Song Quotes
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Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.
Nadia Ali
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I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.
Mac DeMarco
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Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my relationship with myself, my relationship with God or an idea, and then usually somebody, a real person. I try to operate on all three levels at the same time, and it's difficult, but I never want to have a break-up song or something like that.
Jose James
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
Harry Belafonte
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'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.
Gary Numan
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The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up.
Denis Norden
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
Zara Larsson
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Where you go, I go,
What you see, I see,
I know I'd never be me without the security,
Are your loving arms keeping me from harm
Put your hands in my hand & we'll stand.
Adele
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When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
Viktor E. Frankl
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When I was about 14, I got a tacky keyboard for 250 pounds and put on a drum machine and found I could write a song.
Dolores O'Riordan
The Cranberries
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He made me mess the song up when I looked at him... We can show the kids the tape and say, 'Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other.'
Edie Brickell
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I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.
Kara DioGuardi
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People have so much going on in their heads. I'm like, If you could write a song, you'd feel so much better!
Billie Eilish
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
Nanci Griffith
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I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.
Kari Matchett
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She gets rock n roll, a rock n roll stationAnd a rock n roll dream.She's making movies on location.She don't know what it means.But the music make her wanna be the story.And the story was whatever was the song, what it was.Rollergirl don't worry.D.J. plays the movies all night long.
Mark Knopfler
Dire Straits
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There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.
Mac Davis