Song Quotes

I said, baby, do you have no shame? She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train.

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

My wife really pushed me in that direction, to write my own songs and start singing, so I think having the whole family thing is such a huge thing.

I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.

I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.

A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.

My favorite song to play is 'Smokin'' by Boston. I actually had a chance to play that with the band Boston live.

There are lot of bands that have too many songs, I think.

A song is a meaningful thing.

I just write songs, I make music, and I have several times over reinvented my life in order to keep making music and just make music all day. I don't know. It's just what I have to do.

My song is ya girlfriend's wakin up ringer... or alarm or whateva. She'll be here at 6 in the morn if I let her

My song is ya girlfriend's wakin up ringer

I want to go on tour with the most exciting artists, and I want to make sure that I have songs with all of them.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I'm about to do something that's genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I'll be like, 'Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.'

Loving you no more, I just I can't I just can't be loving you no more, I love you more than I love myself

I think Shazam is one of the coolest inventions on the planet, and whether I was in a thrift store or in my car, every other week I was Shazaming another Best Coast song.

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.

I do write songs about love but I don't really know love that well.

So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.

Mo Yan is a writer who, defiantly in the face of those who wish his work were less cartoonish and more straightforward in its political meanings, continues to sing his own peculiar and alluring song.

Anytime an artist puts your name in a song, it's unbelievable. It never gets old.

With a pop album you can listen to one or two songs from it, but a music album is really an experience. It's not something a whole lot of rock bands do.

I have used that song ["50ft Queenie"] and I'm a big PJ Harvey fan. I think she's fantastic.

All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence.

The whole truth... sings only - and all lovers are the song.

Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

A great song for me is when I hear it and it's contagious. The lyrics and the melody, if grows on you once and you want to hear it over and over again.

One of my favorite things is when I'm listening to a song and I find my own meaning in it that I can relate to and I can create my own relationship and bond with the song.

The piano song that I do in the movie [The Hangover], it's a great example, that was never - that wasn't in the script.

You end up throwing a ton of energy into one or two tracks, and the song that we thought was gonna be the single isn't the single.

I would say, you can never do enough gigs and you can never do enough songs. Make sure that every opportunity you can, play a show and every opportunity you can, write a song.

[Miley Cyrus] got a fantastic voice. I do think she's a fantastic artist and does great songs. I wish her all the best.

I don't know if my songs fit in films.

'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.

Music gets inside you, music captures you. Music becomes your heartbeat. It’s a drug and makes you feel whatever the song’s about.

All my favorite songwriters are American - Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Jeffrey Lewis.

People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits.

This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group.

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.

There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.

The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the sunset shadows fall.

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

The nightingale is sovereign of song.