Song Quotes

How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.

Mem'ry All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days Life was beautiful then.

I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.

I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow.

You explore beautiful songs & create your own interpretation of them.

My most favorite entrance music of all time... it's that, "You're my obsession, you're my obsession" song [Animotion's "Obsession"].

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.

Father, may my song today be a sweet sound in Your ears-even if in Yours alone. Amen.

Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.

There is a part of me that likes things that are epic, that's why I think a lot of my songs go to these soundscapes that are cinematic, because I really like the epic storytelling.

Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs

A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.

I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs - the best popular music ever composed.

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

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.

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

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.

"Nasty Man" isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.

When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.

All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.

The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. You just have to open up your heart and not be afraid to get them out.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

Songs Like Mony Mony aren't really written, they're sort of hanging in space - waiting to be found - I'm just thankful we found this one.

I've got the moves like Jagger.

When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.

I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.

A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.

Give us Direction; the best of goodwill; Put us in touch with fair winds. Sing to us softly, hum the evening's song. Tell us what the blacksmith has done for you.

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.

All those ridiculous songs about love - I finally understood.

I've written 90 percent of the songs in my career, on all my albums.

I'm friends with [exes] and they hear the songs. I can honestly say I don't have any exes I hate. They're artists in some fashion so they understand.

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in a song or a letter to someone.

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood" is a standard; "Call Me" is a standard.

I don't think Neil Young has a beautiful voice but it's something that grabs you and the songs are so good.

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.

Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing.

I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around the edges of good taste.

I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.

Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.

I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'

I don't know if any genuine meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.

There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.