Song Quotes

• In my fiction, there's a lot that's borrowed from music. It's never like I'm taking a lyric, but more the mood of a particular song. 'The Boy Detective Fails' was like listening to 'Eleanor Rigby' by The Beatles, this very melancholy-but-poppy song.

  

  Joe Meno
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Boy

• You kind of have to celebrate the moment that you get to create something that you love that falls into the parameters of a 3-minute-and-20-second song, to try to be creative inside of those parameters.

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • Song

• When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Kind

• I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We’re all going to have bummer moments. That’s not the stuff I choose to share.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Writing
  • Moments
  • Miserable

• 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

• Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • Song
  • Lost

• In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • People
  • Trying
  • Song

• I pinch myself every night when I hear the overture starting. I'm so overwhelmed by the whole process, and humbled and giddy all at the same time because I can't believe it's me that gets to sing these songs every night.

  

  Tituss Burgess
  • Believe
  • Night
  • Process

• I wrote these two songs ["Coming Out of the Dark" and "Always Tomorrow"] as a celebration of hope. And I want to send it out to all of those people who are suffering through this terrible disaster [Hurricane Katrina], and please know that you are not alone - and you will not be.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • People
  • Hope
  • Alone

• 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark.

  

  Jake Epstein
  • Pretty
  • Words
  • Dark

• The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted.

  

  Peter R. Grant
  • Song
  • Independent

• When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.

  

  Tommy Shaw Styx
  • Song
  • Continue
  • Euphoric

• I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Song

• I have no problem with people illegally downloading stuff. I'm not going to drive hard into 'You should buy my stuff,' because really, it's inevitable. If you like a song, you're going to download it for free. I have no problem with that.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • People
  • Song
  • Free

• Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Life
  • Song

• I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

  

  Alexander Smith
  • Song
  • Victory

• I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

  

  Ann Voskamp
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• For me, in the audition, the song that you choose should make you cry. It doesn't matter why: it could be because you're happy, but it gives you that feeling that you're overflowing.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Why
  • Happy
  • Feeling

• You don't appreciate home until you leave it and, let me tell you, you can't appreciate life till you've almost left it! Some people hope and die with their song still in them. I used to think that happiness resulted when my earnings matched my yearnings! But not anymore!

  

  Patsy Cline
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

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

  

  Wesley Borland Big Dumb Face
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Made

• I sometimes suffer from insomnia, and one of the first times it ever happened, I was like, 'I don't know what to do with myself,' so I started writing a song, and by morning, it was finished. It was about how I couldn't sleep... I was 14.

  

  Eliot Sumner
  • Writing
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• From a very early age, I started to get really interested in how songs were put to tape. Not just listening to the songs, but the way the songs were recorded.

  

  M. Ward
  • Age
  • Song
  • Listening

• There's political content in almost every song we've ever written on some level. It colors everything.

  

  Aaron Dessner The National
  • Song
  • Political
  • Content

• It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Song
  • Lyrics

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