Song Quotes

• If I write the song, I get to name it.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Song

• A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Song
  • Mountain

• I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • Beautiful
  • Morning
  • Sun

• When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Listening

• I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Song

• When I'm on a stage, it's just me, singing a song with words that I wrote and I believe in. And if I don't believe in them anymore, I'll stop singing that song.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Believe
  • Words
  • Stop

• Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with so much feeling, jazz, blues, all those singers, they were songs that I listened to, records that my mom played for me, and then later I bought.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • People
  • Great
  • Feeling

• 'Tum Jo Mile' came as a surprise. Vivek and Kumaar sir, who has written the song, sent me the track just to listen. I was in London at the time for my world tour. I heard the song, and I fell in love with it instantly.

  

  Armaan Malik
  • Time
  • World
  • Song

• I've always had an eclectic taste in music. But what I try to do is combine these things in ways that others would never think of, like putting Bun B on an Elton John song.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Music
  • Song

• We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Moments

• My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix, as we've talked about. It has very little to do with what people think success is. I actually feel successful right now, even though I don't have an album out, or a video or a song on the radio, because I'm trying to be obedient to His will.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Trying
  • Success

• The first song is called 'London.' It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime.

  

  Neil Tennant Pet Shop Boys
  • Life
  • Army
  • Desert

• I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not share it, I'm always writing songs or coming up with melodic lines on piano or guitar. It's therapy. It's always happening.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.

  

  Hugh Anthony Cregg III Clover
  • Heart
  • Inspiration
  • Rock N Roll

• I really wanted to write a song like Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight.' It's just such a sweet sentiment. It's so simple but so genuine.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Song
  • Simple
  • Sweet

• I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.

  

  Kerry King Slayer
  • Done
  • Song

• If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I'm saying, is that I'm not gay, you know? People confuse the lyrics for me speaking my mind. I don't agree with that lifestyle, but if that lifestyle is for you, then it's your business.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • People
  • Mind
  • Teacher

• I started out in the 1940s, singing around the clubs of Cleveland, Ohio, where I grew up. There was a woman in showbusiness, a contortion dancer called Estelle 'Caldonia' Young - she was named after the song Caledonia Caledonia.

  

  James Victor Scott
  • Up
  • She
  • Singing

• When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and we'd talk about the connections between those things.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Poetry

• It's important to me that there's not just one story told about our city. 'LSD' is an ode to Chicago, a song for the complicated love I have for my city.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Important
  • City
  • Chicago

• You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Great
  • Crazy
  • Emotional

• Songwriting is actually a really great outlet. I kind of recommend it. You get to sum up whatever is going on in your life in a song, then perform it really passionately.

  

  Bridgit Mendler
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Every song is something that I've been through or an emotion I've felt - like falling in love or heartbreak.

  

  Ashlee Simpson
  • Song
  • Emotion
  • Heartbreak

• When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really hard for an artist, unless they sold a lot, to see anything.

  

  Jill Sobule
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

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