Song Quotes
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.
My songs, well, they are sad, but in all of them the person singing them - me or whoever - is actually still trying and hasn't given up yet.
Place a name upon the night One to set your heart alight And to make the darkness bright Paint the sky with stars.
This song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'We hate you, please die.'
I'm tired of playing little girls. I'm a woman now. I can't run around forever being the Little Miss Fix It who bursts into song. I want to get out of Hollywood and get a fresh approach.
You become acutely aware, if you're touring a lot, that you need new songs to invigorate the live show. And make it interesting for yourself, too.
It would be impossible for me to give you a list of the top 10 songs that shake my life. Far more music went in to it than just ten.
Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, and helped change and develop my taste.
It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.
There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.
I'm a big fan of songs like Joe Cocker's 'You Are So Beautiful' and Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight' - songs that go straight to the point.
There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.
For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't be described except through a sound.
I wanted to have all the songs to be the strongest they could be and all the choruses to be catchy. One of those records you could put in your car and just drive and not have to change it.
What makes a great song - you dont put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.
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.
As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.
And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter.
It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.
Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle.
I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.
When stuff gets hard, and you're feeling real down about everything or in a cark space, a song can bring you out of it.
Things that Never Cross a Mans Mind is probably one of my favorite upbeat tempo songs because it is just a sassy song, and its a fun song.
We got the bubble headed bleached blonde comes on at five, She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye, It's interesting when people die give us dirty laundry...
And Honey, I miss you and I'm being good. And I'd love to be with you if only I could.
My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.
I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at the balcony in the back and sang the song.
And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man in the moon.
A big mistake a lot of filmmakers do is they like, "We cut our whole ending to a Rolling Stones song." You better find a new ending then, because unless you have $2 million for that song.
You have to bounce in life with joy. Your strength lies in your smiles and your songs.
Usually a song being hard to write is a sign that the song isn't good enough. It should be like a good kiss. Effortless and smooth.
Unless you can feel when the song is done No other is sweet in its rhythm; Unless you can feel when left by one That all men else go with him.
If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
