Song Quotes

I heard Pete Seeger records when I was a kid. I saw Bob Dylan when I was about 12. The first song I ever learned to play was a song by Phil Ochs.

I can't write songs unless I am in love.

I don't create the movies I'm in. When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

The great thing about "Shoot 'Em Up, Baby" is that it's the first song that we went and recorded [with Andy Kim].

I'm that tech writer who gets on stage and plays funny tech songs. I wouldn't want that to be all I'm known for, but it's a bit of a differentiator.

I didn't understand how to get a practice space or buy gear - I never thought I could do any of that - let alone get in front of people and play the songs.

I write all the time, and I write a lot of songs, but before I started putting out records those songs always just ended up on stuff that I did with The Babies.

Does the song of the sea end at the shore or in the hearts of those who listen to it?

Master, Master Poet, Master of our silent desires, The heart of the world quivers with the throbbing of your heart, But it burns not with your song.

My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and the song that I sing was not generated from within me.

But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.

The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.

I don't tell 'U.S. Weekly' which parties I'm going to. I write songs.

If people had good albums, they'd be buying albums. But people are buying singles because they only have good songs.

I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.

The program director at a radio station, by the way, is not the superstar. If he was a superstar, he'd be out creating songs, but he's not. But he wants to act like he has control and power.

And now that Martina McBride knows of T.I., and T.I. knows of Martina McBride, that made me very happy, too. It's introducing worlds to different people and bringing them together with a song.

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

I never had any other thought in my mind. I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.

In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs.

I really like the song "Only One" [ Kanye West with Paul McCartney].

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

I guess I've written enough songs now. I've been doing this for so many years, that it's kinda cool just to be able to pull something out of the bag.

I write my lyrics the day I sing the song, so even when I have the basic things, I'm thinking what can I change, what can I add, how many harmonies can I do.

I do kind of transcend the song and give it a different meaning.

Certain songs I feel different people should be on different tracks, you know it's emotional. I put myself into characters for certain records.

I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view.

I wanna make stuff that sonically sounds really good. I don't wanna make a song about how people think I'm this when I'm really that. I don't wanna make a song about how I grew up broke.

I'm inspired by everything that I encounter, from the environment to people to other songs, movies and artists.

When you're given a song, it's my job to record the lyrics, story and emotion, and make everyone who is listening to the song believe that it was my words and experience.

There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with.

I think America sees someone like myself, and they see it's not just a voice. It's the musicality of it all. People see that you can play an instrument and think you can immediately write songs.

I took guitar lessons and recorded the song in New York. It was kind of a dream. I got to pretend I was a recording artist for a couple days.

My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable. ...so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song.

One of the things that defines a country song for me is that it's honest. It's not putting on a tuxedo to go eat at the Burger King. It's about a song being emotionally true to itself.

[Songs] have to be a part of you. They have to be in your DNA. That's how I approached it.

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time. I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.

I have to play really loose versions of songs I've made on the computer.

I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual

'Cause you can't buy a house in heaven!

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

I feel like in every song I write, I always write a little darker bit.

My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs.

The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.

My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's "I Remember Sky." It's probably the saddest song of all time I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

When a song wants to be written, it will be written.