Song Quotes

I never put myself in a box. I like to have various different types of songs and different genres and situational songs. No matter is going on, I have something for that time or era.

Everything I do is about setting up for the next. I think that my confidence and belief in myself as well as the music and trusting my judgment of my songs really grew the most.

As of now they are still very young so that has come in the form of dress up, make believe and singing songs, but we will always support our girls in their choices and help them to dream big.

The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling."

There's no way to learn how to write a hit song. There's no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.

A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.

In the end, we shall recognize our song and sing it well. You may feel a little warbly at the moment, but so have all the great singers. Just keep singing and you’ll find your way home.

The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice. It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.

Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.

I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that.

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

I think I've always approached making albums pretty much the same way. I'm just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren't the same thing over and over.

I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.

He's written some great songs. I thought that "Blues Man" was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

I've had several working-man songs that I like.

For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."

The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.

I started writting songs when I was really little because there were things I could say through songs that I couldn't verbalize any other way. Writting was something I had to do.

I remember how beautiful it was to fall asleep on your couch and cry in front of you for the first time. You were the best platform from which to jump beyond myself. What was wrong with me?

I love songs that are very autobiographical.

I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.

Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.

Folk songs in general, I like. The old spooky Scottish folk songs.

There's a song", I say. "There's always a song", he says.

A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.

Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell asong. His G clef was a dollar sign.

I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it.

I think songs and visuals are so evocative of each other.

I don't want an angry song with no silver lining ending up on my album. Then I'd have to play, or feel obliged to play, that song every night in repetition as a mantra of anger.

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.

It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.

A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones..." and that's it.

I like listening to the whole song. Like my father says, "If you can't pick the whole song, then why are you playing it?"

When you're working a three-hour gig, how do you know when to climax? You just watch the crowd and ride the wave. If they're not feeling a song, you move on.

That happens quite a lot in Hot Chip - you can let go of something that was originally essential to the creation of a song.

Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here.

The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.

Peace is not the silence of cemeteries, but the song of social justice.

In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.

It's not like we did something wrong. We just burned down the church while the choir within sang religious songs.

I always think that you should be striving to write your best song.

If you were to say to me that you needed a romantic and sentimental song in four hours, I would have that song written in four hours.