Song Quotes

I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

I usually never, ever get nervous before a regular show. But a TV show? I'm always nervous because you know you gotta nail that song.

Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure new songs.

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.

I'd always wanted to write a song about a leather jacket and how wearing it makes you feel. I love leather jackets, and I've got a big collection of them.

Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that.

I thought, I might not look my best, I've forgotten half the words to my songs and I'm suffering from post-traumatic stress, but I've just got to get out there and do it.

I liked the idea of writing a song saying I'm happy with who I am, and I don't mind if people think I'm some old git.

I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I'll do three versions of a song, then think, "Is the demo better?"

I can imagine moving out to the seaside at some point. I like Brighton, my sister lives there. I'm a seaside boy and whenever I go there, I find myself writing songs about it.

Your goal is to write that masterpiece. Yello's masterpiece was "Oh Yeah." Whatever I say about the song doesn't matter, because it has a huge impact on how we remember the era.

I love Wilco's "I'm the Man Who Loves You." Nels Cline has that weird guitar slide at the beginning and the song is whispered actually.

I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language.

I don't like to criticize music and I had a really hard time picking out the song I hate for this because I end up seeing and working with musicians all the time.

I was crazy about the song "Doot Doot," so I usually love this genre of weird, European electronic.

I'm super-obsessed with 'Intervention.' I wrote a song about it.

Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.

I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

I know my priorities... I love music and I will continue to make songs, I know it's not just a period in my life. But I am focused on my studies.

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.

I'm doing more than just making songs for the radio. I want it to be a well rounded sounding experience.

When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.

When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.

I grew up the biggest fan of the Cure. Knew every lyric, had every album, B-side, single, poster, everything. Then cut to fifteen years later, and we're working on songs together. Ridiculous.

I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important.

I used to go to the school folk club with my songs when I was only 13 or so and say "this is a traditional folk song" and sing it with a bad Irish accent to disguise the real source.

Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.

I can answer anything about any American pop culture song ever.

I really love something about being around the recording studios - you know, like, those days in the '80s they'd be, like, in the studio 'til 4, 5, 6 in the morning working on these songs.

I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily Allen.

I wasn't ready to write my own songs when I was in my early 20s. I'm still growing but I definitely grew because of my experiences on the road and in the studio.

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I play with other musicians or percussive instruments, it might end up being a little more upbeat.

The song was born on her breathe and died at her lips.

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

Once the game begins, I play to that song in my head. I run to rhythm, and that allows my mind to be free.

I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing.

I tried to find a way out in many ways, but it all caught up with me. Once I realised I could sing and write songs, it was just so much easier to do than anything else!

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo project. I'm not a very prolific songwriter, so I keep those for Depeche Mode.

People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.

I didn't write songs for a very long time.

The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.