Song Quotes
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.
I wanted to do a summary of my life and career. There’s been so many different looks, and so many types of songs that have become iconic, so it was just kind of fun to look back on everything
My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim.
My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.
But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.
Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?
I have a song called 'Decisions' that features Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Common. It's about people who have made a decision to really stand by you as friends.
No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says.
Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.
OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.
I really work hard to shape the song so that it's attractive... You don't want to give people the information in an enema.
I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had no reason to want to copy anybody else... All I had was my originality.
I'd like to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs and had a hell of a time.
If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.
But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.
Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it to warm up a lot.
I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
Even though there's reasons to try things that may or may not work, it's still a real intimate way to finish the song with everybody right there in the band just locked in.
You don’t need help to write a song. You just need to get over this experience that bummed you out so bad. The relationship you were in is over, it was over a long time ago, and you need to move on.
It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.
Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.
There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the noise, and you've got your sound...We're musical primitives.
Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now.
Body Electric... It is the first song from my new short film called # Tropico that is coming out in the end of the month.
In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.
Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the truth of those particular emotions.
I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.
The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.
I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?
I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.
In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.
I'm not stuck strictly doing hip-hop. Songs from the dance/electronic scene are my favorite to make and remix, and I like that world.
The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.
Every song is something that I've been through or an emotion I've felt - like falling in love or heartbreak.
I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing.