Song Quotes
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Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.
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Both Springsteen and Michael Jackson, who had these huge productions, could always scale them back down to just a song and a melody. All of that influences me. I also try to be a fictional writer, and sometimes I get close, but the things that resonate the most with me - and with everyone else - is what's real.
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I thought, 'Oh that's what happens. You put a song out and everyone likes it.' Well, then a funny thing happened: I started putting more songs out, and none of them did the same thing.
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After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of 'spirit fingers' to chase our cares and woes into somebody else's backyard.
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I don't want to write the same song over and over again.
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I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.
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Only joy comes from song.
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I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.
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There's a bit of hope that a song can be about anything. If you want to write a song about anything, you can, and you don't have to put it through the process of having it be trendy or cool or generic pop or these types.
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We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything back to reality. He was a brilliant guy. He was an aerospace engineer and an entrepreneur. We were just starting to write new songs two weeks after he died. We were still grieving. So that was naturally a big subject matter for the album.
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A song can take you to a special time in your life.
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Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.
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To me, our signature song was 'Rosanna.' That was the ultimate Toto track, where everybody had a chance to shine.
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To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.
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I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased.
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I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” Yeah, that was a good song. My theme song. But really I thought it was everybody’s theme song.
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Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.
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Favorite movie of all time? I hate being asked... that's like being asked, 'What's your favorite song?'
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If you've got a good melody and a good story married together, that's a good sign for hit-song material.
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Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to write a song about this situation, and when I'm done, everyone will care." To everybody else, that's ego-tripping.
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People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.
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He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.
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I'm still trying to find the perfect Nirvana song that's an example of that, but you do hear a lot of their songs start with an extremely emotional death grunts.
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I'd want it to be really special to both of us, but I'm a huge fan of 'At Last' as a wedding song. But what's also really cool is songs that no one else would have at their wedding, like an obscure Radiohead song.
