Song Quotes

• Def Jam, they've shown nothing but love as far as supporting my records. We haven't missed yet, radio-wise, and every song that they've actually tried to support has been No. 1.

  

  Jeremih Felton
  • Song
  • Support
  • Wise

• If you can whistle the melody, then the song will stick. But if you need a bunch of machines to make it sound good, you're probably not writing anything that's going to last a long time.

  

  James McBride
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I like singing in harmony - I like not having to sing every song.

  

  Susanna Hoffs
  • Song
  • Singing

• I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

  

  Manika
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Person

• I feel like if it's a good song on a guitar, it's a good song no matter what.

  

  Astrid S
  • Good
  • 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

• The songs will come as they come, and I'm excited because I haven't gotten to be really creative in a while. I'm excited to get back and do what I do and just write a song.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Song

• We're a live band. Some bands write their songs in the studio - we don't do that. We're playing songs on this tour that were written three days before the tour. And it feels good to try these songs.

  

  Carey Mercer
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Song

• When it comes time to where the new album gets closer, I start singing the song a cappella; I'll preview it on my Snapchat and get creative with it - just kind of bringing everybody into more than just listening to the record on album.

  

  Brett Eldredge
  • Time
  • Singing
  • Listening

• My favorite song is 'Cybele's Reverie' by Stereolab.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Song

• I wouldn't say the purpose of making art is to enjoy it necessarily. For me, it happens to be the thing I enjoy the most. I don't even know what the purpose of art is really, I just know that is something that makes me feel satisfied in a way that other things don't. That's all I know, that's why I like to write songs and films or draw. I just like to make things and somehow I find it gives me a feeling of satisfaction that I can't find in other areas of my life.

  

  Sean Lennon
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Giving

• You know, a lot of people have an instinct to downplay the fact that they are performing and be, like, 'There is no theatre here. This is just me playing the songs.' At some point I just realised how much better it could be if you weren't shy about being a performer.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Theatre
  • Instinct
  • Performing

• Every time I turn on the radio, I must be on the wrong song or something. But, to be honest, since I went on the road back in 1970, I didn't listen to radio music because I didn't want to subconsciously steal somebody's stuff.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Road

• I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound, in my mind, like I haven't written it. That's when I'm satisfied.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Mind
  • Week
  • Minutes

• HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Family
  • Heart
  • Broken

• 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

• My heart's never smiled so hard Baby. Lovin' you is fun.

  

  Easton Corbin
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Baby

• A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song.

  

  Albert Murray
  • American
  • Song
  • Popular

• I just want to be in the studio 24/7. Even if I'm not working on a song right then, just sit in the studio. That's what I love.

  

  Kiara Saulters
  • Song

• All my song writing starts in same form, I have so many scraps of choruses and verses and voice recordings and actual recordings, which then often conceptualises as a rhythmic and melodic and a delivery thing.

  

  Nick Waterhouse
  • Voice
  • Form
  • Rhythmic

• 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 had a long distance relationship going while we were writing the album so a lot of it is about that constant struggle— you look up at the moon and wonder if that person is looking at it too. I was trying to write love songs that weren’t sappy Ben Affleck movie songs, but kind of a … man’s love songs

  

  Caleb Followill
  • Writing
  • Struggle
  • Moon

• You know, there are times when you play a song over and over and over and you get a little tired of it and you let it sit for a while. It's like, you may love eating sushi, but if you eat it every single day, you're going to get a little tired of it.

  

  Les Claypool
  • May
  • Single
  • Tired

• People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • People
  • Song
  • Way

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