Song Quotes

The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.

Once I finish a song, it's done and it's on the album.

I'm a very message-oriented artist, and each song has a totally different meaning.

Im not the type of artist thats like, Lets go out and party and dance your life away! I think those artists are so cool, but I wanted meaning in my songs and they have messages.

I would pray that I'd leave a legacy of faith, trust and joy. For the joy of the Lord has been my strength and song, and I praise Him.

Everyone has a song in him.

Upon my lips the breath of song, Within my heart a rhyme, Howe'er time trips or lags along, I keep abreast with time!

They really can't imagine what my voice is like. Every time I sing a song, they are very surprised.

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.

Most times you don't write the song, the song writes you.

It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.

I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it.

Every song a hit, every hit a smack!

Let it be. Silly song, really. You let it be, it returns. There's the truth. You let it be, it drags you to the ground. You let it be, it crawls up your walls.

No matter what walk of life you're from, you can appreciate the music - songs [can] resonate in your soul and your heart.

If you're writing a song about a relationship ending, what you're really doing is honoring how much that person meant to you.

My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade.

For a song I was bought Now I lie when I talk With a careful eye on the cue card. Onto a stage I was pushed, With my sorrow well rehearsed. So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).

I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.

I think there's a weird self-affirmation thing that happens in popular music in general. It seems like every song I hear on the radio is like, "Listen to me roar!" or "This is my fight song!"

Each Desaparecidos's song has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people.

I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.

So many times nowadays it's about having two good songs on an album and a bunch of filler, and I wanted to make something that I felt every song on the album was fun for everybody.

The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.

I just try to stay honest with myself and in doing that I feel like the songs are going to resonate.

When I deal with my struggles in my songs, I feel like most people are going to identify with my struggles because they are essentially dealing with the same things.

When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how to write songs that resonated with people.

I think people just want to hear good songs and I just want to keep getting better as a writer so that I can deliver good songs.

I believe that people want to hear good songs and they want to be moved.

A song is only as strong as its foundation, and when it comes so naturally in any setting, those are the songs that will hopefully outlive you, maybe even outlive the next generation of You.

In the nights sometimes now he'd wake in the back and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun.

I've never liked songs that are about writing, or struggling to write. Maybe it's because it's too relatable to me.

The music, I think, is just as important as the lyrics; it portrays the emotion of the song. I play the kind of music that I want to listen to.

I think that a good song is catchy, and a great song is not catchy - but it has a deeper meaning.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like a fluke.

People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.

One of the things is my process requires a lot of repetition. I can probably drive people crazy because I'm interested in playing a song twenty times in a row.

I think making the songs is to put strength in the community in some way.

If you wait four or five years between records, it better be a masterpiece, you know? And if you keep putting them out, you're saying, 'Hey, here's 10 more songs'.

In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone.

I think when you are doing a song you're trying to give people enough details that they connect.

I think you want to write a song that's like the songs you are into.

I can still sing most Eagles songs, even though I never bought a record and never liked the band.

An album doesn't mean as much to a lot of people now, compared to just songs.

The reality is that the shows kind of disconnect from the songs a little bit. You're playing the songs, but they take on a life of their own.