Song Quotes
-
One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist.
Michael Bolton
-
I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead vocals from behind the drums in different bands that I'd been in, and I'd gotten great responses for the songs I would sing. I really started pursuing the possibility of being a lead singer based on the fact that I was working a full-time restaurant job and then playing gigs at night, hauling drums around. One day, it just dawned on me that, 'Hey, I could be in a band and be the singer, and it would be a lot easier!'
Chris Cornell
Soundgarden
-
Somebody told me about a band that works out their whole set as if it was one song. They learn the whole set as one piece, so they know how the dynamics of it work. It's really difficult to do, and you can only really do it while you're on tour, as being in a rehearsal studio is not the same as being on stage in front of an audience.
Winston Marshall
Mumford & Sons
-
I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you have to work within, and at the same time you want to do something that's personally original and hopefully somewhat unique.
John Oates
Daryl Hall & John Oates
-
Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.
Jenna Dewan
-
I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!
Colin Trevorrow
-
I just listen to quite random songs; I don't like really particular artists or bands.
Oliver Sim
The xx
-
I remember my first standup act when I was seventeen; I did a really lame song about being flat chested. I was doing it in New York, and I remember Kevin Brennan, the guy I lost my virginity to, was like "That song doesn't make sense, you have tits."
Sarah Silverman
-
I only performed a song so I could not write an essay. I just enjoyed being around bands, and around musicians, and, I didn't want to be the girl who followed the band around. I love singing, I love performing, but it's never been this goal.
Caitlin Rose
-
I'm never too ambitious when I go into the studio. I always know that I'm just going into the studio to work on or try to develop an idea that I have for a song.
Tom Scholz
Boston
-
Once I've got something that I feel is strong, if I get long enough to think about it, it'll turn into something. I'll start thinking about the drums - what the drums are doing, what the bass is doing. Then, if I can remember it by the time I get to a recording device, it'll turn into a song.
Kevin Parker
Tame Impala
-
A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like the glue to everything.
Nikki Sixx
Mötley Crüe
-
I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.
Jason Mraz
-
It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
Weird Al Yankovic
-
God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.
Martin Gore
Depeche Mode
-
I'm a very message-oriented artist, and each song has a totally different meaning.
Claudia Lee
-
It's better to find a composition through an instrument and to play it and record it because you have something. It's a composition, and the song is good. It lives as a song. The worst is when you have a song and nothing is working well when you produce it. It's not like what you expect in your imagination. It's the worst because it requires a lot of work.
Nicolas Godin
Air
-
One thing that I like to do is use words that have never actually been used in a rap song before. I also like to take words that have negative connotations and show their real meaning.
Kanye West
