Song Quotes

• There's no real high like finishing a new song, playing it a thousand times in your car, and freaking out with your co-writers.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Real
  • High
  • Car

• Do me a favor... Stand up, walk to wherever the nearest window is, and just look outside. You may not know this, but there's an entire planets-worth of summers, friends, sunsets, street lamps, songs, late nights, great films, and night skies waiting for you. Your life is as amazing as you want it to be, but first, you have to let it be that way.

  

  Backseat Goodbye
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I'm a very message-oriented artist, and each song has a totally different meaning.

  

  Claudia Lee
  • Different
  • Song

• Walt Disney was a great believer in the use of song to convey story. He was primarily a storyman & story-driven songs were his 'pets.' He always asked what was going on with the song - he hated 'singing heads.' He loved learning about character & motivation thru music & lyrics.

  

  Richard Sherman
  • Character
  • motivation
  • Believer

• Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • Work
  • Song
  • Technology

• A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Song
  • Lament

• You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.

  

  Nelly
  • Song

• I just never really thought of not being involved, because when I write the songs I take them to a certain place and by that point I kinda know what I want them to sound like.

  

  Tom Odell
  • Writing
  • Sound
  • Certain

• 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
  • Work
  • Song

• But I would dance with my daughter if I could. And if I can dance with Shilpa Shetty, then I will do that- (On being asked in an interview whether it was suitable for a man his age to dance in a song in the film Lal Badshah with Shilpa Shetty, who was young enough to be his daughter).

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Age
  • Dance
  • Daughter

• For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Song
  • Words
  • Moving

• If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• 'The First Time' is a song that I wrote by myself on my front porch, in real-time, as that situation was happening to me.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Time
  • Real
  • Song

• In that little practice room, no, I had no idea what would come of this little song. But it changed everything for us – it cemented the deal with Geffen – I could sense that everyone was much nicer to us after they heard that song!

  

  Jack Hues Wang Chung
  • Song
  • Deal
  • Heard

• I can't sing a love song Like the way it's meant to be Well, I guess I'm not that good anymore But baby, that's just me

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Good
  • Way
  • Baby

• Defining something being a Fleetwood Mac song is calling it a Fleetwood Mac song, you know? Nothing becomes Fleetwood Mac until that's what you call it.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Song

• There is another sort of day which needs celebrating in song -- the day of days when spring at last holds up her face to be kissed, deliberate and unabashed. On that day no wind blows either in the hills or in the mind.

  

  E. B. White
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Wind

• Anytime an artist puts your name in a song, it's unbelievable. It never gets old.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Song

• 'The Shepherd Boy’s Song', in Part II, Ch. VI : The Valley of Humiliation; comparable to: 'I am not now in fortune's power: He that is down can fall no lower', Samuel Butler, Hudibras (1663), Part i, Canto iii, Line 877

  

  John Bunyan
  • Power
  • Fall
  • Boy

• I know all my different formulas to get certain sounds. I've been doing this so long that I don't experiment anymore. Or let me rephrase: I've been doing this so long that I don't have to experiment as much. You always want to evolve and change, but if I go in and I know it's a certain type of song, I know exactly where I'm going to place the mics.

  

  Adrian Younge
  • Different
  • Long
  • Song

• 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
  • Up
  • Good
  • Song

• You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Song
  • Wall

• I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Song

• 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

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