Song Quotes

My eyes adored ya Though I never laid a hand on you My eyes adored ya Like a million miles away from me you couldn't see how I adored ya So close, so close and yet so far

When I go to shows, I'm really looking forward to hearing the songs I know. I don't like it when a band tries to expose me to new stuff.

I'm the same guy at that podium preaching to the people on every single song. I'm not doing a dance for you on another song. It's all a direct assault.

They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

Song forbids victorious deeds to die.

Truth is more than a dream and a song.

Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious. This album of classic folk songs is one of his best.

You do a little more of a record album these days. See I just wanted to put a few songs in Beaches and we did very well. The album of Beaches went gold.

Singles are your safest songs on the records. Ones that piss fewer people off, that appeal more to the masses.

I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases fans and non-fans alike.

If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.

I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.

I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.

There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.

I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.

It's weird for me to try and write punk songs - I'm almost scared of it.

Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.

I think my strength is in shaping a song - you know, making it feel like it reaches its peaks and valleys, and ends when it should end.

Every artist usually has one or two songs that really define their careers.

The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you actually can buy the song and download the song to your computer hard drive.

First, in a love song, or any song for that matter, using a plastic word like "inhibitions" is just completely without feel or texture. It demonstrates a tin ear for communication.

What rare days were those, When my chief duty was to write a song.

The thing for me though, is that songs are good depending on the memories I have with them.

Even if I know that really it's not a great song, even if it's a naff song but I have a good memory of it, then to me that's a great song.

Better to have the poet's heart than brain, Feeling than song.

Only because uplifted in song, was I able to endure the blaze of the dawn.

The song seraphically free Of taint of personality, So pure that it salutes the suns The voice of one for millions, In whom the millions rejoice For giving their one spirit voice.

Songs are often written by people who are witnesses to history.

Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.

Knights die in battle,” Catelyn reminded her. Brienne looked at her with those blue and beautiful eyes. “As ladies die in childbed. No one sings songs about them.

I thought my song was beginning that day, but it was almost done.

Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic Rock people do.

Songs hold different memories for different people and the great ones are the ones that become a part of you and your story.

It's easy to get into an easy routine but the problem with that is you can tend to write the same song over and over again.

A great song is something that you go back to in twenty years and it's still so influential to you.

Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the way that they see the song.

When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.

Dan Harmon has this idea that characters on TV are allowed to talk about their favorite movies and TV shows and songs.

There are some songs we do, like "Last Chance," I love it! But sometimes you just don't like your voice on certain things.

My favorite cut is probably "Drink of Choice," and it was done by Bryan Michael Cox, it's a metaphorical type song, about a woman being a drink. I'll let your mind wander with that one.

I like to use recognizable songs, but other than that, this song would be perfect.

I've been cataloguing samples for years, I have this massive library. Songs come out everyday so it's never ending.

People can judge me on whatever level they think but I've always tried to make my own songs.

Something that distinguishes my solo work from normal rap production is that it has a lot of melody - it's not just cutting up a song and having someone rap over it.

The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music.

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.