Song Quotes

I don't really pursue writing songs for other people. I guess one of the things I always think about is a good line in a song should be something I can hear myself saying.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician, which is fine for rock and roll.

I'm not one of these people who sits down and writes to say I'm gonna write a song about this or that, or a specific subject. The songs actually kind of write themselves.

When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.

Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.

I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

When the sun is shining, the right song is on, and I'm with people I love.

On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.

But also there are all the famous stories about the songs that have been rejected, but then went on to become hits.

I've always felt that singing is half technical, half taxing. You've got words, a melody, and an instrument, and you have to do justice to the words. You're just a medium for people to feel the song.

I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.

When we sing a song we give our soul a cuddle

My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My first song was not a love song, it was about smog.

Rappers shouldn't have to file taxes because they itemize everything they own in songs.

I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.

Just trying to get to know what director Bill Condon wanted. He's a great director and knows exactly what he wants. He knew every lyric to every song; knew where a handicap was.

My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

I tend to name albums after one of the songs.

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.

Moments of unexpected sweetness happen when romance enters, which always happens in songs - if just for a split second.

I'm more focused as a singer and hands-on with music and more exacting, and less trying to furiously fit a thousands thoughts into a four minute song.

Maybe it's because I grew up during the MTV generation, but to me a perfect song is one I can imagine a music video to, a song that can take you into a dream.

I always try to give my songs as gifts.

Longer is not my best song, it's just a classic love song, and every songwriter always dreams of writing a classic love song.

The outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes.

I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.

I think articulating things through song is a good way of letting people know that they're not alone.

A lot of people have a particular song that, no matter their mood, turns them on. With me, it's Eleanor Rigby.

Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.

And then of course the music sprang up, lousy rock as bold and dull as a giant potato. "Love this song," Todd said, like it was unusually brave to like what was number one on the radio.

I got a lot more interested in songs that could hold up completely on their own, with just a guitar and voice. For some people that's easy to do, but I find it's really difficult.

I enjoy making music alone, and I like keeping my options open for how I release my own songs.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last months.

Other people's songs can inspire me, though - I always have music on when I'm painting.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.

Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

I would push for more production and Steve Miller would say, "Why do you want to have more production when you have real songs? You don't want to cover up the song."

I don't really have a ritual. On the car rides over to the racetrack, I just make sure that the right songs are on.

I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.

I want people to listen to the lyrics of each song and absorb the music fully before they look at me and make a judgment about what they think my music will or should sound like.

The Woodshed Orchestra trade in exuberance and might, a glistening thunderslap on the hind of musical atrophy. These songs leap from disc to lap, a many-legged beast trundling with joy and vision.

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

To me the most important thing is getting into a studio and making an album that is 12 or 14 amazing songs, getting up onstage, and making people happy by livening the rock.