Song Quotes

• As much as heartbreak music might be therapeutic, we all want love and long for that feeling. So if a song can give you that feeling, even without being in love, that's amazing.

  

  Ella Mai
  • Music
  • Long
  • Feeling

• I think people should be able to have at their behest, like, four hours of music, entertainment, visual knowledge, different pathways[.] That's what I'm trying to do with modern technology, not just another song and another song.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Hate
  • Sad
  • Narcissist

• When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.

  

  Hans Matheson
  • Happy
  • College
  • Drama

• We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • High
  • Song
  • Location

• If I'm inspired to make a certain kind of song, I'm going to make that kind of song, no matter if it's what they know me as or think I am.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • Song
  • Inspired

• But now if I can wrap myself up in that song, and when that song gets to be a part of me, and affects me emotionally, then the emotions that I go through, chances are I’ll be able to communicate to you. Make the people out there become a part of the life of this song that you’re singing about. That’s soul when you can do that.1

  

  Ray Charles
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Up
  • Past
  • Start

• It wasn't until I found my tribe of artists - people who were outspoken and not afraid to say what they thought, whether in a song or a dance or a piece of classical music - that I found a refuge.

  

  Cote de Pablo
  • People
  • Music
  • Dance

• As a tool for the activation of specific thoughts, music is as good as language. The combination of the two-as best exemplified in the love song-is the best courtship of all.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Good
  • Music
  • Thoughts

• Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

  

  Michael Bolton
  • Time
  • Song
  • Amazing

• Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Together
  • Relationship

• You're my bread when I'm hungry You're my shelter from troubled winds You're my anchor in life's ocean Most of all You're my best friend

  

  Don Williams
  • Country
  • Friend
  • Ocean

• I haven't been able to write a song about flying. It just sounds cheesy. But for me, there's nothing like being up there.

  

  Dexter Holland The Offspring
  • Up
  • Flying
  • Cheesy

• When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

  

  Bruce Hornsby Bruce Hornsby & The Range
  • People
  • Country
  • Song

• Weezer's 'El Scorcho.' I'm in a '90s cover band called 'Straight 2 Video' with members of the crew from 'The Vampire Diaries,' and we played this song at our wrap party. I grin from ear to ear every time I scream this song in my car.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • Party
  • Band

• 'Roc The Life' is a song I wrote with The Dream, who made 'Umbrella,' 'Single Ladies' and loads more.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Single

• Timbaland's so wishy-washy sometimes - he'll hate a song at first and then love it, and then maybe go back to not liking it as much as something else.

  

  Keri Hilson The Clutch
  • Song
  • Hate

• Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Bad
  • Beginning
  • Cat

• Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone. They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on. And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song. Oh I hope you run into them, you who've been travelling so long.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Waiting

• It used to be, like, the sanctity of rock was that you could never let a song of yours be used in a commercial. It was like, 'Oh man, we'll never let our music be exploited that way.' Now they'll call you up and say, 'You gotta use this song in your movie, man. It's the new VW ad! People love it.' And you realize, boy, have times changed.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Nashville is the business center. They forget that the bottom line of it all is still the song.

  

  Jerry Jeff Walker
  • Business
  • Song

• It's easy to get people to sing along to cover songs, but when it's your song, it's the coolest.

  

  Chris Lane
  • People
  • Song

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