Song Quotes

• But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.

  

  Don McLean
  • Good
  • Song

• A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called 'True Friend'.

  

  Miley Cyrus
  • True
  • Song
  • Friend

• Ancient one sleeping, waiting to rise When earth's power bleeds sacred red The mark strikes true; Queen Tsi Sgili will devise He shall be washed from his entombing bed Through the hand of the dead he is free Terrible beauty, monstrous sight Ruled again they shall be Women shall kneel to his dark might Kalona's song sounds sweet As we slaughter with cold heat

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Women
  • Power
  • True

• I've spent a lot of my early twenties focusing on other people as opposed to myself. Being madly in love with people and putting them first and not necessarily putting myself under a microscope. It's unsettling but I'm trying to be the kind of person that can be alone, at peace with himself. Making most recent album, I felt braver putting stuff into songs than I do bringing them up in conversation. Which makes no logical sense. Lyrically, there was a lot less hiding behind suns and moons and stars.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• It is a fact that each song an artist creates is unique and although fans tend to be loyal, ultimately the quality of the record will decide how it sells.

  

  Greg Ginn Black Flag
  • Quality
  • Artist
  • Unique

• When God gives me a song, it’s always my prayer that it blesses His people. Then there are times when you see your music speak to the troubled times.

  

  Kurt Carr
  • Song
  • Prayer
  • Blesses

• Every song is completely different. Sometimes they come like a lump of clay and it's your job to chip away and find out what's in the center. Sometimes it comes like swimming fish, and you have to follow it and see where it leads. Sometimes it comes totally fragmented.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Job
  • Fish
  • Fragmented

• When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Song

• 'Sally' is just a song that I wrote talking to my alter ego. When I write, I don't really consciously say, 'This is what I've been going through in my life, and I'm gonna put this into words.' It's just a song that I kinda went in and did. Then, listening back to it, I realized, 'I'm talking to myself.'

  

  Bibi Bourelly
  • Life
  • Words
  • Listening

• I had never really written songs for anyone before. With [Broken] Social Scene, you're writing songs for others and your passing them around and exchanging things, but for a man who has the history that Andy Kim had, and has lived the life that he's had, you see such a youthful aspect of how he just wanted to create something again.

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Broken

• I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Writing
  • Film
  • Score

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

  

  Paul Taylor
  • Song

• 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

• What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Character
  • Food
  • Color

• 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

• When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • People
  • Mood
  • Clash

• A lot of my songs, they're like puzzle pieces, and there's just one way to put them together. You could, if you needed to, get the scissors out and cut up things to make them work. But I don't want to do that.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Together
  • Cutting
  • Pieces

• You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Singing
  • Wall
  • Wall Street

• Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.

  

  Matisyahu
  • Opinion
  • Living
  • Let Me

• I am interested in politics but have stayed away from writing overtly political songs, or message songs, because I find it difficult to discuss politics intelligently in a 4-minute song. But I am finding there are ways to get bits and pieces of political thought across without preaching that the people have the power or we shall not be moved. Of course these sentiments have their place too - I'm not knocking Phil Ochs - but that's a different kind of music, songs to play at rallies, not to achieve a state of bliss.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so would his voice. A man with nothing inside him eventually had nothing to say.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Song

• When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

  

  Ray LaMontagne
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Song

• I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it.

  

  Estelle
  • New York
  • I Love
  • Boys

• Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.

  

  Christine Lavin
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Football

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