Song Quotes
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.
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
Music is what feelings sound like out loud. I sing songs that speak from my heart. They tell my story, how I feel.
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
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'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.
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.
The easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her.
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 singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.
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.
What were you going to do tonight?" "I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff." "Who's that?" "A dead Russian.
Just when I thought it couldnt get no hotter I fell in love with the farmer's daughter
Ah, to be a bird. To fly the skies, sing my song, and best of all occasionally peck someone's eyes out.
Festivals are a time to play the songs people know and are looking forward to hearing.
One night I was sitting listening to some Hank Williams songs - and they'll change your life in a hurry.
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.
All the hills and vales along Earth is bursting into song, And the singers are the chaps Who are going to die perhaps.
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song.
What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.
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.
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.
When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.
Ohhh, I'm in luv, I'm in luv I'm in luv, I'm in luv wit chu And there ain't nothin nobody can say cuz You're the one for me baby
Songs, stories are beyond value; they are the memory and wisdom of a people, the particular individual rivers of the sea of life which constitutes us all.
Simple Plan's trademark is pretty easy. By the time the song ends, you can sing it. It doesn't take 20 listens. It's hard to write those songs but we try our best.
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'I mean, [Kanye West] is called me a b***h in his songs. That's just, like, what they say. I never once think, [gasping] 'What a derogatory word! How dare he?' Not in a million years.'
We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.
Well, everybody's a drummer, I'll tell you that right now. Everybody knows what's right rhythmically for a song, so there were always suggestions flying my way.
Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
Let your throat-song be clear and strong enough to make an emperor fall full-length suppliant, at the door.
During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.
I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with other people's songs.
I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.
There's a whole range of sources of inspiration for the drawings and stories. They come from dreams, hallucinations, pop songs, or other things I see in the world around me.
