Song Quotes

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

Im thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.

I'm enjoying writing songs that are more stripped back.

I think music is such an extension of who we are, and the fact that I've gone through as much as I have, good, bad, and ugly, has really helped to shape the songs that I picked.

Somewhere we went wrong Our love is like a song But you won't sing along Have you forgotten About us

The key thing is to get that one splash - that one song or that one video for a song - that catches people's eyes. Because it's all digital content now.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people still wrote poems.

People need to be happy, and if a song makes them happy, that's cool.

There are so many songs that I hate.

I'm a perfectionist... So to me, if I had my way, a song is never perfect, never finished.

Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.

Really rather fascinating, you know,' he confided, and I recognized, with an internal sigh, the song of the scholar, as identifying a sound as the terr-whit! of a thrush.

And we will cause it to be well-made, this Sacrifice. You, young and never loving; I, old and never loved. Such a Song the Sea will never have seen.

The only song I can sing is “Lady in Red” so that must tell you how great it must have been.

One of the benefits of success with new songs is that some of the other songs will get a chance to see the light of day whereas they wouldn't have before.

I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.

I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.

To me, there's nothing worse than going to a concert and you're so looking forward to hearing your favorite song and they never play it. You're gutted.

You never forget where you were when you write a song; it's a very proper memory, so I knew exactly where I was and what I was doing for each track. It was like going into a time machine.

Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital.

Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.

I have been consistent by staying true to who I am and will continue to sing the type of songs that those who have continued to support my career expect from me.

As far am I'm concerned, I don't listen to radio anymore. They play the same ten songs over and over again, so why would I?

My songs are like my children. I love every single one of them.

I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.

I'm one of the people who will hear a song in a taxi and be like, stop, stop the car. Like, let's go back. What was that?

Whenever you play a song, you're basically playing with a lot of zeros and ones. These are Western compositional models that other cultures have explored in so many ways.

Usually bands would make a song to record for an album, but what happens with the deejays you say "Well the album is everything we need. Thanks band. You can go away now."

My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.

A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.

I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

I used to try to write a song a day. I've been so busy lately.

I write a little something every day, even though I don't write a song [every day]. Everything inspires me. I'll come up with a line, or somebody will say something that will trigger something.

I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.

Sometimes a song just has to cater to whatever's goin' on. A well-written song is a song that stays true to the subject.

Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton and I finished the song. It was great. I got to keep the baton.

When you hear kids singing your songs it just validates them, they sound like real songs when you hear them back, it's quite refreshing. Like songs that could have been around for a hundred years.

I'm pretty positive that if I started singing songs that were for my fame, the God would probably make me tone deaf again. I know why He gave me that voice. I know why He gave me my ears.

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.