Song Quotes

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles

I'm not supposed to miss you, I'm not supposed to care

Poets sing our human music for us.

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.

When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

If your songs connect with the fans and they pump their fists in the air and go "Yeah!!" that's when a song really works. That's the electric church of it. The glory hallelujah of it.

The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.

I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.

I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's full of voices and songs and bad things.

Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.

The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.

If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event.

It's in the films and songs and all your magazines. It's everywhere that you may go, the devil's radio.

My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it.

I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place.

I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound, in my mind, like I haven't written it. That's when I'm satisfied.

There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.

When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered.

Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee.

We gonna touch the sky.

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.

I wasnt thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

I know this song!’ Rosie laughed. ‘If you didn’t, that’d be the final proof that you’re from Mars.

I knew when I wrote the line “light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson” [from the song “Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star.

Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.

[P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song.

I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.

All songs are about shagging, you can't deny it

We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

"Dead upon the field of glory," Hero fit for song and story.

Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

The song can be a little bit more of the mystery and leave the whole thing open ended. But there's something really gratifying about saying exactly what you mean.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.

I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

Pain is a common emotion in many of my songs mainly because I often don't know other ways to express it adequately. In my songs I wrestle with the things that I don't understand.

The first song is called 'London.' It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime.

New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.

I try to write songs just for the song itself. I don't try and think about where it's going to end up, that way you're writing for the good of the song.

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love.