Song Quotes

• I get a lot of shit because I put "I" in the lyrics all the time. The "I" is always for someone else... When I say "I," it's so that when that person is singing along with the song, it empowers them.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Singing
  • Persons
  • Empowering

• 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

• I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

  

  George Chapman
  • Song
  • Tears
  • Wolf

• 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

• The whole industry evolves around a great song.

  

  Michael Bolton
  • Great
  • Song

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

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • Song
  • Blessed

• I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!

  

  Colin Trevorrow
  • Song

• I tended not to be concerned about whether a song was going to be a hit when I wrote it. Because it became evident that none of us knew what was a hit and what wasn't. So I thought if I just write what I like, why shouldn't people like what I like?

  

  Hal David
  • People
  • Why
  • Evidence

• Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down.

  

  Dr. Dre
  • Done
  • Song
  • Engineering

• All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Beautiful
  • Water

• It really is draining: when you sing a song, it means so much to you, and every time you sing it, you feel it ,and these emotions come back.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Song
  • Emotions
  • Draining

• I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. I crazily see the way out of a terrible situation. I crazily try to be the diplomat. If there are two warring factions in my life, I want them to agree to disagree at the very least.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Optimistic
  • Hopeless
  • Diplomat

• I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of money, and that was the tradeoff. But, music and picture can marry in a beautiful way, and the reverse also.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Good
  • Music
  • Money

• Even when I was with Arista records, which was the freest part of my career, you still have to run a lot of stuff by committee whether it's a budget, or the album artwork, or how may songs you get to record. This was total freedom. We had nobody to answer to. We didn't have to get anything approved.

  

  Pam Tillis
  • May
  • Career
  • Freedom

• 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

• If you're writing songs by yourself, who's going to tell you if it's good or not? But if you're writing songs with somebody else, you get that immediate feedback.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Ifs

• It has different feels to it, like the song has different tempos and intensities, and Sam pulled it off.

  

  Tré Cool Green Day
  • Different
  • Like
  • Feels

• 'Hold On' is such an important song to me personally.

  

  Chord Overstreet
  • Important
  • Song

• I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Song
  • Story
  • Believability

• Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Song
  • Motivated

• Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and then the liquid spring song of the thrush would make all the beauty of moonlight and sunlight blend together, making it true, so true, that happiness must come again

  

  Elyne Mitchell
  • Together
  • Spring
  • Sunlight

• Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.

  

  Carly Simon
  • Song

• What inspires me is anxiety and the quest to try to change things in my life. ...I got addicted to endings and beginnings and to the idea of always moving around. ...Obviously, whenever you're going through something that's the best time to create, if you're going through something amazing, or horrible, or nothing at all you should be creating. Unfortunately the songwriters of today generally torture themselves to make sure they're writing good songs and take it a little too seriously.

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Anxiety

• My goal is that when the last song is over, and you're walking back to the parking lot, you're already on your phone searching to find the next show.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Goal
  • Walking
  • Show

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