Song Quotes

When I find myself having that much trouble with a song or a character or a story, I tend to move on.

Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

When you do a song new live on stage, it's kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up a bit. It's still a little bit stiff until you really thrashed at it for a few weeks.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I just think if the song's good, sing it. I don't care who's doing it. I don't care if it's a country act. I don't care if it's a rock act. If the song's good, sing it.

I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.

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

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

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 sort of just wrote the songs, the way I wanted to write them, sing them the way I wanted to sing them, perform the way I wanted to perform.

I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

New songs are why artists go on the road. That's why I go on the road. It's a three-prong play. Writing: You're intrigued. Recording: It brings it to life. And then you want to share it.

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.

Even if it's just a little thing, something like a song, there's still that sort of common language, that common denominator that we can all relate to.

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

If I could be a doctor and save lives I would, but I can't so I sing songs.

Writing a song is a personal thing, and you have to have a lot of trust to try things and not be embarrassed.

Breath of the winds; dancing flame; peace of the earth; song of the waves.

I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.

[My favourite song is] "All Along the Watchtower." The Jimi Hendrix cover.

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

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.

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

We don't have to miss each other, come over We don't have to fix each other, come over We don't have to say forever, come over You don't have to stay forever, come over

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

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

If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon.

How soft indeed the song of butterflies eating.

Don't worry, be happy! Just like the song. So simple yet so true!

We try to write the best songs ever, and they come out kind of funny.

“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors.

I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here' guy, Nelly.

I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.

When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

Everyone is here on earth as an artist; to tell his particular story or sing her irreplaceable song; to leave a unique creative signature.

I have the skills to pay the bills; you know, I can really sing, and write great songs.

We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.

When you write songs, you try to tap into something that isn't straightforward in your head. Whatever you're feeling most strongly about usually comes out in your writing.

Politics are always involved, even in my love songs.

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.

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".

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

Every day, I hear a song and I think, This would be great to cover on Glee. I like Led Zeppelin, of course, and Pink Floyd, Alice in Chains.

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

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

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.