Song Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

Some of my favorite songs--and I don't know if this is the right terminology--are white-boy classics.

If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.

A lot of songs are inspiration and help people through pain, grief and loss.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.

All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent.

It's amazing to know that 5 years ago I was writing songs in a basement in the ghetto and now I'm writing for Michael Jackson. I'd be a fool not to say it's a dream come true.

I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

Don Quixote was a song for a 1969 Michael Douglas movie called Hail Hero! I wrote the title song for the film and they also used the Don Quixote one I had submitted.

I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

River Song: Right, I have questions. But number one is this: what in the name of sanity have you got on your head? The Doctor: It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.

When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death. And neither one particularly appeals to me.

When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.

Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, 'How does it feel?' And that always leads to love songs. It just does.

Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood

Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next. It's like asking you to sing a line of Happy Birthday and then Goodnight Irene - assuming you know the words to both those songs

The worst thing for a singer/songwriter is to run out of songs.

I can turn heartbreak into songs that help other people

I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.

I understand why people get desensitized and roll their eyes when they hear a protest song, or even a politician making some flowery speech. It doesn't really change anything.

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.

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