Song Quotes

I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.

Jeff Ament
- Song
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

The movie - any sports movie - becomes a praise song to life here on earth, to physical existence itself, beyond striving, beyond economic necessity.

David Shields
- Life
- Movie
- Earth
I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we're coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.

Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
- Work
- Art
- Responsibility
I've definitely read interviews with people where they've explained exactly what they wrote something about and I've been like: "Oh no, I was thinking that was a really beautiful love song or a really sad thing."

Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
At this point, I have 10 pairs of cat earrings because fans bring them to me. The next song I write, I'm going to be like, 'I love Chanel.'

Mary Lambert
- Song
- Cat
It's always hard for me to put the pieces together when listening to a finished album that I was a part of writing and playing. There are so many memories wrapped up in each note and each song that it's hard not to constantly flash back to what made that musical event happen while listening.

Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
- Up
- Writing
- Together
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