Song Quotes

• The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • World
  • Small
  • Kiss

• The whole industry evolves around a great song.

  

  Michael Bolton
  • Great
  • Song

• If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion in any way, you shouldn't be the least bit uncomfortable giving it to them. People want songwriters to tell them how they think and how they feel. That's what a song is. That's what I want to hear in a song.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • People
  • Giving
  • Opinion

• I never want to listen to the songs in front of people close to me. There's an emotional honesty in that place where it's not earnest but it's vulnerable.

  

  Yannis Philippakis
  • People
  • Emotional
  • Honesty

• I've felt love from certain songs that I've wanted to experience from other people - where I know that love may never happen - and I want to give that to someone else.

  

  Cold Cave
  • May
  • Happens
  • Certain

• Don't get me wrong: there are aspects of buying music online that I love. Instantly being able to hear a song the moment it crosses your mind? Where's the downside? However, I do feel for those too young to remember the thrill of going record shopping.

  

  John Niven
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Remember

• It's a humbling and amazing journey when you write a song in your bedroom, and you've got no money, and you're trying to write a song based on where you're at right at this moment.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Amazing

• In terms of the music, it feels almost like trouble's a good thing - you never know when a song is going to surprise you. We look for these subversive moments in songs.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Good
  • Music
  • Moments

• Music has changed. You can just throw songs out on iTunes song by song; you don't have to do a whole album.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • Music
  • Song

• Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Dance

• You want the song to be at least at the same level of goodness throughout. Whereas with something you're doing live, a song dips and rises and that can actually be worked to the song's benefit.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Live
  • Song

• Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd heard 'Silver Machine' but Russell Senior, who was in Pulp, got me into them. They had a song called 'Master Of The Universe' and we nicked the title in 1985 for one of our songs.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • People
  • Universe
  • Senior

• Justin Hayward was a teenager when he was drafted into the Moody Blues in 1966. He brought with him one song he had written for his girlfriend. This was called 'Nights in White Satin,' which subsequently made a fortune for a lot of people.

  

  David Hepworth
  • People
  • Teenager
  • Girlfriend

• You could hear a song, and if you didn't like it, well, you didn't listen to it.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Song
  • Listen
  • Hear

• A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones..." and that's it.

  

  Alex Scally Beach House
  • People
  • Song
  • Listening

• I suddenly thought about being backstage, and I think it shocks you to meet the people you shared your bedrooms with. And a lot of them either take themselves too seriously or don't know how to take themselves at all. But I wanted to be aware in a very sarcastic way that every song I've written has probably been written about 12-16 times before. And doing that makes it very hard for me to accept serious singer-songwriters in the world, the up-and-comers, the ones who are out there who let that define their every move, who live and die and breathe for it. It's a bit of a tragedy, I think.

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Moving

• I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Boy

• When I started this song I was still thirty-three The age that Mozart died and sweet Jesus was set free Keats and Shelley too soon finished, Charley Parker would be And I fantasized some tragedy'd be soon curtailing me Well just today I had my birthday I made it thirty-four Mere mortal, not immortal, not star-crossed anymore I've got this problem with my aging I no longer can ignore A tame and toothless tabby can't produce a lion's roar.

  

  Harry Chapin
  • Age
  • Jesus
  • Mozart died

• I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Heart
  • My Heart
  • Interpreter

• I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all. I'm still planning to write better songs.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Writing
  • Feels
  • Planning

• I am deeply saddened to hear about the passing of one of my all time heroes, George Jones. Georges' music was real and he was able to touch thousands through his songs. Not only was he a great singer, but he also had the ability to make you relate to every one of his songs, no matter who you are. He and his music will remain timeless in the world of country music. My thoughts and prayers are with his family through this difficult time.

  

  Easton Corbin
  • World
  • Country
  • Real

• I wrote 'Don't Stop' just like I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' - I didn't try to make either a hit. I just wanted to write a song I liked.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Up
  • Song
  • Stop

• I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Up
  • Long
  • Goodness

• Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know. -Songs of Sapphique

  

  Catherine Fisher
  • Eye
  • Tree
  • Lying

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