Song Quotes

• 'Wanna Be That Song' has everything I want to say about love and about what I'm trying to be. I wanna be that part of your life, that song that means so much to you, the one that takes you back to that special place... the song that makes you laugh, the song that makes you cry when you need to cry, that makes you dance when you need to dance.

  

  Brett Eldredge
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Dance

• I love writing songs with people, which is about really taking risks, throwing yourself over the falls and really seeing what you're made of and seeing how it sticks. Seeing how others react to it, and seeing also how it can become a melody and how it can really take off from your experience. It's a way of seeing life unfold on the page before me.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up.

  

  Wesley Borland Big Dumb Face
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Made

• As you can imagine, over the years I have been asked many times to discuss and explain my song "American Pie." I have never discussed the lyrics, but have admitted to the Holly reference in the opening stanzas. You will find many interpretations of my lyrics but none of them by me. You will find many “interpretations” of my lyrics but none of them by me. Isn’t this fun? Sorry to leave you all on your own like this but long ago I realized that songwriters should make their statements and move on, maintaining a dignified silence.

  

  Don McLean
  • Long
  • American
  • Fun

• When a song is written, depending on who wrote what, the percentage split between the writers and performers must be agreed. In a democracy, e.g. New Order, it was all split into quarters, 25 per cent each, and the same for the performance royalties. This stayed the same up until Republic, when Barney decided he wanted more, and truth be told, he deserved it. He was doing two jobs.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Democracy
  • Performers
  • Deserved

• We, as a band, are going to try to do a remix pack for some of our latest songs and do as much as we can. Every single that we release gets that. That's the thing that we enjoy. You meet a lot of talented producers and DJs, you revisit friends and ask them if they want to do a remix, that's one of the beauties in it right now: hearing different versions of our versions and just being able to put those out, as well.

  

  Christian Karlsson Bloodshy & Avant
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Enjoy

• I'm the same guy at that podium preaching to the people on every single song. I'm not doing a dance for you on another song. It's all a direct assault.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • People
  • Guy
  • Single

• Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

  

  David Sylvian
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Challenge

• 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

• The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • God
  • Artist
  • motivation

• 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

• I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Demonstration
  • Pub
  • Obligalion

• 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

• 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

• What was life has crumbled. What was form, now falls away. Mortal chains unbind and the soul s free. May you find your way to the ancestors. May you find your path to the gods. May your bravery and courage be remembers in song and story, May your parents be proud, and ma our children carry your birthright. Sleep, and wander no more.

  

  Yasmine Galenorn
  • Life
  • Children
  • May

• Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Sad

• 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

• I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the song. That's why we have so many people in the music business who should be plumbers. They don't really understand music because they haven't been trained.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Music
  • Why

• You want the song to be at least at the same level of goodness throughout. Whereas with something you're doing live, a song dips and rises and that can actually be worked to the song's benefit.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Live
  • Song

• I think music is an intuitive force. It's this beautiful wave that connects all of us and inspires us, and I think music has the ability - when you listen to a song, you're not immediately thinking about the lyrics or what's going on in the mind of the writer, you're feeling the song.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Music
  • Ability
  • Force

• I still enjoy having my own idea about what a song means. I don't know if I'd have liked having videos on TV when I was growing up. I always found my own mental images to be very strong and appealing. I hope that we're not limiting the imaginations of the fans out there.

  

  Steve Clark Def Leppard
  • Enjoy
  • Fans
  • Imaginations

• 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

• Branding your song is the worst thing you can ever do. That's turning your song into a product.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Song

• Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Song

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