Song Quotes

• All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve - Street Spirit has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Dark
  • Spirit
  • Resolve

• In college, I would follow Bob Dylan around, and I would show up to a concert, and he would sing some song he hadn't sang in a long time, and it would speak to something, and I would think it had some great fateful implication.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, and you start making a song, and then it's too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• 'Free Fallin'' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Song
  • Free Fallin

• I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Song
  • Rap

• 'Mama I'm Coming Home' is one song that I think is incredible. One of his best songs ever written. Lemmy wrote the lyrics to that.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Song
  • Best
  • Written

• I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Creative
  • Performance

• 'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that's probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that's what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Life
  • Work
  • Long

• An artist could have a really big relationship, and then they break up, and any song after that, people are automatically going to assume that that song is about that person.

  

  Julia Carin Cavazos
  • People
  • Up
  • Relationship

• Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Song
  • Negativity
  • Faster

• I was once sitting on a tube, and someone was playing my song so loudly through their ear phones next to me. I just stayed silent and chuckled to myself.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Song
  • Myself
  • Silent

• Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Song
  • Know
  • Tired

• There's no reason anybody should be reading too much into 'Thrift Shop.' I just have because I have a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old who are really into going to lyric websites, hitting print, and printing lyrics for every song that's popular.

  

  Al Madrigal
  • Reading
  • Popular
  • Lyrics

• If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Rock

• Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Up
  • Rest
  • Just

• I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Drama
  • Credit

• I'd just recorded it in Mariah Carey's studio. THey thought the song was perfect for Nina, because she's so shy, so it was nice to have that connection with Nina in the song. It was special.

  

  Delta Goodrem
  • She
  • Perfect
  • Nice

• Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Together

• I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Song
  • Inspiration
  • Plumber

• We actually aren't able to play other people's songs. The one Stones song we tried to play was 'Jumpin' Jack Flash.' It was really bad. So we started writing our own - it was easier.

  

  Bono U2
  • People
  • Writing
  • Bad

• So every time I make a new circuit, a new time around, then I change the show. You can't change the songs; people still want to hear "Lady Sings the Blues" and they still want to hear some of the oldies.

  

  Diana Ross
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• The first thing I did when I got inside was turn on the kitchen light. Then I moved to the table, putting my dad's iPod on the speaker dock, and a Bob Dylan song came on, the notes familiar. I went into the living room, hitting the switch there, then down the hallway to my room, where I did the same. It was amazing what a little noise and brightness could do to a house and a life, how much the smallest bit of each could change everything. After all these years of just passing through, I was beginning to finally feel at home.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Home
  • House
  • Kitchen

• I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • Church
  • Singing

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