Song Quotes

• I don't really break into too many solos. But I've never been a super-big solo guy anyway. I like to make the main melody guitar lines of the songs as cool and interesting as possible without just strumming chords. I like to have chords intertwined with riffs here and there, but I'll do the riffs and the solos where the bottom will drop out. Basically, I do everything for the song, I don't do it for the solo glory. Kids aren't really into that anymore for some reason.

  

  Mark Thomas Tremonti Alter Bridge
  • Kids
  • Guy
  • Interesting

• When writing I just go with the song. I go with the song and try to tell the story. So the story may be "Wonderful Baby", which is a little song. Or it might be a gentle song, "Empty Chairs". Or it might be a rock and roll song like "Prime Time" or "Run, Diana, Run", or "American Pie". I don't know where it's gonna go. I don't have any idea what I'm doing. I just do it. I just keep doing it. I keep taking adva

  

  Don McLean
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I have a real dog-like mentality, in that it's like, 'Where is my next meal coming from? Am I ever gonna eat again? Will I ever write another song again? Will anyone show up for tour?' I think it comes from being really poor as a kid.

  

  Neko Case
  • Up
  • Real
  • Dog

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

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Song

• I can picture guys sitting out in their yard, working in their yard, bending over to plant some trees or something, and half their crack shows, ... I mean, that's kind of one of the things that drew me into the song. The song talks about things that I grew up experiencing.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Plant

• Entertainers are nothing special. Maybe we have a talent for singing a song, but other people have talents. I wish fans would just come up and say 'hello' before asking for an autograph. I wish they would just say, 'Hello, I'm so and so, and I just want to shake your hand.' I'm impressed when I find people like that. Most people just say, 'Sign here,' and treat you like a statue.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Talent

• You're always remembering songs you wanna sing except when you're actually at karaoke.

  

  Sebastian Stan
  • Remember
  • Song
  • Karaoke

• It's the way I enjoy making art - I like sitting down and making five beats; I enjoy that process. I can go two weeks without making a song and just making beats and I'll be OK.

  

  J. Cole
  • Art
  • Song

• My song are more about the practical message of not wearing ourselves out just to get rich and looking at what life is really about and enjoying each and every day as opposed to the opposite of that. About living your life in a freer sense and not being bound by what people think of you and looking forward to seeing the grander scheme of who God is, what He's done and what He's doing and what He'd going to do.

  

  Peter Furler Newsboys
  • Life
  • Message
  • Enjoying

• If I'm focusing on playing and enjoying the song, then it always goes well. I get lost in the song, and the performance is so much better. If the focus becomes not making a mistake, then it just feels rigid to me.

  

  Marketa Irglova
  • Lost
  • Focus
  • Mistake

• There are pretty girls all over the place. But there are still a lot of people standing strong, doing their thing in loving relationships, actually staying true. I wanted to write an honest love song from that point of view.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • True
  • Pretty

• I'm not confident about my appearance, I'm not confident about anything really in my life, I'm a very tortured soul when it comes to self-confidence, but when it comes to my pop songs, if I started to question, I would never stop questioning.

  

  Torquil Campbell Broken Social Scene
  • Soul
  • Appearance
  • Questioning

• I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called 'Christmas in Heaven' about missing someone that you love that's passed on, and wondering what's going on up there on Christmas.

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Heaven

• There are producers that have been my friends for many years that I'm still a big fan of, from Boyz Noize to solo acts. Justice. It really varies. All the way to like...sometimes I'll just find some dude out of Chicago that makes a great house song. I'm feeling a lot of the deep house stuff, Jamie Jones.

  

  Alain Macklovitch
  • Great
  • Friends
  • House

• A song is the most intangible thing in the world.

  

  Jimmie Davis
  • World
  • Song

• And I don't even gotta make no goddamn sense, I just did a whole song and I didn't say shit!

  

  Eminem
  • Song

• Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong.

  

  Frederick William Faber
  • Song
  • Strong

• I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say?

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Song

• Well, I Am... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time thinking about what I was before the song was written.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Difficult

• I'm not deciding what the artist is going to write about because it's the artist. They're gonna have to sing that song for the rest of their life. When they're old and they're 80 and they have their show in Vegas, they're gonna have to sing that song for the rest of their life.

  

  Benny Blanco
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Vegas

• Songs always get better after you start playing them live.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Live
  • Song
  • Get Better

• All you gotta do is think of the song in your head. And it doesn't matter whether you can play it or not, you can get somebody to play it. With songs I've written, there's a song called "The Statue", which I can't play. There are songs that I've written that I've actually just hummed on - there's a song on one of the albums they have there on the Internet called "My Love Was True" and it's almost operatic. I can't play it. But I can sing it.

  

  Don McLean
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Internet

• In itself, I spent a year writing, you know all these different songs and when it came to recording the record, I just pulled out all the tracks I liked the most.

  

  Joseph Michael Poole
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Records

• I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

  

  Dorothy Fields
  • Good
  • Song

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