Song Quotes

• I remember when I was 5 or 6 years old, gospel music felt familiar, like I had heard it in the womb or something. A lot of those old gospel songs still give me that feeling, that it's older than time and there's actually music that can tap into a universal subconscious, or whatever word you want to put on it.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Music
  • Remember

• I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Writing
  • Hard
  • Singers

• Most of the time when people work with an artist, they don't give them what they need for the future, they give them what their last album sounded like. So it's like, 'Oh, One Republic needs a song, why don't we send them 10 that sound like 'Apologize?'

  

  Benny Blanco
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.

  

  Sheryl Crow
  • Believe
  • Song

• It's rather nice to think that a song such as 'What Kind of Fool Am I?' is a standard that will be around for many, many years.

  

  Anthony Newley
  • Song
  • Nice
  • Fool

• I was in 'Jacques Brel' Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete surprise. I had never written a song in my life. We were on the road with 'Jacques Brel' doing the national tour, and I picked up a guitar one day and I wrote a song.

  

  Amanda McBroom
  • Life
  • Up
  • Singing

• When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.

  

  Martin Gore Depeche Mode
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Song

• It is very unnatural to dance while playing the violin. I had to practice so hard to learn how to do it, but now it is part of my expression, and it comes naturally. I have to know a song perfectly before I can even begin to move.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Song
  • Practice
  • Dance

• It's like freedom of speech - they can't tell you not to do it. When no one will put you on at a club or venue, you can go to the street, just start singing, and get a lot of good feedback from people as they walk by. I got really good at lip reading and seeing if a song is working. It was a good way to start.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Good
  • Freedom

• 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

• I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.

  

  Matt Berninger The National
  • Together
  • Forever
  • Personality

• I have a song I wrote called “Autobiography.” I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs and not having a lot of money. So I always want to talk about the real things. But I think 90 percent of my music, I want it to be 'feel-good music'. I'm already recording tracks for my album, but when it comes time to actually say, 'this is the album,' I may be in a completely different space than I'm in right now.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to hear it one day. So when you go into the studio, you don't see the hundreds of people at a gig or the viewers on TV, you just write a song without any inhibitions or boundaries.

  

  Jessie J
  • People
  • World
  • Understanding

• 'Somebody That I Used to Know' by Goyte has an odd, '80s vibe to it, but that does not mean that I did not like it. Quite the opposite actually. The song is different, and slowly lured me in. The video is just as strange, but definitely enjoyable.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
  • Different
  • Song

• I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Hand

• It was always very important for us that we presented ourselves as a band, because it's a three-part writing process and it's a three-part decision making process, it's not two producer guys and a girl that sings the songs. It's startling how many people make that assumption.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • People
  • Important
  • Writing

• The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.

  

  Kelly Jones
  • Pretty
  • Cold
  • Paris

• A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.

  

  Dorothy Fields
  • Song

• Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Fun

• Every single song on 'Torches' was a little self-contained pop song, so there wasn't any fat on the songs; there wasn't a lot to cut.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Song
  • Single

• 'Wanna Be That Song' has everything I want to say about love and about what I'm trying to be. I wanna be that part of your life, that song that means so much to you, the one that takes you back to that special place... the song that makes you laugh, the song that makes you cry when you need to cry, that makes you dance when you need to dance.

  

  Brett Eldredge
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Dance

• My favorite song as a boy was definitely 'Downtown' recorded by Petula Clark. I still love it! And the original cast recording of 'Gypsy'; I played my mother's cast recordings until there was no vinyl left.

  

  Bryan Batt
  • Mother
  • Boy
  • Gypsy

• I can't write a lie; the world of imagination is no good. I objectively capture my own experiences and those of my friends. I want to put true feelings into words. If I make a song when I'm sad, it's a dark one, but I think that's good. No matter when I want to be true to myself.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • World
  • Good
  • Friends

• The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.

  

  Phil Collen Def Leppard
  • Write
  • Rewarding
  • Forgets

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