Song Quotes

• You don't have to be as good a writer to write a song; it's a very different process to writing straight prose. To learn how to write prose takes a lot of years of practice.

  

  Tom Odell
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Prose

• I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • People
  • Real
  • Dance

• Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, one in all, and all in one.

  

  John Marston
  • Sweet
  • Humorous
  • Melancholy

• 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 go to restaurants and the groups always play 'Yesterday.' I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us 'Yesterday.' He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing 'I Am The Walrus.'

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Guy
  • Song

• Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.

  

  William Christopher Handy
  • Bird
  • Natural
  • Consciousness

• I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Cheese

• Music has changed. You can just throw songs out on iTunes song by song; you don't have to do a whole album.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • Music
  • Song

• A lot of people in Nashville think that the best song is the catchiest or the one that sells the most copies. They're editing songs in a way that make them seem more consumable, I guess. I'm trying to edit them in a way that makes them more honest.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • People
  • Trying
  • Song

• When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them.

  

  Aoife O'Donovan
  • People
  • Song
  • Cried

• 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

• Music is a very personal thing, so if you hear one type of song that you don't like, you pass judgment on whole band's repertoire.

  

  Chris Metzler
  • Music
  • Band
  • Judgment

• I think I was 15 the first time I wrote a good song.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Time
  • Good
  • Song

• 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 want a long-lasting career. I want to build up a fan base that will come to my shows and love me no matter if I have a song on the radio or not.

  

  Aubrie Sellers
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

  

  Alan Jackson
  • Great
  • Song
  • Perfect

• I've never conceptualized much of what I write about. Maybe, once I'm onto something, I'll conceptualize a finished record. I want the songs to tie together and make sense together. I'm not like, "Oh, I want to explore this idea." That's just not how the creative process works for me. It's more like something strikes me, or finds me, and then I wrestle with it after that. I don't sit back in my armchair, like, "What kind of philosophy can I explore today?"

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Philosophy

• 'Been That Way' is a song that Timbaland gave me. Actually, the beat is. And then he called me to come out there to Miami. I went out there to work with him, and he gave me two beats for my project. One was 'Sorry Not Sorry,' and the other one was 'Been That Way,' and I recorded both of them in my hotel.

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • Work
  • Song
  • Sorry

• There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly.

  

  Tim Finn Crowded House
  • Song
  • Common

• I tweeted that I wanted Little Mix's 'Touch' played at my funeral - I think that'd be a great song to send me into the abyss.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Played
  • Funeral
  • Abyss

• There are thousands of Eminems. Just listen to a song. There are thousands of them. It's just that he had the talent. It's like someone with a talent to hit a baseball. He had the talent to write lyrics.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Song
  • Baseball
  • Lyrics

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

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Song
  • Motivated

• As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one gazes at the shining colors of flowers, doth one become dumbstruck before the Kingdom of the Creator.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Color
  • Flower
  • Bird

• I know the words to, like, every song. Hoobastank, whatever.

  

  Lennon Parham
  • Song
  • Words

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