Song Quotes

You get committed with what you put in songs. It made me wary of who and what I include, because that's there forever.

Singin' in the Rain was most excellent if you like movies where people burst into song and tap-dance. Which I do, though not as much as I like movies where people don't.

He made me mess the song up when I looked at him... We can show the kids the tape and say, "Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other."

In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech, but they were one.

I find I always throw limbs here and there in my lyrics. I kind of put my physical self into the songs.

The best songs don't get recorded; the best recordings don't get released; and the best releases don't get played.

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.

If I've got the right songs, I can weave a spell over everyone.

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 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.

Knowledge is still power -- but today you've got to make sure you know more about your listener than their favorite song.

I always loved those songs. And with my high tenor, I thought I was pretty good - you know? - almost as good as Dennis Day.

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.

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 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.

The songs that you start to write that you are a little scared of can be the ones that you have to tell.

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements.

Be On Your Way is one of the favorite songs I've ever written. What a terribly sad song, but what a beautiful melody.

No one wants to wait for tracks to buffer or spend hours searching through a Web site to find their favorite song.

I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life.

People want more real artistes. They want girls who can actually sing and play an instrument and write their own songs - that's not fake and manufactured anymore".

All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the rhythmic changes there are.

The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.

I think very frequently, musicians become a victim of every song they sing. I like all kinds of recreation. It's aggressive. I want to be part of everything.

The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.

I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place or a season of life like no other art form can.

I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of... I guess 'hope' is the right word?

Who among us has not sought peace in a song?

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.

And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

Every eye sees its own special vision; every ear hears a most different song. In each man's troubled heart, an incision would reveal a unique, shameful wrong.

I've never written a song about DNA or anything that I work on. But I just think that DIY aspect, and the creativity and the belonging and acceptance is what drew me in.

They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.

The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs.

Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

It takes me forever to write songs most of the time.

Bubba shot the jukebox last night, said it played a sad song and it made him cry.

It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff; a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.

I like them all. They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.

[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.

Generally I don't listen to sad songs if I'm sad. I listen to happy songs.

But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.

I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in.