Song Quotes

• 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

• I have perfected the art of the mean song to make me feel like I have a backbone.

  

  Elle King
  • Art
  • Song

• 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.

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • Friends
  • Song
  • Singing

• I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!

  

  Richard Marx
  • People
  • Song

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

  

  Paul Taylor
  • Song

• 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.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • People
  • Style
  • Blue

• I saw 'Rolling Stone' magazine once, and they were talking about the top 50 songs, and there wasn't one Sly song; how does that happen? But, Sly isn't the type to brown nose for props. He's always known what he had, what he was capable of; I'm just proud that he took the time and effort to put it to music.

  

  Cynthia Robinson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Proud

• It's easy to fight when everything's right And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer when victory's near, And wallow in fields that are gory. It's a different song when everything's wrong, When you're feeling infernally mortal; When it's ten against one, and hope there is none, Buck up, little soldier, and chortle!

  

  Robert W. Service
  • War
  • Fighting
  • Mad

• I really don't do concept stuff very well. If I'm sitting thinking about what kind of song I want to write, within a few minutes, I'm kind of bored. It's just a personal thing for me.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Bored

• 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

• 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

• It's not a nice thing to have a song written about you.

  

  Eliot Sumner
  • Song
  • Nice

• Honestly, I get character ideas from the most inane places. Sometimes a song will give me an idea. Sometimes I will just hear a snippet of conversation that ends up having nothing to do with the book that emerges.

  

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
  • Up
  • Character
  • Book

• 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

• They say, he must had an angel, cuss look how death missed his ass. Unbreakable, what you thought they'd call me Mr. Glass?

  

  Kanye West
  • Death
  • Angel
  • Glasses

• 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

• Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

  

  Geoffrey Fisher
  • People
  • Up
  • Freedom

• I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Song
  • Minutes

• 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

• There's so much talk about the Drug Generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.

  

  Cass Elliot The Mamas & The Papas
  • Stupid
  • Drug
  • Generations

• 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

• 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

• 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 you're writing a song and there are five people invested in it, it's easy for one person to say, 'Oh, this song is about this and that', and everyone has to hear the idea and see if they can do better.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • People
  • Writing
  • Easy

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