Song Quotes

• It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.

  

  Leon Redbone
  • Song
  • Single

• As a songwriter, I do kind of look at 'Santa Monica' as a thing outside of itself, because it isn't just my song. This is a song a lot of people tell me is a part of their high school or college years. That means a lot to me.

  

  Art Alexakis
  • People
  • School
  • High

• I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Country
  • Fun
  • Girl

• I would say Tracy Chapman was the first time I obsessed over an entire record. I knew every song; I knew the exact amount of seconds between each song. That's the level of obsession that I had.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Time
  • Song

• Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings up from sand gravel soil through straw bamboo wood and less tangible elements Power song for the hands Healing song for the senses what can and cannot be perceived of the soul.

  

  Olga Broumas
  • Up
  • Power
  • Soul

• I've had a lot of fans come up to me and say, 'I love the video song.' It's like it's a soundtrack recording or something. We'll never forget that the music comes first. I sometimes find video a little distasteful for that reason. People associate a band with their video images rather than with the music they produce, that's a little scary.

  

  Steve Clark Def Leppard
  • Fans
  • Produce
  • Images

• There was a lot of Pac haters, but I definitely love Pac. I wish I got to do a song with him.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • Song
  • Wish
  • Haters

• 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

• I really like and singing, and songwriting and producing. It depends on the song and the mood and who I'm working with, what the song is about and where it came from, any number of things affect the levels of creativity. I try not to do too much delineating with my art. Really, it's art, so for me I don't have a most, I just really enjoy my entire process.

  

  Lalah Hathaway
  • Art
  • Singing
  • Creativity

• Layne Thomas StaleyThe songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
  • Thinking
  • Song

• I used to have to come home and write and then record work tapes of those new songs. So now I can do it all on the road and that has been a huge difference that has happened in 2016. It is the only way for me to really balance. There is a lot of overhead, but it's a big investment towards being a dad and a husband, which is ultimately my number one goal.

  

  Granger Smith
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Dad

• I listen to everything and find parts about a song in the lyrics/melody/chords/production that I like and can be inspired by when I write my next song.

  

  Astrid S
  • Song
  • Inspired
  • Lyrics

• I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Song
  • Entertainer
  • Fridge door

• You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Knows
  • Records
  • Might

• I wouldn't want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality.

  

  Freida Pinto
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Dance

• My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about this.' But love and heartbreak are some of the most abstract subjects.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Song
  • Purpose
  • Heartbreak

• The first song I wrote was called 'You,' and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist.

  

  Courtney Barnett
  • Song

• I really love 'Cold Song.' If anyone really listens to that song and thinks about their life, there's a lot of good material deep down in there. I think if you listen to the lyrics, it may take you on some sort of a journey.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Life
  • Good
  • Journey

• There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships.

  

  Lisa Loeb
  • Music
  • Different
  • Writing

• I would say it's always been in me to want to have victorious songs. I sort of want my songs to have a feeling of victory, but through a lot of pain. Like, you're 75 percent to the top of the mountain and sometimes you fall back to the bottom, but hopefully by the end of the record you'll feel like there's no mountain at all.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • Feeling
  • Fall
  • Pain

• When Frank Zappa would get an idea for a song, he just did it. He didn't wait for anybody or expect anyone to do it.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Ideas
  • Waiting
  • Frank

• As a songwriter, I try not to be sloppy; same with the music. You can be very lean, very efficient, so you're not wasting a lot of time getting' to the point. You're saying it with as pure a word or phrase as you can. That's the part that was craft. You refine and refine and refine. Maybe that's why the songs still hang on, because they're very pure. For one thing, they're very short. "Bad Moon Rising" is like 2 minutes and 12 seconds. I would try to do everything as quickly and with as little extra as possible. It was a challenge.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Moon

• As a white male in America, I have privilege. As a white male who happens to be an artist with a fan base, I have a platform to spread awareness about that privilege. However, songs about race and privilege are very difficult to A) write and B) dissect as a listener. They're heavy.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Writing
  • America
  • Artist

• In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing; I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience. The album is an overview of birth to now.

  

  Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • House

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