Song Quotes

There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.

I'd say it ["I Can't Drive 55"] has probably been the most successful song I've ever been involved with, including any Van Halen songs.

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

The Madiba song may have ended, but its melody lingers on.

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.

Yes, I did lock myself in my room for about two years and write some songs and things like that. But I don't feel like I missed out on a whole lot.

I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever.

When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.

I would go on the iTunes chart and see the hottest songs, then I'd cover them. People would go on YouTube and search for those songs. That's how I got my views. I'd post two or three songs a week.

Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My songs don't have a lot of bridges because lyric poetry never had them.

Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.

Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.

This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.

We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side.

Lots of people say it's the song. For me, it's not always the song - there's something bigger: the spirit of an artist.

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!

I once heard someone doing a karaoke version of my song. That was pretty funny.

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.

The boarders have changed. My vocals explore different elements and you know it was really important for me to transfer the atmosphere of the songs with my voice.

Sometimes an unexpected chord change can be the difference between a good song and a great song.

My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.

Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it.

In the order named, these are the hardest to control - wine, women and song.

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

Summertime And the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.

I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

I achieved something specially different with Love To Love You Baby and I Feel Love. These songs will endure.

Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!

In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work.

We were writing songs about girls when we still thought girls had cooties.

'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.

For a heart without love is a song with no words And a tune to which no one is listening So your heart must give love and you'll find that You shine like rain on the leaves you'll be glistening.

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough

Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

I think a great song appeals to older and younger people and it makes you think. It's also honest, and it also doesn't hurt if it's fun to sing along to.

I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.

A good song reminds us what we're fighting for.

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

I'm not into that whole Satanic thing. It's just something to fall back on if you don't have much imagination. Singing you fiftieth song about having lunch with Satan--I'm not into it. It's silly.

I believe truly that Satan cannot endure it and so slips out of the room - more or less - when there is a true song.

You give out the words and then sing them. You give out the words, you know, and the people can hear what you're giving out, and they sing that song or that line and they do the same thing again.

Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her heart may know What secret makes them so. Love, only Love.

Our Feast gatherings, which has spread all over the world, is attended by young people - and they love to sing worship songs.

I grew up with so many different songs that the ones that are fun to play are the ones I want to do.

I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz" but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The Star-Spangled Banner" so far as music is concerned.