Song Quotes

Dweezil and I are going on tour with the band probably starting in the middle of February for a month probably playing a few songs from my new record and then I'll continue on after that tour

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.

Music is also one of the great heart openers. Sometimes, you hear the lyrics of a song and you dance, laugh, smile, or perhaps even cry.

A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.

No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula... to an extent, there isn't a science to writing great songs, I suppose.

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.

When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!

There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

I think I'm just trying to be myself and write songs that are honest. That's what I hear in artist's that I like.

A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.

A love song is just a caress set to music.

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns" (After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero' by Mariah Carey)

Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.

In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs.

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.

There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.

When you love a song so much you have to sing, you know how you feel - it releases something in you that resonates as true, whether it's James Brown or Joni Mitchell.

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.

Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.

The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.

Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that day, it came up that extra 50 percent.

I started making music professionally when I was 14. I did songs on that program GarageBand, and then I'd put demos up on MySpace with my friends.

In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative.

Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.

I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.

When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me

A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen

So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.

They [The Beatles ] were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs before that.

I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.

I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.

Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.

I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them.

Even when I have someone playing the song I give them the idea. I'm learning. I'm getting better over the years.

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.

I am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same.

The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs.

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.