Song Quotes

• I married a musician, music is everywhere I turn, thankfully. Yeah, a lot of times the ideas for a movie, or even the way I cast a movie, comes from driving around in my car and listening to tapes and thinking, 'Kate Hudson floating on a Joni Mitchell song.' That's a good scene.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Good
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I think the more that I can find myself getting out of the way - like you said yourself - trying to get out of thinking too much, and sometimes something truly special can happen. That's the beautiful mystery of song writing - that you really don't know where these songs come from exactly, and you don't know how you came up with them - and god bless it that you should have the gift of channeling that.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Up
  • God
  • Thinking

• Song in the Manner of Housman" O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore let us act as if we were dead already. The bird sits on the hawthorn tree But he dies also, presently. Some lads get hung, and some get shot. Woeful is this human lot. Woe! woe, etcetera.... London is a woeful place, Shropshire is much pleasanter. Then let us smile a little space Upon fond nature's morbid grace. Oh, Woe, woe, woe, etcetera.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Human
  • Born
  • Grace

• That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unaging intellect.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Country
  • Death
  • Summer

• 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 think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn't really love the song.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Thinking
  • Couple
  • Marketplace

• You always gotta reach the people who feel bad about themselves or insecure about themselves, and I think 'Like 'Em All' was just a perfect song for all the girls, and I think that's why it blew up like it did.

  

  Jacob Latimore
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• It's not enough to play a song: you have to inhabit it.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Play
  • Enough
  • Inhabit

• I love listening to the radio because there's something about that discovery, that platform, still being the main medium. And it is changing with streaming services, but I like to listen to what people are listening to and figure out why is this song so catchy.

  

  Maren Morris
  • People
  • Why
  • Listening

• 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

• You hear a song like 'Wait For It,' you hear a song like 'Dear Theodosia' - if you get one of those songs in a musical - one - it's worth dropping everything to sing that one song.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Song

• If I come across an issue, or something I feel strongly about, and I happen to think of a song that would go in that direction, then I do it. But that's not what I start out, necessarily, to do. Sometimes I may have an idea for a song - "Well, I'm going to write about a thing.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • May

• I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.

  

  Andrae Crouch
  • Song

• I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • Singing
  • Mood
  • Holiday

• Everything needs to be catchy because a listener is either going to stay with the song or lose interest in the first five seconds. But people also like those songs they can relate to and say, 'Yeah, I went through that.'

  

  Benny Blanco
  • People
  • Song

• Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

  

  Martin Gore Depeche Mode
  • Art
  • Quality
  • Dark

• New York is the place where they bind books and write blurbs and arrange the publicity and print the galleys... But Chicago is the place where the book is lived out before it is bound and the song is sung before it is recorded.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Book
  • Song
  • Chicago

• My strength as a singer is my versatility. I find it really frustrating when I'm only expected to show off. The music industry is awash with female acrobats. What happens to the song, and treating it for its sake and not as an ego example?

  

  Alison Moyet
  • Music
  • Song
  • Ego

• You can see the vibrant color of a flower and smell its beautiful scent. But when you truly come to know a flower you will also hear its song.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Know
  • See
  • Flower

• When you write a hit song, and you know it when it's done, it's one of the best feelings in the world.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • World
  • Done
  • Song

• 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

• I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • American
  • History
  • Clever

• I don't do sessions for myself ever. I'm always working, writing for pop sessions. And what happens is that sometimes I like a song so much, I keep it for myself.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Writing
  • Song

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