Song Quotes

• It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song.... It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make music for a living, to perform these songs over and over, you have to safeguard those sparks. If you can do that, they'll last a lot longer.

  

  M. Ward
  • Music
  • Moments
  • Magic

• If you only ever heard "Valley Girl," or "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow," or a song that has a comedic narrative, you would get some impression that that was novelty music, but that's the only stuff that ever got on the radio. You can make the argument that that's what has confused generations as to what his music's about.

  

  Dweezil Zappa
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Confused

• If you emphasize one part of the song, it trivializes the rest of the music.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Song
  • Emphasize

• As you can imagine, over the years I have been asked many times to discuss and explain my song "American Pie." I have never discussed the lyrics, but have admitted to the Holly reference in the opening stanzas. You will find many interpretations of my lyrics but none of them by me. You will find many “interpretations” of my lyrics but none of them by me. Isn’t this fun? Sorry to leave you all on your own like this but long ago I realized that songwriters should make their statements and move on, maintaining a dignified silence.

  

  Don McLean
  • Long
  • American
  • Fun

• Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Long
  • Fashion
  • Loss

• I make my songs slightly abstract so that people can interpret them their own way. I think that's a lot more special, so you can hear a song and think, 'I feel exactly that way,' even if it wasn't written for that feeling.

  

  Eliot Sumner
  • People
  • Song
  • Feeling

• I am not anti-Bush. I am not pro-Iraq. I am pro-peace. I have written a song and created a video which expresses my feelings about our culture and values and illusions of what many people believe is the American dream - the perfect life. Madonna Quotes.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Grandma

• I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.

  

  Babatunde Adebimpe
  • Experience
  • Singing
  • Listening

• When I'm having a song-in-the-shower moment, I go to 'The Blessed Unrest' by Sara Bareilles.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • Song
  • Blessed

• Honeymoons are great, but they don't last. And I think the same is true with success on the screen - today, I am all over the place; tomorrow, I may be gone - I may have to make room for someone else. So why make a big song and dance about it all?

  

  Ajith Kumar
  • Great
  • Why
  • May

• This song 'All Aboard,' that tune allowed me to expand and kind of offer my audience something totally different because it's not bachata - I'm singing English, and that was really fun.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Singing

• But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really.

  

  Steve Forbert
  • Song
  • Challenge
  • Show

• I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Writing
  • True
  • Song

• 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

• There's an interesting story around that ["Heaven Without a Gun"], because the girl I was dating at the time got into a bike accident and couldn't make it into the studio, and the gentleman Dave Hamlin who worked on this record along with Ohad sort of took it, rearranged it. Dave went and sonically changed it and changed the keys so that Andy could sing it better. All these pieces came together that suddenly displayed that the song was meant for Andy [Kim] to sing. And he always said, "I'll never understand it, but I'll sing it with all my heart."

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • Heart
  • Girl
  • Interesting

• Sitting in a room being forced to listen to 'The Chanukah Song' over and over." [on his idea of Hell]

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Ideas
  • Hell
  • Rooms

• There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Writing
  • Song

• There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Down

• I still do one song by myself onstage. it gives people the extremely personal thing where it's just me on guitar. But, I think the songs are better as a band. I think with all of the extra little hooks and backing vocals, it just adds to what my initial idea was.

  

  Butterfly Boucher
  • Band
  • Guitar
  • Onstage

• I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs. It's really hard trying to use the format and write a pop song on top of avant-garde music, so we'll see. It could be cool, or it could totally flop.

  

  Arthur Ashin
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• We proved to the world that a completely Spanish song can take over the world.

  

  J Balvin
  • World
  • Song
  • Spanish

• The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to be more "me."

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Band

• Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Song
  • Write
  • Cringe

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