Song Quotes

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

His hooves pound the beat, your heart sings the song.

Friday' is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in that song.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.

That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You are my heart's hidden poem. I reread you, memorize you every moment we're apart.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.

The only thing better than one of my songs is one of my songs with a glass of scotch.

I like having that juxtaposition where you can have a very triumphant sounding song and then throw in all this crazy imagery. That's part of the fun of writing, you know?

Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.

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

Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.

Part of the power of song is that it is a beautiful expression of devotion...singing releases the pent-up joy and thanksgiving we feel because of God's grace and goodness.

Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people's hearts.

I've been on the songs of all these rappers that put out an album, and my music is still better.

Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.

The song, to me, is about what it is to be a human, what it is to love someone as a human being, and organizations that would undermine that, and undermine the more natural parts of being a person

I want people to get out of that nasty habit of needing a label. Every genre for each song is different.

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.

A song fluttered down in the form of a dove, And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!

I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain songs.

There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.

I was married at the time when I first joined the band and my wife said: 'Why don't you write a song about me ?' So I wrote 'She's got balls'. Then she divorced me.

I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.

A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning.

Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song.

Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song.

In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.

Morning has broken Like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird.

Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth! On for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth.

Watch for all that beauty reflecting from you and sing a love song to your existence.

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.

I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're in a truck.' It's just mind-numbing to me.

You're my bread when I'm hungry You're my shelter from troubled winds You're my anchor in life's ocean Most of all You're my best friend

Love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must, that's a part of the plan. Await your arrival with simple survival, and one day we'll all understand.

Though the singer is silent…there is still the truth of the song.

To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song

A great song will say how you feel better than you ever could.