Song Quotes

Quit shouting those rerun songs at me.

I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song.

My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.

... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.

When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.

A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.

I lost my virginity to a pumpkin when I was 23. Back then I was convinced I was actually a Vegetable, hell, that's what the song is about.

Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that, there's his voice - an instrument I have coveted for 15 years.

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.

A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.

My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

I wanna be the smile you put on your face. I wanna be your hands when you say your grace. I wanna be whatever is your favorite place, oh I just wanna be close

Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.

Words are the instruments you play to the song of your ideas, you're just playing covers.

Senorita was fun to sing, but I don't really have a favorite. When you write a bunch of songs, they're like your babies. You don't pick favorites.

At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.

Almost every song on OK Computer revolves around how I am afraid computers get up at night and attempt to choke me with their wires.*doesn't laugh*

Imagination is my best friend.

In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody.

The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.

It starts with an "I" And ends with a "U" I got a feelin' Are you feelin' it too

I sang those old gospel songs for my mother, and she said, is that you? And I said, yes, ma'am. And she came over and put her arms around me and said, God's got his hands on you.

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.

I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part.

The drumming helps a lot when I'm producing songs or writing songs. My knowledge of drums helps more in that aspect, (although) I don't know, man; I'm not great at any of them.

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.

The reason I don't play any of the old songs is because I really honor my old band, and I think that those songs are best served within the context of that band.

Sometimes, I ask myself how any other singer could substitute the inspiration of god in their songs

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.

Sometimes I write from personal experience, but so much depends on what mood I'm in. If I'm in a good mood, I'll write happier songs.

It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. ~Song of the Sparrow

I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a year. ... The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

Rather than recallin these flowersthe fragrance of the past,I would like to hear this nightingale's voice,to know if his song is as sweet.

I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.

When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.

Both this song ['Black Skinhead'], 'I Am a God' and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn't let me into his first Saint Laurent show.

Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero.

A good song stays in your head because it's catchy, a great song stays because it means something to you.

I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.

You can speak your mind But not on my time.

Songwriting is the way of perpetual want. Songwriters are the blessed/cursed people. You will never have a moment's peace in your life. You will always be wanting the next song.