Song Quotes
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Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.
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I think particularly in music, popularity os a very fickle thing. You're only as good as your last song.
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I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.
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My idea was to release four four-song EPs, just like all the old Limey shoegaze bands used to do.
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We'll be in our 60s performing 'Push It' somewhere. Good old 'Push It.' I don't know what it is about that song.
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I don't think I'm that good a singer. I can't think of a song that I've written that I don't like the way somebody else sings it better.
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The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.
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For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.
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Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.
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Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.
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If I'm not crying while writing a song, I'm not doing it right.
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For me, with the Blue Man Group, I got asked. It was for the Royal Variety Show, which was something I always wanted to be a part of. I'm really interested in things people don't necessarily expect. I did a pop song, but I did it in my own style.
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A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit of the words. And a cabaret song gives the singer room to act, more even than an opera singer.
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I've had lots of friends who've gone through 'Battlefield' situations in their relationships, so when I was singing the song I put myself in their position and tried to imagine what they were going through. I got so, so into it and I think you can tell.
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Christmas in the Buckley household is hilarious - at the family dinner, we all have to do a song, no matter if you can sing in tune.
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For a song I was boughtNow I lie when I talkWith a careful eye on the cue card.Onto a stage I was pushed,With my sorrow well rehearsed.So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).
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The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't.
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I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!
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I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.
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If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?
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I've never put out a song that I wasn't completely proud of and that I didn't love. In that sense, I've never felt like I sold out in any way.
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When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached.
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My parents' generation was definitely pre-telly, and they knew how to entertain each other. Everybody knew something that they could do - a song or a poem, or a piece of music. At school, I remember being a cat and then a budgie and then a bumble bee. I obviously thought all that was marvelous.
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There's little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.
