Song Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

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

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.

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

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

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

Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

Bittersweet is kind of my own favourite style because I want to be able to cry to the same song that I also can laugh to.

My dad is adorably optimistic, positive, pie-in-the-sky. He thinks every new song I write is my best. He sells T-shirts at my merchandise stands and hands out guitar picks to fans.

I do not think that you can be changing the end of a song or a story like that, as though it were quite separate from the rest. I think the end of a story is part of it from the beginning.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

I enjoy incorporating different elements of music that I enjoy listening into my songs. I want to give what feels good to me while never compromising my message, which is Jesus is my Lord and Savior.

I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.

I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I've got to do something with you.

I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.

When I was a kid my Dad never let me sing Patsy Cline songs for one simple reason: they've already been done.

I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

I want to do music that holds the heart of five members and send a message to my fans with the song.

I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier.

Over to the jukebox I staggered for a love song to scatter my body before her.

The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.

So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.

I am not the person who is singing I am the silent one inside. . . . I am not my house, my car, my songs They are only stops along my way. . . .

My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.

I like songs that are simple.

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.