Song Quotes

I rode an elevator with a guy who was whistling the tune of 'this is the song that never ends'. Putting that on me? Come on dude.

I just like a great song. I just wanted to be this true reflection of what is in my heart and it ended up becoming my life which was kind of surreal, but I do enjoy writing for other people.

I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me funny like elephants!

Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change the melodies a bit.

I've been working hard on a new song, it's titled "Frozen Piggy Pudding". It's about how the government is full of pigs who eat pudding all day. Oh look a frisbee, allo' govna.

I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.

I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.

There aren't that many songs that pay homage to the DJ. They are the ones getting artists' music out there. They are the ones getting the club popping. But no one's giving them any love.

It's fun to look backwards and be like, "Oh, this song never really worked live before but now it will sound cool with this lineup."

Everybody loves a sad ballad because it's cathartic. For artists, in a lot of ways, that's sort of our therapy sessions is when you're singing a song.

Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.

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.

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.

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 was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.

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

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.

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.

Writing the songs is always emotional and most of the vocals on there are the first three takes from the demos, because they give so much more. You're in that moment, so it speaks for itself.

I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.

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

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

The way I was singing the songs was jazz

Who among us has not sought peace in a song?

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

There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living.

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 always have my own music on my iPod, especially songs that I am going to record. Besides that, I have lots of others ranging from Chris Brown to Beyonce', Michael Jackson, Rascal Flatts and Adele.

We need music the most when we’re feeling things really intensely. I think the most intense times in your life are when you’re either falling in love or losing it

I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.

You have every right to a beautiful life.

Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin

Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.

Apart from pleasure, beauty also kindles imagination, hope and encouragement. If beauty ceased to exist, we would, in a very real sense, cease to exist--for we would be no longer who we are.

A good river is nature's life work in song.

We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10

You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?" I long to live out this moment in real life.

This world has need of song and sword.

Music is not my life. My life is music.

Loving a man shouldn't have to be this rough

A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.

Between lovers, betrayal is always the worst sin.

She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or kiss him. And never know which was right and which was wrong and which was madness.

The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.