Song Quotes

Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.

In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.

I'm still trying to find the perfect Nirvana song that's an example of that, but you do hear a lot of their songs start with an extremely emotional death grunts.

Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.

When you're in a band and write a song on your own, it isn't fully realized until it goes into somebody else's ears.

I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.

As far as the bands that are reforming now, it's always nice to see old friends and hear some of those great songs, but it's just not our thing.

For most people who have or who do identify as or with [song] Straight Edge, I feel like for most people, they're just trying to do the right thing.

I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.

I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all. I don't take anything back, so I do look after them to some degree. But my main focus is on what I'm doing now.

You can't just sing the song and live another life.

If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

When I finish a song, I never feel like I want to restrict its life. I feel that once I've done something, it's out. It's in people's ears, cars, headphones. It has its own journey.

As the fans' voting reflected, people want to hear your best-known songs.

In the open air you don't play as many quiet songs as you would normally.

I have a pleasant voice, but I have no great range. I will say that I know how to make a song come alive and I guess I do have a sincerity that comes across. But I do alot of things better than sing.

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

I had all these songs lying around. They had all these woman characters, and I thought the idea of the Woman King would be a good way to tie them all together.

It sort of depends on the song. Some of them are pretty easy to write, and others take a while. I do a lot of writing in the morning.

The song succeeds or fails just based on whether you argue your point successfully.

In some songs, like propaganda songs-and don't get me wrong, I love some propaganda songs. They're some of my favorite songs in the world. It's just that I don't enjoy writing it.

I don't feel any obligation to make my intentions for a song accessible to a listener or an audience. I'm not interested in conveying anything to them so much as what's best for me.

It's the way I enjoy making art - I like sitting down and making five beats; I enjoy that process. I can go two weeks without making a song and just making beats and I'll be OK.

I grew up watching Grease, and Grease 2. I fantasized about walking through school halls and busting out in a song. At that time, I was too much of a chicken to do so. Id love the challenge now.

It was his own grief turned magically to song.

The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension.

You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.

If you emphasize one part of the song, it trivializes the rest of the music.

In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life.

Happy days are here again, The skies above are clear again: Let us sing a song of cheer again, Happy days are here again!

There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

I like listening to Beyonce, and I like Jason Derulo. I love his new song 'Don't Wanna Go Home.'

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

When I am excited about a song I want to release it rather than wait to build up an album.

I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'

Though a song may race by in a minute and a half, every aspect of it is calculated and intentional.

No matter how tired I am, when a great song comes on, I'm full of energy.

I'm listening to so much. I looooove Alicia Keys' song, "Unthinkable." I'm blasting that all over the place, but I'm also listening to Sade, and I always have my Heavy Metal, Mastodon.

To just write one song to then go and play huge festivals all around the world it's exciting and it's never really been the case.

I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called 'Starry Room' and then I started turning over a new leaf.

Three thousand people singing back your songs is an incredible feeling.

I throw down a lot on paper and on tape. Sometimes while I'm practicing on the guitar, I'll think of a song.

There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs.

I believe a No. 1 song starts happening when it's believable and validating.

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively-and there were a lot of choices-writing songs was king.