Song Quotes

I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.

A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music.

So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.

I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.

I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

Broadway is not just the song and the shows; it's the individual performers and the community.

I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.

Soup is the song of the hearth... and the home.

Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.

There's always this weird dark humor within a lot of Depeche Mode songs that people miss, tongue-in-cheek and also very British.

In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.

I was a grill cook at McDonalds for a little bit. I did landscape for a little bit. I played a lot in the bar scene, I played countless sets of acoustic songs in that arena.

It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.

It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.

You put a big bird in a small cage, it'll sing you a song

The beauty of music is that everyone hears it their own way, and every song you hear leaves an impression on you that alters the way you hear everything from that point on.

When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.

The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.

We got a new song called 'Ashes in Your Mouth,' and it is NOT about a joint falling apart.

I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

If I hear a song like "Time After Time." I'm sittin' there lookin' at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin' this song. I said, "God damnnnnn!"

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs that must be sung.

Love is the song of the soul singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.

I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.

A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called 'True Friend'.

A long time ago, I made the commitment to dedicate at least one song per album to God. He has been very good to me, and never for one minute do I want Him to think I've forgotten, because I haven't.

You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the blanks.

Where most people looked forward to the weekend to go out and yie one on, my idea of a good time was to figure out a Scorpions song

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.

I don't believe in false memories, like I don't believe in false songs.

Not all the songs are real events, but I do write about stuff that is close to my heart and it comes out one way or another.

I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.

The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

She is amazingly creative, bringing so much more to a song than just a singer. She is a first-class musician and the most gracious person in the world.

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?