Song Quotes

I feel really personally connected to all of the songs, so stepping back is really hard.

When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.

I brewed potions in a vain search for life everlasting, I read books, I sang songs of history, And today I've come home to Cold Mountain To pillow my head on the stream and wash my ears.

That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

Sometimes, songs spill out of you very fast, and sometimes you have to wrangle them to the floor. But the same thing is true of comedy, where sometimes it really flows.

If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

If someone doesn't like another artist's song, that's their prerogative. But now it's kind of scary, and I never thought of it that way! But I love the challenge and feeling fear.

I only found out about Eminem getting on the track like a month ago. As if the song couldn't get any better. He just slays me, he's such a genius.

This song goes out to Robin Williams. It's called 'Last Hope'.

Some of the songs have a tinge more pop this time. I wanted to go into different worlds.

Whitney Houston, one of my biggest inspirations, also had that same mindset because her songs vary from R&B, hip hop, pop, and gospel.

If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.

Come ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home!

To be without a dog is worse than being without a song.

The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.

Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.

Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.

I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.

The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.

I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.

I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.

While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don't think it is artistically brave.

But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.

If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence. To break the endless song.

O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river Linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever The world more fair and sweet.

Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do.

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song.

Not God with wine, nor death, nor hate for a cry, but God with a song

When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

It's like these songs are your babies and you don't want anybody to think your babies are ugly! You never really know until you throw it out there if it's gonna take.

I never want to pick an easy song. I want to continue to challenge myself vocally.

Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

Time has passed through me and become a song.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

You can kill that man but not his song, When it's sung the whole world round...

It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.

That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for those to come.

I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through my friends and fell in love with it.

I am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song.

The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them.

I'm not against the Hanukkah songs. I like Hanukkah songs. I grew up with Hanukkah songs. I'm not opposed to Hanukkah or the songs that accompany it, at all.

I think it's fine for a singer to sing someone else's song. But the thing I don't like is when a singer that can write songs starts getting someone else to do it for them.

I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.

And I don't give a damn about a greenback dollarSpend it fast as I can for a wailin' song and a good guitarThe only things that I understand, oh yeah.

New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.