Song Quotes

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

I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.

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.

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.

I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.

I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.

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.

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.

My favorite song is Eminem's 'Rap God.' That joint is just incredible, It's six-and-a-half minutes of him just crushing the whole game. It's so different from what I hear if I listen to the radio.

I'm glad I got to introduce myself to America by doing a Britney [Spears] song, haha!

I was genuinely happy when I wrote that song [Training Wheels] and very in love. That's a very rare emotion to evoke out of me.

It's like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist

I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across, in order to communicate a story or an emotion.

There are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too

Italy doesn't need American football. For what? I've been. Wine, women, song, shopping, unbelievable vistas and landscapes... You need Titans vs. Panthers? Uh, no.

I put myself into character for my songs.

Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.

I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.

I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.

When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.

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

If you don't like my songs, don't hear it. If you don't like my music videos, don't watch it. If you hate me, I don't care.

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.

Make every song is your best song to date.

If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.

With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

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.

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

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

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.

I'm very parasitic, from my own experiences. I just go and mine my dirty laundry, you know, and go through it until I find something that's interesting enough to me to write a song about.

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

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.

Love is a battlefield.

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.

Each song, you're telling a story and acting.

I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.

The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.

Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.

I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all. I'm still planning to write better songs.

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.

Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.

Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!

Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was so fun!