Song Quotes

• The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Up
  • Song
  • Failure

• It is a very serious consideration for a lyricist to step in there and suggest the meaning to a song. The music is speaking for itself.

  

  Al Jarreau
  • Music
  • Song
  • Serious

• Those emotions that are really strong, the ones that inspire a song, you can hold onto that. You can let it marinate for years and keep writing about it even better than you did then.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Strong

• Questions don't easily die within me until they're answered, and so being able to write a song and put words to complex feelings is part of my process of understanding and letting go of things.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Words
  • Die
  • Understanding

• I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn't really love the song.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Thinking
  • Couple
  • Marketplace

• Once I know a song really well, I can then have fun dancing.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Fun
  • Song

• Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or sweet or sad, As we choose to fashion the measure.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Music
  • God
  • Writing

• We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

  

  Graham Nash
  • Up
  • May
  • American

• If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl
  • Song

• Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Fall
  • Summer
  • Fly

• I remember I was at a press conference where somebody came up to me with absolute confidence, like he knew me forever, and whispered in my ear, 'You should sing a song now. The Indian audience will enjoy it. Your songs will improve India and Pakistan's relations.' I clarified to him that I wasn't Ali Zafar.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Forever

• Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... Someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Silence

• 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

• The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

  

  Alan Lomax
  • Song
  • Hand

• I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • Life
  • Night
  • Rest

• Writing 'This Is Who I Am...' I wanted to write a song about where I'm at, that I have accepted where I have come to and I wanted my fans to be able to connect to it too. I want them to stand proud!

  

  Vanessa Amorosi
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Proud

• Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, 'Oh, I'm on stage playing a song,' because you're daydreaming about something else, you're on autopilot. You have to fight that.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Song

• Anything is food for starting a song. A song can start with a lyric idea or a melody or just a sound that inspires.

  

  Alison Goldfrapp
  • Song
  • Food
  • Lyric

• That's why I'm very wise [in] the way I choose the remixes 'cuz I know that the song has to transcend well. You already have a base, instead of me just doing my own production and I don't have to start from scratch.

  

  Cedric Gervais
  • Production
  • Base
  • Transcend

• I wrote "Bootylicious" because, at the time, I’d gained some weight and the pressure that people put you under, the pressure to be thin, is unbelievable. I was just 18 and you shouldn’t be thinking about that. You should be thinking about building up your character and having fun and the song was just telling everyone just forget what people are saying. You’re bootylicious. That’s all. It’s a celebration of curves and a celebration of women’s bodies.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

  

  Vincente Minnelli
  • World
  • Important
  • Film

• Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Song

• You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things that you've felt. It's kind of impossible not to unless you're writing a song and there's an exact scenario that you're trying to write a song for.

  

  Harry Styles One Direction
  • Song
  • Inspiration
  • Write

• Not every song of Lynyrd Skynyrd's was a single, but songs like 'Tuesday's Gone' and 'The Ballad of Curtis Loew' and 'Made in the Shade,' 'I Need You,' people learned those songs from the radio because radio played albums, not just singles.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Song
  • Single
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

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