Song Quotes

• Songs come when they wanna come and I'll work at it when I feel like working at it. There are some songwriters that write every day, and I'm definitely not one of those guys. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. It's just kind of what I do.

  

  William Clark Green
  • Writing
  • Things
  • Songwriters

• Somebody's going to hear a song that will key in a nerve or something in their experience that represents their own vision. And the next person is going to see it completely different. So even what it means to me is probably irrelevant. It's totally irrelevant. What matters is what it means to each person listening to it.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Vision

• It's such a strange marriage, a song and someone that sings it. When that works, it really works, and when it doesn't, it doesn't.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Song
  • Marriage

• 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

• Radio has had my back since 'Missin' You Crazy,' which was a very traditional kind of song.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • Song
  • Crazy

• I got hit up for a tampon commercial and so I asked [JD and Jo] if they had anything. Jo sent that over and I was like, "I love this track. Oh my god. It's so upbeat. It's so positive. It would be so great for a tampon commercial." That commercial never came through, so then I just had it. I was like, "That would be great for a Hillary [Clinton] song." I think it's so funny that it could be a tampon commercial.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Thinking
  • Track
  • Clinton

• There's a song called 'All We'd Ever Need,' which is actually the first song that the three of us wrote together on our first album, and when we wrote that song I didn't have any real experience to pull from.

  

  Hillary Scott Lady Antebellum
  • Experience
  • Song
  • Album

• Basically I can't sleep without every single song I'm writing repeating endlessly, but I'm loving it again. Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew!

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Writing
  • Giving
  • Single

• 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

• If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last months.

  

  Daniel Dewan Sewell
  • Made
  • Week
  • Lasts

• There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Bad
  • Happy
  • Sad

• There were a few times where people would be like ‘Make another song like ‘Falling,I have more to offer. I just want to show people that.

  

  Trevor Daniel
  • People
  • Song
  • Show

• There's little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.

  

  Andy Milonakis
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Singing

• It's very satisfying when you see your song at the top of the charts.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • Song

• Believe in the power of songs.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Believe
  • Song

• Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.

  

  Roger McGuinn The Byrds
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Refine

• When I went to do my big audition with actors for Mr. Blonde, the thing that was very interesting was the first person to actually do the audition with the song, and they kind of actually acted out the whole scene, they weren't so great. It wasn't that they were magnificent, but the song, it was the first -it was all - been in my head.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Great
  • Interesting
  • Blonde

• 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

• 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

• I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Song

• During recording, the most important thing of all is to "sing sincerely" from the heart. When you guys listen to my songs and able to feel my sincere singing, I will be very happy.

  

  Daesung
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Happy

• The problem is that once I start on a song and get a rough idea of where I might go with an arrangement, I try dozens, sometimes hundreds, of different things on a song. The bass, the backing guitars, the lead guitars, the keyboards. It's a long process. It's like 100 steps forward and 99 steps back.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Different
  • Long
  • Song

• I also remember a line from a song by Smog [Bill Callahan], which seems to describe the experience of a town-dweller moving to the country: "I was raised in a pit of snakes/Blink your eyes - I was raised on cake."

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Country
  • Experience
  • Remember

• 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

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