Song Quotes

Only joy comes from song.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

It costs $2,500 to purchase a song and I know from experience that I like to score with songs.

Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.

Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

I think I prefer for the listener to decide for themselves what stuff means, because I always hate it when I think a song is about a horse, and then it turns out to be about a damn trip to France.

I've definitely done my share of tripping over monitors, etc. but nothing could compare to the time when I totally forgot the beginning of a song that I was starting on stage.

I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.

they danced as though they'd been waiting all their lives for each song.

The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.

To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it.

If some event happens and it seems really important to me and moving to me, I'll write it down in my lyric book knowing that it will come out in a song.

ahhhh...organic and rich like good soil... makes me want to listen and hear it grow. the songs are honest and dimensional. it's music to my ears.

I hope that the next time you go to a concert, the band doesn't play the song you wanna hear! And instead, they just play songs off their new album!

The moment someone says, 'Hey, everyone, listen to the words in this song,' your party is over.

I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it.

Those people online are analyzing everything both of you do. Andre, every new song you're on gets scrutinized.

I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.

Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.

Most of the songs that I appreciate are lyrically vague.

If you take a little time, let's say three weeks off, after recording a song, and you listen to it every other day, you're just going to know eventually.

It's not set in stone. I like to keep it rolling and changing, and so I am like, "Great, I get to remake my song."

The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs, the music is actually pretty peaceful and lulling.

There's always that struggle between me wanting to keep [song] new and fresh and then be - I can never get with pop songs being so repetitive.

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.

I try not to release songs that I'm not proud of, and even songs that I don't connect with.

Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good songs to great songs.

I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased.

We're really into combining lots of different styles into one song: that's normal for us. It might seem arbitrary but we listen to a lot of music that does that.

With Kevin [Drew], as I said, in his own way just told me "You gotta find that person that talks to you in your songs." I think we succeeded. I feel relief, to be quite honest with you.

I love whenever they downgrade a hurricane to a tropical depression, because I always think of a tropical depression as how I feel three songs into a Jimmy Buffett concert.

There’s little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.

I listen to my iPod as I walk on. If I'm winning I'll listen to the same song, that's like a good luck thing - usually The Black Eyed Peas' Let's Get It Started.

I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different.

I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.

My family life, my adoption - it could be related to the songs, but I think the songs are deeper than that. They're not just about this experience.

Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.

I'm letting the songs breathe and change and become what they are without force.

I mean, playing music at home and writing and hanging out with my guitar is kind of medicinal for me, but when I bring the songs to people on stage, it's very joyous.

He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.

When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with reality, temporarily insane and the result: a song!

What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.