Song Quotes

I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college.

People really respond to the songs when I play them in concert. Every song comes from a different place emotionally or from a different headspace.

I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.

I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.

Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to song writing.

I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

There came a moment in the middle of the song when he suddenly felt every heartbeat in the room & after that he never forgot that he was part of something much bigger

Writing dialogue is like writing a song, which I've done.

I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.

At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly."

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

There is redemption in every song.

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

I love music, from shanty sea-songs to Calvin Harris.

Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools.

I hope at some point in my career when my name is mentioned, someone will say "Oh yeah he has a good song!" I'd be happy with that.

I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.

I love metal songs about metal. That's one of my favorite things. Nobody does that any more. Nobody sings about how metal they are, or about their fans, or about how crazy their pits are.

If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.

I have enjoyed writing songs for so long... it felt like in order to make music that I could relate to myself, I would have to be a part of the writing process.

I only write about stuff I know. I don't have a lot of experience with boys and stuff so I write a lot of songs about interesting and strange subjects that people wouldn't write songs about.

Takin' out my freak tonight

I performed at Mom and Dad's party when I was four. Oh my gosh, I was singing a Madonna song, and I peed myself!

On her Slave For You video: It's a very sensual video so I thought it was a good reflection of the song. My Mum thought it was... different.

I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.

I tend to work on a song, generate ideas, and re-arrange it like five times, and I'm glad I take the time to do that, because I think my original songs come out better.

A lot of times I wind up playing songs like (Alice in Chains') "Down in a Hole" that make me scream at the top of my lungs if I want to get frustration out from a bad day.

I feel like I always have to have a song on my album that people can use in their weddings.

I'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books.

I began dabbling in writing when I was 12, and there was never an official start to singing... I just sang my songs because there was no one else to sing them and no one told me to shut up!

The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.

I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song: My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.

The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.

The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.

I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.

A great singer has to learn how to inhabit a song.

I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?

For me, once I count the band in, and I delve deep into my song, I feel a certain sort of integrity and integration that I rarely find in my daily life.

Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs.

I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song.

Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.

I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.

There are many Broadway songs that apply to moments on 'Mad Men,' and I sing them on set all the time.

It's good having a lot of different songs to choose from to do the show. It means you don't get bored of doing it in one particular genre.