Song Quotes

• I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Stuff

• The ancient media of speech and song and theater were radically reshaped by writing, though they were never entirely supplanted, a comfort perhaps to those of us who still thrill to the smell of a library.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Library

• No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula... to an extent, there isn't a science to writing great songs, I suppose. For me, it's always about melody - it doesn't matter what genre of music you're writing, if there's a strong melodic thing somewhere, whether that's in a vocal or in a guitar part or a sample. Something that sticks in your brain, that seems to be something that works.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• 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

• 'They Don't Care About Us' by Michael Jackson - This song makes me want to dance, and I fell in love with it watching 'This Is It' with my kids.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Kids
  • Dance
  • Michael Jackson

• I wrote my first song, 'Conversion', to this little hip-hop instrumental. I went to an open-mic, plugged my iPod into the P.A., and sang over the beat.

  

  Leon Bridges
  • Song

• I grew up listening to an album start to finish, and you don't skip songs. You don't listen to a Paul Simon record and skip a song: you listen to it the same way you would eat a meal... the way the person who prepared that meal for you means for you to experience it. That's how you should do it before you add salt and pepper to it.

  

  Ashley McBryde
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Listening

• A lot of early Misfits song titles are inspired by old B-movies, which were my Popeye's spinach when I was a kid.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Song
  • Inspired

• Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.

  

  Peter R. Grant
  • Song

• Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • Music
  • Song

• I don't think you ever write a song with any intention except the song's about such and such per say ... we've never written a song and thought 'oh it'd be great if in this part this happened in the audience'.

  

  Al Barr
  • Think
  • Song
  • Write

• The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of long, song-filled voyages, high winds and lonely sunsets.

  

  Qurratulain Hyder
  • Long
  • High
  • Lonely

• That song ["Money to Burn"] is me being a fly on the wall in situations in LA. I mean, I've seen the way a lot of people operate and I've seen that sort of thing go down. There's a lot of rich kids with a little bit of extra money.

  

  Ladyhawke
  • People
  • Money
  • Kids

• I began writing 'The Cold Song' in the months following my father's death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: 'What now? How to proceed?'

  

  Linn Ullmann
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Father

• You don't have to be a cheater to sing a cheatin' song, that's what I'm saying.

  

  George Strait
  • Song

• To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.

  

  Margaret Millar
  • World
  • Mind
  • Lost

• The interesting thing is that, well, here's what I think about songwriters and songs. Sometimes people sit down and say, "I gotta write a song today, I have a title" and all of that, and sometimes inspiration just happens, almost like "Sugar, Sugar" and a couple of the other songs. But basically, I just started playing the piano, and I'm not a great piano player.

  

  Andy Kim
  • Inspiration
  • Write
  • Piano

• I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• There are loads of fan sites for the 'Edge,' including deviant art, song lyrics using 'Edge' language, multiple entries on Wikipedia, there are even some 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' games all about the 'Edge.'

  

  Chris Riddell
  • Art
  • Song
  • Lyrics

• In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Today
  • Song

• I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Friends
  • Wind
  • Tree

• The beauty of music is that everyone hears it their own way, and every song you hear leaves an impression on you that alters the way you hear everything from that point on.

  

  JC Chasez NSYNC
  • Music
  • Song

• Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean, who doesn't like to watch a nice gory murder film on TV?

  

  Valerie June
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Mean

• The song 'My Way' is a very remarkable song. It is also difficult to sing because you've got to convince people that what you're singing about is the truth. It's a man who is very proud of having achieved everything that he's achieved his way.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • People
  • Truth
  • Proud

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