Song Quotes

Music that was made in the 60s and 70s did come from a really soulful place. The seed for the songs written in the 90s were planted in those songs, even though they were samples.

Sometimes performing someone else's song is more difficult than writing your own.

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.

I got a new song called "The Plug" and the hook says "I'm the plug/I'm connected to everything you love.

I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.

I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.

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

I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.

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

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.

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.

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

'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for the fans to hear that one.

I do have a favorite Zeppelin song, Larry, Black Dog.

I play the living hell out of my guitars daily, and as sure as the sun rises in the east, killer licks, ideas, grooves, patterns and songs erupt every time.

I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.

When I first started writing the album, "Cry Baby" was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all of these personal insecurities that I had for a long time.

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.

The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

The little I am exposed to hurts my feelings. The only things I can really control are my songs and my behavior. The rest? If I focused on it, that would lead to insanity.

Love is the answer, said the songs, and that's OK. It was OK, I supposed, as an answer. But no more than that. It was not a solution; it wasn't really even an answer, just a reply.

It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.

Where you go, I go, What you see, I see, I know I'd never be me without the security, Are your loving arms keeping me from harm Put your hands in my hand & we'll stand.

If you want to put out a song that you wrote yesterday tomorrow, go on Twitter, type in a new URL, and give it to the people!

I wanted us to have a friendly relationship [with Kanye West]. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did.

It's one of the craziest feelings to be on stage and know that you were sitting on your bedroom floor when that song came to be and now there's an arena full of people singing it.

I won’t sell my songs for no TV Ad.

I watched a rose-bud very long Brought on by dew and sun and shower, Waiting to see the perfect flower: Then when I thought it should be strong It opened at the matin hour And fell at even-song.

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

I've always found it pretty difficult to write a happy song.

When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.

I'm recording freely, and if I make a song, I release it immediately, so I'm more likely to believe in one song at a time as opposed to albums.

You should vote for Neoprene Byzantine in the Hot Hundred, they're really sweet guys and that Moscow song is just wow! Hurry guys voting closes really soon mwah!

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.

My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.

Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen; Glorious the martyr's gore.

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.