Song Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.

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

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

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

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.

Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.

Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart

I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.

The first song I wrote was called "You" and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. I remember them all because I used to always write terrible poetry. I keep all my notebooks.

Now some they do and some they don't And some you just can't tell And some they will and some they won't With some it's just as well.

Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward thing.

Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.

I remember when I was 14, I went to race in Hungary, and I went to a concert, and they were playing Bob Marley songs, and I thought, "Wow, this guy is so special." It's Marley every time.

I think The Song Remains The Same is such a load of old bollocks.

Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.

I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.

I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on.

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.

I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.

Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be true to yourself, true to your nature.

A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.

Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart.

In itself, I spent a year writing, you know all these different songs and when it came to recording the record, I just pulled out all the tracks I liked the most.

Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person.

However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.

I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.

Wer nicht liebt Wein,Weib und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang. Who loves not woman, wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!

My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.

When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

Man down is a song about a girl who has committed a murder that she regrets and is completely remorseful about.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, but rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.

What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

My songs are like a three-legged dog - you have to get to know them to have any love for them.