Song Quotes

• 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

• There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.

  

  Masanobu Fukuoka
  • Time
  • Song
  • Farmer

• I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Up
  • Sing
  • Gospel

• I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Knows

• I do - very specifically, I remember Bessie Smith; I used to collect 78 records that I would buy from the St Vincent de Paul store at five cents apiece, and I did this indiscriminately. I would just take whatever was there. And I listened to Patti Page and Walter Huston, 'September Song.'

  

  August Wilson
  • Remember
  • Song
  • September

• I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Song

• I think particularly in music, popularity os a very fickle thing. You're only as good as your last song.

  

  Tom Odell
  • Song
  • Popularity

• Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.

  

  Dionne Warwick
  • Time
  • Work
  • Song

• The friends that have it I do wrong Whenever I remake a song, Should know what issue is at stake: It is myself that I remake.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Friendship
  • Issues
  • Crafts

• Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Long
  • Fashion
  • Loss

• My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything. If I can sit down and write an amazing song with my guitar about what's going on in life, then that's the greatest therapy for me.

  

  Miley Cyrus
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Amazing

• There has to be a song. There are too many dark nights, too many troublesome days, and too many wearisome miles. Somewhere deep in the forgotten corner of one’s heart- there has to be a song. Like a cool, clear drink of water and like the gentle warmth of sunshine, and like the tender love of a child, there has to be a song!

  

  Bob Benson
  • Love
  • Child
  • Troublesome

• If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Together

• It's just weird that for some people, art is a luxury. My parents had no artistic outlet. Some people pass down music to their kids, but I couldn't tell you what my mom's or dad's favorite song is. So when I started going out into the world, I was drawn to people who knew about movies, art, even fashion.

  

  Channing Tatum
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• 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

• Music became less understandable in the wake of the new MTV era. You weren't supposed to be anything other than a pop star, to not go deeper than that. It was really strange. It was suffocating, image-wise. What you could talk about in a song changed; if you were misunderstood, you were really misunderstood - taken literally.

  

  Ann Wilson Heart
  • Music
  • Taken
  • Star

• The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Song
  • Irrational
  • Realm

• Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.

  

  Euripides
  • Song
  • Joy
  • Cheerfulness

• At the end of the day, I'm just trying to write a song that I like, that I'm not afraid to turn loose on the world. I do read a lot. I know a lot of people who read more, but I do try to keep a book in my hand most of the time, and I think that informs any kind of output that I'm going to have.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Music makes my blood flow. I don't know anyone who doesn't have a favorite song. I just want to be the messenger.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Music
  • Song
  • Blood flow

• To tell you the truth, I used an Instagram filter called Ginza to share a snippet of the song - I simply left the name in the caption in case anyone wanted to use the same filter. But everyone started calling the song 'Ginza.'

  

  J Balvin
  • Truth
  • Song

• I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Up
  • Long
  • Goodness

• I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Writing
  • Serious
  • Poetry

• Usually a song being hard to write is a sign that the song isn't good enough. It should be like a good kiss. Effortless and smooth.

  Nanna Øland Fabricius
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Kiss

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