Song Quotes

A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song

I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?

I was blessed with the talent. God gave me the gift to put words together and make popular songs.

I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies - other people can't get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.

When I write songs, I try to remove myself a little bit. Obviously they're very personal to me, but it feels easier if I feel like I'm writing characters.

Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.

Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller.

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

I close my eyes and I can see a better day. I close my eyes and pray

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

Tell me how many songs that I must sing before I can see you in your glory, hear your whole entire story, bathe inside your golden, golden sea?

It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.

The melody is the most important thing that must stay in the minds of the people who listen to you. No matter how many notes you play, you can't let them forget what the song is.

You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.

What song is it you want to hear?

If we spoke less and sang songs of faith more, the world would be more Heavenly.

And though you want to last forever, You know you never will, You know you never will, And the good-bye makes the journey harder still.

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?

People have no discrepancy for me or my lyrics or the song.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

Worship songs can't just be rooted in culture - they won't be deep enough. They have to be rooted in scripture.

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.

If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain.

I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the songs perfectly, and some people are absolutely going to hate you.

If I knew where good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

Here's a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note. Don't worry, be happy.

A song or an album is never really done. You can work on it forever, but knowing when to call it a day and knowing when to walk away from it is extremely important.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me

Make it simple to last your whole life long. Don't worry that it's not enough for anyone else to hear. Just sing, sing a song

The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.

Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?

Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams.

Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.

We're important, but not essential; valuable, but not indispensable. We have a part in the play, but we are not the main act. A song to sing, but we are not the featured voice. God is.

Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

There is no moral to my song, I praise no right, I blame no wrong; I tell of things that I have seen, I show the man that I have been As simply as a poet can Who knows himself poet and man.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better.

And if I die before I wake I pray the lord my soul to take But please don't cry Just know that I have made these songs for you.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.

It’s only the sea,’ said Moomintroll. ‘Every wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you mustn’t go inside because it’s a labyrinth and you may never come out again.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Most of you live your life on flimsy little songs, not upon the word of God.

When I sing, I try to live the song or live the emotion of the song. The space I'm in doesn't exist. It's another world.