Song Quotes

'Don't Cry Daddy' is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, 'I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy'. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.

I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.

I like to sing love songs.

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.

I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value.

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

We're all writing out of a wound, and that's where our song comes from. The wound is singing. We're singing back to those who've been wounded.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

A friend of mine called and said they're interested in having you do a song for the new Pokemon. All my kids are grown up, so I'd heard of it, but I didn't really know what it was.

I've stayed true to my music and I sing heartfelt songs with a message.

I tend to be the one that breaks the mold most often, and thus, I tend to be the one with a lot of outtakes, songs that don't make the record.

I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.

I'm a beat hoarder. I'll record five songs in a year and I still hoard beats.

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.

I'd stop in the middle of a gun fight and sing a song.

American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.

You might also see that some of my playlists are simply two songs on repeat fifteen times, like I’m a psycho getting pumped up to murder the president.

But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.

I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.

We've never performed the song live outside of recording it in the studio. That was a dream come true because Whitney, she's an icon and she's been one of my main mentors in this business.

True love is actually very hard to understand... Everybody is looking for love, everybody is fighting for love... But because they can't bear to say it outloud, they express it through songs

I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

I've tried that love thing for the last time. My heart says no, no! Nobody's supposed to be here, but you came along and changed my mind

four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.

Everything stems from real experiences but I do also have a very vivid imagination. A song lyric gets easily carried away with itself and can end up somewhere I'd never have predicted.

Music is an emotion and it makes you feel a certain way. Some songs make you want to dance, while some make you think. Some songs are positive, while some people see those songs as negative.

I have favourite songs for different things. The diversity of it is the strength.

People looked to Kurt Cobain because his songs captured what they felt before they knew they felt it.

The best songs are stories, and the best singers storytellers. Great singers can make you care about what they're feeling. You have a sense of knowing them.

It does feel really good to sing songs about somebody that I really respect, admire, love, care about and am so passionately attracted to after all this time.

My head translates emotions into song. Songwriting is cathartic for me.

And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.

I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love songs, I would use genderless pronouns, like "dear" and "darling" - like some kind of granny!

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.

I don't think I'd be able to flat-out write a pop song and make it satisfying to me. I'm ready to make a consistent sound in whatever way I can.

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.

Like a wave on the ocean I will always come right back to you.

If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism.

As a kid, I always had a super vivid imagination, like "Man, I like those shoes, but they should've made them in purple" or like, "Man, I wonder how people make songs."

I want a song that raises the hair on the back of my neck when I sing it live and I want to feel it every time.

Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man.

I can't sing a love song Like the way it's meant to be Well, I guess I'm not that good anymore But baby, that's just me

It's a really fun hobby to set imagery to music, and finding the right songs for that. Your favorite song in the world might not work at all... for one reason or another.

No matter what you do for a living you should get paid for your work, whether you're washing dishes or recording songs.