Song Quotes

• I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first.

  

  Paul Taylor
  • Song

• I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Good
  • Great
  • Feeling

• I got a seven-year-old kid up on stage with me the other night and he knew every word to that song. Some people go their whole career without ever having a song anywhere near that big... When I first heard it I couldn't believe I didn't write the lyrics myself because it's the story of my life.

  

  Johnny Lee
  • Life
  • Song
  • Story

• Corinne Bailey Rae I listen to a lot, and I'll hear Desert Island Discs and quickly write down the name of a song, and it will open up a new area of music for me. I discovered an Argentinian guitarist, Jose Luis Bieito, on Classic FM.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Up
  • Music
  • Desert

• If I'm not crying while writing a song, I'm not doing it right.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Crying

• There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has been famous for centuries; there was a whole school of Iraqi poets who wrote poems about the wine bars of medieval Baghdad - the khamriyaat, or wine songs, that I quote in the book.

  

  Annia Ciezadlo
  • School
  • Book
  • Culture

• Even a song like 'Give Love,' in my head, there's a question as I'm writing it, going, 'Is this cheesy? Is it too on the nose to say 'give love?''

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Writing
  • Question
  • Cheesy

• I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. I crazily see the way out of a terrible situation. I crazily try to be the diplomat. If there are two warring factions in my life, I want them to agree to disagree at the very least.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Optimistic
  • Hopeless
  • Diplomat

• 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.

  

  Doug Aitken
  • Nature
  • Perfect
  • Travel

• I'm open to any kind of situation in a song as long as it touches my heart.

  

  Reba McEntire
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Song

• I don't like to write the same song twice.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Song

• 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

• I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music. I'm not sure if every song will be 'Take Me to Church,' but I can only hope that people enjoy the body of work that I have ahead of me.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and you're not really thinking about making a point one way or another about it. You're just coming up with a little scenario and seeing it through, and that's it.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Writing
  • Weird
  • Albums

• I'll never forget when me and Jason Matthews wrote the line, 'Don't be a tape player hater,' in 'Country Man,' I don't think I ever laughed harder. We didn't know where we were gonna put that in a song, but we knew we had to make it into a song. I just remember laughing and being so proud of such a goofy little line.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Proud

• I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Records

• I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Song
  • Crazy

• Most people don't really need to hear a six-minute guitar solo that modulates between five keys and time signatures. What they want is a good song.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• When I wanted to be a music teacher, I wanted to help people through voice. Now, I get to help people out through song.

  

  Khalid
  • People
  • Music
  • Help

• I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual

  

  Janice Fyffe
  • Music
  • Song
  • Deep

• I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Art
  • Pretty
  • Shoes

• I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night while on my trip, just pouring out new songs and new stories about what I was seeing, what I was feeling.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Night

• What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple stream-of-consciousness stuff in my songs. What I'm trying to get across is misinterpreted.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Simple

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