Song Quotes

A lot of philosophy is bull***t, but a lot of it is what we write songs about too. And it's organizing your thoughts, organizing your intellect.

In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.

As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.

Sometimes the song that takes the littlest amount of time are sometimes the best songs you ever do.

You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.

I finally feel content with my work. My fruit has started to ripen. I'm able to dissect emotion properly and distill it into a song that reverberates in a truthful place.

I got tired of playing other people's songs.

So if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.

My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.

I cannot learn creation from other people; I've got to do it myself. Now, honestly, I regret not studying - I don't know about harmonies, or anything, so if I'm composing a song, it's really hard.

O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!

So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen.

Once more the liberal year laughs out O'er richer stores than gems or gold: Once more with harvest song and shout Is nature's boldest triumph told.

I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.

Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.

I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.

I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

We gonna touch the sky.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

A song can't be completely serious if you rhyme melodic with alcoholic.

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.

My children have become popular, and they show a tremendous love for the public. They're professionals.

I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.

I'd much rather be playing songs than talking to people.

This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.

Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.

Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in English.

It's [Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life.