Song Quotes

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

Grunge, man, that was incredible. It was dangerous. It was not verse/chorus. Songs could be short, long, a lark, majestic. You were constantly being surprised.

I'm just the instrument for the song to do whatever it's supposed to do-heal, inspire or encourage. It's not all about me, it's about the song. I'm just the lucky girl who gets to sing these songs.

I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough to sing a gospel song?

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

Even from the darkest night songs of beauty can be born.

I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.

It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.

In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting with so many people, they're definitely different.

I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.

Love Songs Now: Fewer broken hearts, more sexual misery.

I like having a song in my head that's never been heard and then going into a studio and recording it and hearing it exist in the world. It's a magical part. Filled with wonder.

Songs really tend to connect.

Basically every song on modern metal albums follows a formula and you get that formula in between one to three tracks.

Everyone's attention span these days is limited to how long it takes to flick the iPod wheel on to the next song.

I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.

It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a while for the listener to get there, too.

The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.

A different drumbeat or some vocal overdub could completely transform the song.

You can never plan what a song will do. I wrote Mr Pitiful song on a piano I paid $200 for and I definitely got my money's worth.

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

I was writing songs because I needed them, songs about trusting God in difficult circumstances.

When you listen to someone's songs, their soul comes through.

When I write, I'm writing as a fan, and trying to come up with songs that I would want to listen to.

I write songs to handle emotional pain. I guess what they say is true: with every heartache comes a great song. I also pray and have great friends.

I just try and get the best out of an artist - we all have a responsibility to fill the world with awesome songs!

Artists get to step outside their comfort zone a 'lil bit and we get some great songs!!

Honestly I don't like to write songs that often, only when I feel like I need to and when I've got something that I really want to sing about.

It's frustrating that people attribute something to certain songs and that's not what they're about at all.

I needed a song and I need a place to kind of get it out. John Paul [White] was there for me as a friend, and I really appreciated that because I just needed a place to go.

It's the song in your heart that wants you to help make yourself a better person, and to help other people do the same. Everybody has one.

I already committed Darren [Criss] to giving a song.

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?

Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging.

My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day.

It was always summer and the future called We were ready for adventure and we wanted them all And there was so much left to dream And so much time to make it real

I watch movies and hang with my family, go shopping, love to cuddle with my dog, Happy, & write songs with my guitar!

You have stopped the arrow of time... There's no meaning to this rhyme... Because my song will never mean as much as the one.. He once sang.. For you, yes, you.

Anywhere in the world, in every oppressive country, time sooner or later comes and libertarian people sing the same song: Goodbye Mr Dictator! This is a universal law, this is a universal song.

When your target is too far away from you, continue walking singing the song you like.

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.

Torch songs are confessions. They are an expression of feeling that cannot be concealed or contained or minimized. They are marked by anguish, yes, but also by yielding.

You can turn off the song the way you cannot the actual experience.

A Grammy is a wonderful thing; all of a sudden you're given a new audience but, like anything, you have to be able to grow with these songs if you really want a long artistic career.

The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.

I can write songs without a guitar.