Song Quotes

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

One might say that "Torch Song" is, in part, about the urgency of the effort to pin things down and what wild dart throwing that desire leads to.

I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

Do you know what my father used to say?" I ask her. "He used to say that songs had a heart. A crescendo that can make all your blood rush from your head to your toes.

Song: Heloise and Abelard by Elizabeth Devlin. Beyond the a propros subject matter, this lady can really play the Autoharp. This song sounds like something you'd find on a gramophone record.

The best songs that I write usually come in, like, two minutes, and I think a lot of songwriters would probably say those kind of songs that come just like that are the good ones.

The songs that you work and work and work on sometimes are just forced and not as good.

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.

We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.

Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.

I'll get into conversations with other people, and all of a sudden they will say something that sparks that... either the titles to me, or just the conversation itself will spark an idea for a song.

I'm not afraid to go out on a limb, style-wise or with lyrics. I don't ever want to be afraid to cut those types of songs because radio might not play it.

Some people take pictures, I write songs.

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It's so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself.

When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the things around you for your inspiration.

Fly Away changed my life. There are certain songs that do. When I won the Grammy, I was in Paris. I sort of forgot about it.

A lot of my songs deal with spirituality and God, and I guess if you're in tune with that, you'll read into it.

That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.

I'm really happy about American Woman, it brought the Guess Who back. They started gigging again and got their song out on commercials.

Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say. I write them down and figure out how to use that in a melody to write a song.

It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.

I want all of my songs to do well whether I've written them or not.

There are so many songs I've recorded, only to hear other people singing them. It happens all the time.

It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.

Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I always go into immediate critical suspension.

I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.

The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.

If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.

You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.

In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.

It's the coolest feeling signing your record. And it's great when people come to your shows and know the words to the new songs.

When I write songs I think about how it makes people feel, and I hope that when it goes into your ears you feel happy too. Not sexy happy but apple pie happy.

YEAH! It's really hard to write heart broken songs when you're happily married

I praised those who find within themselves their own song to create hope.

All of my songs are about me and my experiences. They're very literal.

But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

Nobody says anything real today. Most of those girls have their songs written by other people. It annoys me, because 'eh oh eh oh ahh' is not a chorus...

I don't really see how any song can not feel contrived if it isn't honest, and how could I write honest songs if I don't write about stuff going on in my life and how I'm feeling?

Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.

I sing some songs but don't expect me to release an album anytime soon.

When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.

the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.

Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect to the human race through song makes me feel less alien.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

I began writing The Cold Song in the months following my fathers death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: What now? How to proceed?