Song Quotes
Said the condor to the preying mantis, we're gonna lose this place just like we lost Atlantis.
After playing so many songs in churches for eight or nine years, I've learned what songs people react to. Then I just had fun with the arrangements. That's how this album came together.
Be merry all, be merry all, With holly dress the festive hall; Prepare the song, the feast, the ball, To welcome merry Christmas.
I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.
And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.
I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.
Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.
This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.
A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.
I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.
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?
Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was song.
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.
I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.
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 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.
Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
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
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it.
I write songs from the point of view I had at a time;I'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point of view.That only ends in disaster.
I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.
The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.
"Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.' Which is why he was driving a Rolls-Royce."
You're just like, "I like doing this - it's something I have a lot of passion for." You happen to do it, you enjoy songwriting, and eventually if you're writing enough songs, then you fall into it.
Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be writing songs or listening to other people's stuff.
I've never really been a big fan of comedy songs, frankly. I think I enjoy the emotional payoff that the best music achieves to want to waste too much time turning good music into a joke.
All ages serve and worship the same God, gather under the same gospel and add to the collective song that praises the faithfulness of God as each generation shares in his promises to us.
Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention!
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.
The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.
Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.