Song Quotes

The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?

I rather hate the whole digital world concerning music - nothing to touch, too many songs and no thread, no artwork etc., and no label to talk with and have support from.

Oh, Daisy, it's revolting the way I want to fawn all over him. I'm afraid I'm going to do something dreadfully silly today. Burst into song or something. For God's sake, don't let me.

As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.

I don't use simple words. I make games and puzzles with my songs.

A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.

I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.

I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.

When I have no idea what to do with how I'm feeling, I generally make a song out of it.

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.

Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long.

I wanna hear some Diana Ross, I wanna hear some Marvin Gaye. I wanna hear a song that reminds me of a better day.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

When you have a song on the radio your career and your life changes maybe for the better and maybe for the not so good depending on how it's going that day.

He has a song in his heart for me. I hope it is not "Shut Uppa You Face, Whatsa Matta You.

Of course, Im older now. Im in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for Car Wheels or Essence or whatever. Different things were going on.

Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs, that's what I'm really doing.

Sometimes I dream song ideas. I write a song in my dream, the melody and everything. But then sometimes I can't remember them. I think later on, I probably do.

It's easier to write songs when you're single.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.

Im always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, Im always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. Its like my job is my vacation.

I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.

Beyond hoping that someone will like one of my songs, I don't think about how a song will be received. I just hope that, when somebody hears one of my songs, they'll want to hear it again.

I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.

I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.

When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.

I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?

The production process has a great way of bringing songs to light and that's a big part of it.

I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way.

Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can to the song and the initial inspiration.

From a very early age, I started to get really interested in how songs were put to tape. Not just listening to the songs, but the way the songs were recorded.

With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.

Going on tour, you don't have a lot of time to mull things over. You're just kind of, "Another beer, another show, another song."

I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way.

To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that cant get through the mesh to bite you.

I wanna kiss you in Paris I wanna hold your hand in Rome

The End of a long week with Viking Leader AKA DJ Virgo AKA Avicii! So many great songs! #icantwait #revolution

I don't doubt love for a second. I'm living for love. Listen to my songs!

I think love resides in all of the songs, even when they are overtly sexual.