Song Quotes

• A lot of the songs I write are like songs that I've never been able to find on any record, but that I've always wanted to hear. Or maybe in a style I already loved, but I was looking for something in it that I wasn't hearing yet.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Writing
  • Style
  • Able

• No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

  

  Bruno Mars
  • Song

• It's very hard for me to say "Do I have favorite?" because I find that each song represents a different sounds different emotions in Andy's [Kim] life. Particularly "Sister OK", 'cos that started everything.

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • Different
  • Emotion
  • Kim

• 'Victorious' for me was a chance to write a song exactly how I was feeling - I was feeling triumphant, I was feeling like I could do anything as long as I've got the people that I love by my side. We're gonna go out and conquer it, and party, and just be awesome.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Song
  • Chance
  • Triumphant

• I'm just like anybody else: I have stuff to do in the day, whether that's writing a song or recording a song. I try to treat everything I do as just work.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Song

• When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.

  

  Alice Walton
  • Song
  • Fails
  • Costume

• When I was 12, I wrote a legit song - about having my heart broken, of course, because I was 12 years old going on 40. I sang the song for my mom, and she asked, 'Where did you get that song?' I told her I wrote it, and she said, 'Really?' She looked at my grandparents and just said, 'Oh, boy.'

  

  Ashley McBryde
  • Heart
  • She
  • Mom

• I don't like karaoke. But maybe that's why I'm so perfect for 'Lip Sync Battle,' because I get to still hear the song I love and watch the performances that I love without having to hear someone sing.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Why
  • Song
  • Perfect

• You kind of have to become a song so to speak and we wanted to make sure that Tom did them with the best abilities he had and captured all that what the song is all about.

  

  Kerry King Slayer
  • Song

• And it's the same sad song coming back again. The same old song, flows back again.

  

  Pete Yorn
  • Song

• Marylata [ Elton] introduced me to Hans Zimmer. Hans tapped me [to] work on songs for DreamWorks' animated features. I arranged Elton John's opening main title for The Road to El Dorado, I played guitars on Shrek for Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell, I co-produced "I Can See Clearly Now" for Antz.

  

  Danny Jacob
  • Opening
  • Animated
  • Dreamworks

• By your own soul, learn to live. If some men force you, take no heed. If some men hate you, have no care. Sing your song, dream your dreams Hope your hopes, and pray your prayers.

  

  Bo Schembechler
  • Men
  • Dream
  • Hate

• Funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Song
  • Funny
  • Story

• When I write a song, the music comes from my spirit, which is very playful and optimistic, but then the lyrics come from my head, which is in a different space.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Music
  • Different
  • Space

• I have a very connected history with Bilal. I heard his demo years ago. I heard all of the magic instantly. He's a master at interpretation of song.

  

  Q-Tip
  • History
  • Years
  • Magic

• It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to hear it one day. So when you go into the studio, you don't see the hundreds of people at a gig or the viewers on TV, you just write a song without any inhibitions or boundaries.

  

  Jessie J
  • People
  • World
  • Understanding

• 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

• 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.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • Song
  • Proud

• 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

• I love Whitney Houston. I absolutely love her song, I Wanna Dance With Somebody.

  

  Hayley Orrantia
  • Song
  • Whitney Houston
  • I Wanna Dance With Somebody

• In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Music
  • Difficult
  • Borrowing

• The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.

  

  Sheryl Crow
  • Great
  • Song
  • Lyric

• When you finish a song, your first thought is going to be, 'Is this song a hit?' I hate that we think that way, because it kind of takes a little bit of the meaning out of the songs that are being written, but you're definitely going to think, 'Can this song be put on the radio?'

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • Song
  • Hate

• If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

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