Song Quotes

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

You love someone because they sing a song only your heart can understand.

I maintain that the best song is the one that ends up on the album. So whether I've written it or I haven't, I'm very comfortable with both.

I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.

Every song will be a video. Its going to be very spectacular.

What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

It's more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you're in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does.

But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.

The voice will always be heard, even if the song is very different.

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.

I don't really have any "must work withs," but I would never refuse if a celebrity or fellow musician came along who is willing to write or sing or play on a Lita song.

But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

It would be so nice to write songs that end up being timeless.

Every man is the hero of his own song.

I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New York thing. I can do art songs with other artists and it's seamless.

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

I have enough rhythm to blend at this point. I have enough rhythm to blend one song into another. But man, I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.

Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.

I'm not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I've been through enough to do it right.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

I can't stand to hear my own voice. If one of my songs comes on in a café, I'll run out right away and come back with the police.

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about heartache and heartbreak.

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

I usually have a song in my head. I'm thinking music, I'm thinking lyrics. Music helps me get to those moments. The moments between the moments.

Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again.

People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.

It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

I play the piano a lot at home, I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage... I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.

Some songs go super-quick; some take a really long time.

'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.

And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to compose a poem, an honest verse of longing / Or a simple song of hope.

Nothing is more frustrating to me than putting a song on an album and regret putting it on there. I'm excited that there are no songs on 'Tailgates & Tanlines' that I'm iffy about.

Sure, I can sing a country song, but so can a lot of people.

I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.