Song Quotes

• I do love to interpret songs in American Sign Language.

  

  Sean Berdy
  • Song
  • Language

• What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Up
  • Hours
  • Calling

• I'm never too ambitious when I go into the studio. I always know that I'm just going into the studio to work on or try to develop an idea that I have for a song.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Work
  • Song

• I really felt like 'Chandelier' was a big pop song. But we weren't sure what would happen if I wasn't willing to show my face and do promo and go on tour and do the traditional kind of pop strategy. So I had no expectations.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Song

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

  

  Elle King
  • Art
  • Song

• The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Memories
  • Victory
  • Crush

• People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.

  

  Alan Lomax
  • Song
  • Land
  • Sterile

• You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Problem
  • Rap
  • Hood

• We want to pull out songs from the American song book, and we want to make them palatable for a modern audience.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Book
  • American
  • Song

• Everyone's me, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty equally involved in all the writing. Normally we'll start with a sample or a drumbeat, or a synth sound or something like that, and that will spark the initial idea. And then we'll write an instrumental sketch of a song, and then we put on a nonsense vocal melody, which is always my favourite bit because it obviously sounds amazing.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Writing
  • Melody
  • Nonsense

• John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Mean

• 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

• 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

• One of the lyrics from Bono that always sticks with me is 'Where the Streets Have No Name.' Just the name of the song, that sort of oneness, and there isn't any division in yourself, and your just at peace and fired up at the same time.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Up
  • Time
  • Peace

• I always liked a good love song and I dig being in love.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Love
  • Always
  • Liked

• I think the best thing for us is to just write songs that we like.

  

  Katie White
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Song

• People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.

  

  Hafez
  • People
  • Soul
  • Reality

• That's pretty much how every song of mine works - I start with gibberish and melody and phrasing. I speak it naturally first. And then I think about lyrics that fit into that.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Pretty
  • Song
  • Lyrics

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

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Song
  • Teenager
  • Eminem`s

• I got into a conversation with EMI, and they said they were very interested in releasing the song because it was such a huge hit online. RCA and Universal were also very interested, but EMI were the best team, so I decided to sign with them. I got my deal because 'Silly Boy' leaked, so obviously now I'm very happy about what happened!

  

  Eva Simons
  • Happy
  • Team
  • Conversation

• 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

• We wanted to make a living, but success was creating a song that we enjoyed playing. Quite honestly, that is still a measure of success for us.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • Success
  • Song

• 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

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