Song Quotes
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 think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.
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.
For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
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."
No matter what you do for a living you should get paid for your work, whether you're washing dishes or recording songs.
Look, I got 11,052 songs on my iPod. Cyndi Lauper, Guns N' Roses, Geto Boys, N.W.A. push shuffle and anything will come on.
If you thought Stairway to Heaven was a long song, dear god you should listen to it played on a lute.
Alas, so all things now do hold their peace: Heaven and earth disturbed in no thing: The beasts, the air, the birds their song do cease; The nightes chare the stars about doth bring.
A scrip on my back, and a staff in my hand, I march on in haste through an enemy's land; The road may be rough, but it cannot be long; And I'll smooth it with hope, and I'll cheer it with song.
The bottom line is, if every single platinum song right now wasn't auto-tuned, then I would be like, "I can't be a rapper."
I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.
I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.
My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.
I always look at my favourite photographs or favourite movies by James Bidgood or Sofia Coppola before I write my songs - they put me in the right frame of mind.
What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song.
All the hills and vales along Earth is bursting into song, And the singers are the chaps Who are going to die perhaps.
Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.
One night I was sitting listening to some Hank Williams songs - and they'll change your life in a hurry.
Festivals are a time to play the songs people know and are looking forward to hearing.
Ah, to be a bird. To fly the skies, sing my song, and best of all occasionally peck someone's eyes out.
Just when I thought it couldnt get no hotter I fell in love with the farmer's daughter
What were you going to do tonight?" "I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff." "Who's that?" "A dead Russian.
But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.
The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.
I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he'd be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one of mine.
The easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her.
My two favorite musicals growing up in were 'Annie' and 'Sweeney Todd,' and my best friend and I would sing all the songs when I was a kid.
I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.
When you sit and write a song, sit and write the best song you can write, just try and write it and be connected.
I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them
Music is what feelings sound like out loud. I sing songs that speak from my heart. They tell my story, how I feel.
By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy
With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else.
I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like.
The Treorchy Male Choir - the very name is a song! May I thank the Choir, past and present, for all the glorious music-making they have shared with us.