Song Quotes

I have really been blessed in my career with some wonderful songwriters and in turn, songs.

I didn't know children's songs could be this deadly.

Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By.

I soared above the song birds And never heard them sing I lived my life in winter And then you brought the spring

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

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.

Even in the sad songs, I want people to know that it won't always be like that.

The thing with me is I'd rather have my cult following than just have a huge song. I haven't had one album or one official single release, but I probably got 500 songs out in people's collection.

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

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

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

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

What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.

[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.

Let there be songs to fill the air.

I just saw Twilight on TV, for the first time, a few days ago, and, when my song came on, I was just thinking that is so bazaar that I actually had a song in the movie.

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

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

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.

Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances

I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

I love writing songs.

Dancing to a great song with great friends and lots of laughter makes me come alive.

That song ["Don't Tell Me"] didn't take us anywhere, and I know why now. It wasn't what Van Halen fans wanted. It showed the darkness of Van Halen, and basically the end of the band.

They write songs about California girls for a reason.

I like albums that knit together, where the songs relate to one another and intertwine.

I love our industry. I love the song. I love the voice. I love it. Not necessarily my voice. But I care about the song and the voice.

I missed being on great songs.

A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than screaming.

One of my favorite songs I've ever done is "Who Says," and I was 17 when I recorded that song. It was just so exactly what I felt, during that time. That's when I knew how powerful music is.

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

When I enter a club and hear my song being played, I feel like it's not really my song and when I see people dancing to my song, I feel like jumping up on stage and treating them to drinks.

You can write that it's because I still like Justin. Sexy back means sexiness. Did Strong Baby give off the same sexy feeling as my song now? I write it according to the feeling I get.

What I always look for in just about any band or artists I sign is their songs.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

It is my heart that's late, it is my song that's flown.

Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.

I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.

I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine.

I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from A Time To Love are the most appropriate for the statement I wanted to make.

I never made promises lightly There may have been some that I've broken But I swear in the days still left We will walk in fields of gold

"I'm Black". I think that's the best song I ever made in my whole life.

I think about every song is pretty much raw emotion - even if it's not specifically about topic there's songs like "All I Know Is Pain" and "Green Piece of Paper".

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.

It's actually harder to write a fun song.

I am so crazy with my music taste and I'm so .... I mean, I'll listen to a song. I'll become obsessed with it and then I'm on to the next one. It's just very inconsistent.

Spending a lot of time alone, gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me the time to write songs.