Song Quotes

Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?

you see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street so I made up a song that wasn't true. I made up a song called Marriage.

My theme song is always: "Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them."

You don't have to pound your head after hearing a country song and wonder if you missed something.

For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it.

There's always something extremely personal in the songs, but I may change the point of view from what I actually experienced.

The schematics are a little bit tricky, but once you get it down you're able to really program an entire show. Every song has a lot of different guitar sounds in it, so that's what it is.

I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.

The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.

I want to explore and do things with excellence. I want to write songs that resonate with me and will resonate with a live audience. I'm exploring fresh sounds.

We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about.

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

I see everything as creative material. If I pick up a shell of a song that I wrote 10 years ago, all that matters is the reality of that material as it's living today.

When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them.

The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added the layers of people who are in my life, and built up the songs.

I want to produce with people that are going to be on the charts and win Grammys because having regular old street songs is cool, but I did all that already.

With song titles, I try to keep a healthy sense of humor while saying something at the same time.

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.

I hate not understanding the words, because it kind of squashes the song. It shrinks the visual landscape that you've made for the sounds. And, all of a sudden, the content eclipses things.

I don't write as many songs as I used to. But, I find myself writing for social media more - times have changed. And I love photography, so a lot of my creative energy gets caught up that way.

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

My first boyfriend that I ever had, actually sang a song that he wrote for me on-stage to ask me out. That was pretty romantic.

I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like the song. It's a love song - kind of - but it's kind of depressing and dark.

The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus.

Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."

Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.

A lot of my songs are personal and about me being 16 and having guys break my heart and feeling like it's the end of the world.

It's easiest to write songs when I'm either really in love or really mad at a guy. It's just always best when I'm feeling superemotional.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

I just sing the song and I sing it with conviction, meaning and I get into the mood of every song I do no matter how much time I have in between.

I don't really concentrate on Urban AC or whatever. I don't concentrate on genres or how people section off songs for radio.

When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.

I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.

Adding instruments to parts of a song and having them somehow find a pocket. That to me was a huge lesson. Like, there's more than 808s in the universe.

You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.

There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.

We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.

I just don't like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn't need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)

In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.

I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive...And since I'm a songwriter and I connect with an interpretative, you know, interpretation of a song, I miss it. I just miss it.

We became the songs we wrote.

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.

It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.

My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.

I'm sure the music is going to come out. I'm not sure if I'm going to put out 12"s or put the songs on my website. I just have to get them done.

There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.

There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever.

I don't remember half of the new bands, though - and I think that's kind of where we're going. It's turning into just a big derby of songs. May the best song win.

The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years.