Song Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

When an angel comes down and takes me away, memories of me and my songs will always stay until the end of time

What is so important is that you play for the artist and for the record and for the song ... everything else falls into place ... my solo has to be a complement to the singer and the song.

My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?

She was born in Baton Rouge, her favorite song was In My Life.

I'd like to be a song and dance man.

It's fun to be able to revisit a song and do something that doesn't really illustrate the song but works tangentially or runs parallel to the song in some way.

My songs are just little letters to me.

I'm aware of my songs. I'm aware of them because they're about true emotions, true feelings, things that matter.

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.

I have so much pride and love for the songs of The Smiths. However, I must ask you, if you come across any Smiths CDs, don't buy them, because all the money goes to that wretched drummer.

Remember, no matter how hard your life is right now, it would be worse if a song by Chicago was playing.

I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip hop to trip hop, house, drum and bass, and experimental and improv and jazz.

I've always had levity in my songs, so I like to turn things over, twist them around, and make fun of myself.

I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song.

Remember to let her into your heart.

And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.

Song "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" is actually about syphilis.

Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.

And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.

I plan to write more songs of my own, especially on behalf of the animals we needlessly raise for food, at their great expense, and at great expense to our precious, deteriorating planet.

I won't be indulging in anger anymore, vehemently and self-righteously singing protest songs, and expecting them to bring peace to me or anyone else.

Truth only means something when it's hard to admit.

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

I like Ministry, but I'm probably never going to make a song that sounds like Ministry.

I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!

At the end of the day, you release music because you believe in the songs and believe that they're honest. That's all you can really hope for.

And hear the pleasant cockoo, loud and long - The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.

I like to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' when I'd doing cardio. But, sometimes I do need good music to get me moving. I like high energy songs by artists like Justin Timberlake and Rihanna.

Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.

The song is just the given. It's how you cover it that matters.

My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

Some songs can wait for years, and then - boom! and explode like a bomb.

Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God.

If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.

The studio's a collaborative environment. I just try to let people bring their own ideas to the songs and see what happens.

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.

Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.

People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!

I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isnt a song that I need to sing.

I mean, roots musicians - we can get old, you know? We can get up there and wear overalls and deliver the songs, we don't have to look any certain way.