Song Quotes
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.
Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and only if he was lying by me Would I lie in my bed once again.
It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.
I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.
I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.
Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
No one wants to wait for tracks to buffer or spend hours searching through a Web site to find their favorite song.
Be On Your Way is one of the favorite songs I've ever written. What a terribly sad song, but what a beautiful melody.
I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements.
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
The songs that you start to write that you are a little scared of can be the ones that you have to tell.
I'd like to do a song that I wrote today about our government's increasing infringement on our right to privacy, but the lyrics mysteriously disappeared from my guitar case.
Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On
I'd love to cover an 'Incubus' song. I don't think anybody in a cowboy hat on a country stage has ever done that, and I'd love to be the first.
I always loved those songs. And with my high tenor, I thought I was pretty good - you know? - almost as good as Dennis Day.
Knowledge is still power -- but today you've got to make sure you know more about your listener than their favorite song.
I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit.
You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.
I'd love to be in Paul McCartney's shoes for a day. I'd love to pick up a guitar and write songs like he does. Or to experience what it might have been like to be a Beatle for a day.
The best songs don't get recorded; the best recordings don't get released; and the best releases don't get played.
If I feel like I'm going too far in one direction, I just can it. It's a weird thing. Some of my songs might be cheesy; I try and keep it light. It's hard to explain.
I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
In the enemy's territory, be as silent as the owl's wings; in friend's territory, be as cheerful as the nightingale's songs.
I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.
The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.
Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
When "Search and Destroy" by the Stooges came on as a Nike shoe commercial, I got physically sick. That song meant the world to me, and I didn't feel this was the way it ought to be used.
I like seeing someone that can sing jazz and then flip over and sing a pop song and then sing a rock song.
I love to write songs and sing them, and I didn't really know much more than that. Somehow it's gotten to the point where a friend can say, "It's very you," and that made me feel good.
I just like a great song. I just wanted to be this true reflection of what is in my heart and it ended up becoming my life which was kind of surreal, but I do enjoy writing for other people.
There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.
But it’s there. Just because I haven’t told anyone doesn’t mean it isn’t there, all the time, lurking in the back of my mind, like one those NSync songs you can’t get out of your head.
I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me funny like elephants!
Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change the melodies a bit.
I've been working hard on a new song, it's titled "Frozen Piggy Pudding". It's about how the government is full of pigs who eat pudding all day. Oh look a frisbee, allo' govna.
If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.
I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.
When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon.
I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.
