Song Quotes

I know I'm stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

You’re a song, a wished-for song.

You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist

('Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. 'Kashmir' is.

Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain

I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy!

My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song.

A day to God is a thousand years, Men walk around with a thousand fears. The true joy of love brings a thousand tears, In the world of desire, there's a thousand snares.

Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems in these songs.

If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.

Funny songs, that’s my ticket. I can’t remember when it started or why it started, it’s just something that I NEEDED.

Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.

There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet, And golden locks in breezy play, Half teasing and half tender, to repeat Her song of May.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

Life is a song-sing it. Life is a game-play it. Life is a challenge-meet it. Life is a dream-realize it. Life is a sacrifice-offer it. Life is love-enjoy it.

I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one of my players said, 'Every time I hear that song I have a bad game.'

Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

I always loved those little creatures [hummingbird], always feel blessed when they appear nearby. There's a magical quality to them. I finally put one in a song.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

The song of the curved line is called happiness.

When my soul was in the lost-and-found You came along to claim it.

I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we're coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

A DJ can't just play one song. It's about playing a set, or how you connect songs in those two hours, and where you place them.

Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.

We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought of centering a song around.

I'm outa here, I'm only playing one song, and I'm not coming back for ten years! And when I come back..!

In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.

The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's real.

We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.

Your new CD is a weed plate, nothin' but love songs, 100% pure garbage, just something to break up buds on.

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.

Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence.

Look at mother nature on the run in the 1970's.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see Bluebirds Singing a song Nothing but bluebirds All day long

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

The road goes on forever and the party never ends.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album