Song Quotes

I have way too many songs that have music but don't have lyrics.

I think I've just gotten better at learning how to write a song.

Right now I really enjoy writing songs.

You know, being able to, in my mind, have a song that you know doesn't really have any loose ends or you know, extra fat in it, so to speak.

'Battlefield' was one of those slow-building songs, the way 'Tattoo' was. It was kind of a word-of-mouth hit. The more people heard it, the more they started requesting it on the radio.

[Billie Holiday] was keeping it super real, and you can feel that to this day. Everything that she sang, she believed in. So I had to pick songs that I felt the same about.

One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.

There is no passion that is not finely expressed in those parts of the inspired writings which are proper for divine songs and anthems.

Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.

Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs.

Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.

I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.

It's hard to convince people when you haven't done anything that the things you're working on are worthy of spending their time and money on: like, "Oh man, I write really great songs, I promise!"

I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It's not like that anymore, needless to say.

I'm definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.

'All Over Me' is a song that I really got fired up the first time I heard it: it just really moved and it really had a lot of energy.

I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the same thing all the time.

The music as a whole is selfish, but the musicians aren't," "The song may go on forever but it's not about competition within the band; it's about playing as a band.

I want my songs to be heard by everyone. I want [everyone] to treat people with compassion. I want them to realize that we are all so similar, but we focus so much on our differences.

I want my songs to be heard by everyone.

I usually can be more honest writing songs than actually talking to people.

As a kid, I was obsessed with the Who. They were the most important band to me. Songs like "I'm One" helped me get through high school.

My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs.

I'm a producer first, and I know music, so I can jump on any song, whether it's pop or urban, without changing me. Whatever I do, I'm gonna make it classic.

As a musician, you write and make music as you go. It's definitely in a great sequence. When you release songs, you think, "Let me make sure this goes with this so it's like a story."

I just make the music, and people have the say. When I'm making songs, I never call them hits.

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

Although I'm a huge fan of Ben Kweller, I don't think I'd cover one of his songs, simply because there's just so much of my own stuff I wanna do.

I don't believe songs that try to say everything in a simple slogan.

The music and lyrics of Rodgers & Hammerstein connect seamlessly. Singing those beautiful songs was a joyous experience for me, and one that I will never forget.

And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.

Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.

Eat of my deep earth, drink of my living streams, for I am your Mother. Your heart is my wild drum, your breath my eternal song. If you would live, dance with me!

Yoochun makes great songs..so I want to go fishing w/ him. That way I can be closer to him as well.

I have much clearer memories of my time in Egypt: songs on the radio, the rhythms that accompanied belly dancers, the sound of the adhan - the Muslim call to prayer. I just soaked it all up.

It's not that I write songs that are easy to get but I don't think there's a lesson that I'm trying to teach in any of my songs. There's not a moral at the end of it.

I want to create something that you haven't heard lyrically before. It's part of my job, and even though some of my songs are love songs, I tend to talk about love in different ways.

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.

Some songs, some nights won't do anything for you, but people enjoy them and that's the job. The magic is finding those places to stand in the song and gain perspective.

The songs started as a soundscapes, and then came the words and music; each song took at least a year to make.

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

I know not every song has to be a powerful message.

I'm a really huge John Prine fan; I love his clever conversationalist songs.

I wrote my first song when I was nine, and it was called 'Notice Me'. My Mom still has the piece of paper around somewhere, but I can't even imagine how terrible it is.

I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.