Song Quotes

Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.

I bring my past I bring my future I bring my rights and I bring my song I stand atop the Hacienda and shout We belong Here. We belong.

I don't think people hear my songs and think, "Well this is a way to make a bunch of money."

With the 'iCarly' soundtrack, I didn't get to write any of the songs. I just picked songs that meant a lot to me that I really liked.

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.

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.

I always sing Adele in the shower. But everyone should know you never sing an Adele song in public because no one's better than Adele.

A song is a song and a hit record can change a life.

I thought my Jesus Piece was so harmless 'Till I see a picture of a shorty armless

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.

My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

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.

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.

The song "Sing for the Submarine" presents my dream world, which is way different from my waking world. It's set in the future and it's post-apocalyptic.

The song Cant Look Back Now by the Weepies reminds me of the entire Life Unexpected experience.

My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.

My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

I have to feel connected before I record and the song has to spark something inside me. Very few songs do that. I guess it's a good process because I love all of my music.

Every word that I say, every song that I sing, and literally every move that I make [ in Chicaho musical] has much purpose.

The more spastic song structure I have, the more I hate it afterwards.

The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.

If I hear one of my songs by anybody, it's a dream come true every time for me as a songwriter, because I want to write a song, I want to write a song that the world can sing and will always sing.

I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too.

As I've evolved in life my writing process has taken a turn. I'm inspired by everyday life. I could be in the middle of something and hear a commercial. I enjoy songs writing themselves.

I definitely like to go out and dance. I'm a big vibe person when it comes to music so a song really has to make me feel a certain way in order for me to fall in love with it.

I write titles of songs a lot. sometimes I'll end up writing a song that I don't have a title for and I'll say, 'Oh, this goes with that title.

I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.

Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.

We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside.

All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.

I do know what my songs are about.

I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called Ooh La La, that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.

I like to think about what the song is saying, the story of it, and conveying the mood of that to the audience. But at the same time, sharing through interacting with them and engaging them.

As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.

The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.

After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill.

I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.