Song Quotes

• It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King's Gambit against a representative of the old chess guard.

  

  David Bronstein
  • Study
  • Gambit
  • Chess Guard

• Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Producers

• Each Desaparecidos's song has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Trying
  • Seeds

• With Free, we had phased out all of the blues material and wanted to phase in all original material, and the only song that stayed from our blues past was 'The Hunter' by Albert King. People just loved that. And I said, 'We have to write a song that will top that - otherwise, what are we doing here?' That was the birth of 'All Right Now.'

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • People
  • Free
  • Past

• I needed to be sexier. I needed to be more hip. I needed to be more edgy and this and that. 'No, don't write that kind of song, write this type of song. No, don't work with that producer, work with this producer. No, don't wear those clothes, wear these clothes.' And I didn't want to be a puppet, you know?

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Work
  • Song
  • Edgy

• It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Car
  • Sound
  • Raised

• When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible.

  

  Emile Chartier
  • Writing
  • Fashion
  • Arts

• 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

• I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Writing
  • Jobs
  • Figures

• 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

• My first song, 'Just Becuz,' was co-written by the awesome Baby Bash.

  

  Chrissie Fit
  • Song
  • Baby
  • Awesome

• Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Time
  • Earth
  • Lost

• I don't start a song with an idea of what ingredients are going to go into a song. It's not like a recipe. I will normally either talk from personal experience or I'll make a character and then try to allow that character to behave the way he or she naturally would.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • She
  • Character
  • Experience

• Sometimes an unexpected chord change can be the difference between a good song and a great song.

  

  Gary Talley The Box Tops
  • Song
  • Change
  • Chord

• I got a lot more interested in songs that could hold up completely on their own, with just a guitar and voice. For some people that's easy to do, but I find it's really difficult.

  

  Daniel Rossen
  • People
  • Difficult
  • Easy

• The cozy fire is bright and gay, The merry kettle boils away and hums a cheerful song. I sing the saucer and the cup; Pray, Mary, fill the teapot up, And do not make it strong.

  

  Barry Pain
  • Song
  • Fire
  • Pray

• The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Difficult

• Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Different
  • Singing
  • March

• The Song is a gritty, realistic, and powerful film. The acting and production quality are excellent, and the story is captivating. Although not for children, the story is a good reminder to adults of what really matters!

  

  Alex Kendrick
  • Song
  • Film
  • Story

• To me there's a definite way of doing a song. If I didn't think that, I wouldn't have done it that way in the first place.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • Song
  • Way
  • First Place

• Rock n' roll was a bad and evil thing. l remember once I was singing a Barry Manilow song, "Mandy," In the back seat of the car. It came on the radio, and I kind of sang with it, and I got smacked In the mouth because that song was "evil."

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Remember
  • Bad
  • Rock

• 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

• I got the idea for the song 'Bad Company' when I saw a poster for the Jeff Bridges movie, and it reminded of an old Victorian picture that I'd once seen, and it said, 'Beware of bad company.' So I sat down at the piano and started to write the song.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Picture

• There is no way I will survive Mike Pence doing Carpool Karaoke. What song's he gonna sing? 'I Deported Your Grandmother?'

  

  Billy Eichner
  • Song
  • Grandmother

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