Song Quotes

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

Who among us has not sought peace in a song?

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?

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.

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

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.

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".

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

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

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!

I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.

If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep.

Its quite there sonically; a strong representation of what the songs on our records are like. It's very loud and our set is based around containing as much energy and dynamics as possible.

When you tell a story and connect with somebody through an emotion that's why they like songs.

The Beatles mean so much to so many people, you know? Everybody has at least one song of The Beatles that's one of their favorite songs of all time.

I can't jump into other people's shoes, I can only speak for me. My songs are pretty much sermons put to music.

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

I don't sing a song unless I feel it. The song don't tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe in what I'm doing.

Sad songs seem to work for me, but I don't want to be redundant; I want to add a little flavor.

Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.

I don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs.

Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person or something you've experienced, just think of a dog or cat that you love.

Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.

As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement.

I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.

You really do kind of learn a lot about a person when you watch and listen to the songs that mean something to them.

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

I play my own music. Fans come out to hear the songs I've made.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.

The way I was singing the songs was jazz

I like messing up the song, doing some improvisation. And I like running around the room with the mic.

To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

I love the pursuit of songwriting, and I've seen what songs can do in people's lives. Some of the stories that come back from songs flying around the globe are so encouraging.

I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.