Song Quotes

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

I like how you sing that song. You sound like you're really old.

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.

We're not the kind of band who writes an order abundance of songs and picks from them, we usually write for the album.

Songs come alive every night and can be a new experience for someone. You might have someone in the audience who has never seen us before and hearing it for the first time. We are aware of that.

Songs like "Spirit Carries On" really gets the audience moved and on the same page. It's challenging and all so much fun to play.

I'm a perfectionist and I can kill songs because I analyze them too much. For me it takes awhile because I like to do it and then step back and listen and observe.

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

Things just evolve. I sort of have no control over what happens with the songs. Sometimes I'm afraid I might wake up one morning with an entire record of polka songs.

Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song.

Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing a woman, and two men sing a love song to each other.

When I was writing this new bunch of songs, I was singing a lot lower, because they were more intimate in a way. I had to come up with a way to frame the music that was intimate.

Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was raised on.

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.

Sam Phillips asked me to go write a love song, or maybe a bitter weeper. So I wrote a song called, "Cry Cry Cry," went back in and recorded that for the other side of the record.

Sam Phillips responded most to a song of mine called, "Hey Porter," which was on the first record.

I used to sing Bill Monroe songs. And I'd sing Dennis Day songs like songs that he sang on the Jack Benny show.

I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low voice.

A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of it.

It's not just a song I sing with my hand raised but also with a billfold I've laid.

The enemy can steal your song.

I didn't form a group to perform Cilla Black songs.

I really had a great time working with Modest Mouse, just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I've worked with.

I know all the songs that the cowboys know'bout the big corral where the doggies go,'Cause I learned them all on the radio.Yippie yi yo kayah

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.

I could always write songs, act, get into politics, or stay home with the kids. But I've got to have some fun.

I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.

Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.

For me, I want to create a environment for the songs to live in. So one song by itself only tells a piece of the story, but in the context of the album, more of the colors are revealed.

As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.

I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.

[Charles McPherson] was kind enough to go to a record gig of mine where we recorded a song of his.

Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own special charm.

The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.

Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.

If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure.

I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.

It’s a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music.

Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.

People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me, they're too personal.

When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.

I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is.

Oh it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers

What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.

I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs.

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and that's really the only way it feels comfortable.