Song Quotes

For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake.

You are like a hurricane, there's calm in your eyes, and I'm getting blown away.

Hard to find a better drug than a song you love.

The moments when I first made something, like when I first wrote a song please me so intensely. Everything else after that is just the act of communication.

When the melody touches your heart emotionally and the words hit your brain intellectually, more than likely you'll find you'll have an excellent song to sing.

I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.

Happiness is a sad song.

The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.

I began thinking about the idea of a 24 hour concert. What if you tied songs to certain hours of the day - creating a 24 hour world of lyric and melody. So that was the inspiration for this project.

You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.

Every day is different and improvised. Sometimes, a song can lead to a completely different adventure. You can't control it.

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song.

I don't care what studio I'm in, I don't care what producers is producing it and I don't care what song it is because they taught me those things I feel so protected wherever I go as far as music.

I don't want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la.

I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can.

Oh my love, it's you that I dream of Oh my love, since that day Somewhere in my heart I'm always Dancing with you in the summer rain

But to a higher mark than song can reach, Rose this pure eloquence.

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.

Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.

It's okay not to be okay

You're my favorite part of the day and every morning I look forward to seeing your face.

...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.

I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.

I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.

My life is as good as an Abba song. It’s as good as Dancing Queen.

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.