Song Quotes

• It's like if every single male artist dressed up as farmers. In every video they were on a farm. Whether it was Jason Derulo or Oasis, they're always on a tractor, they're always surrounded by sheep and always in boots. And all the songs are about enjoying farming, and this is all you've had for 10 years - you'd think you were going mad.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Single

• That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • People
  • Life
  • Song

• The last thing we would want is for our fans to feel that we're trying to find the 17th opportunity to sell them the same song.

  

  Nick Mason Pink Floyd
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Opportunity

• The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those of a Scott or a Shakspeare will be renewed with greater and greater lustre in ages yet unborn, when the victorious chieftain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in the song of the minstrel and the page of the chronicler.

  

  William H. Prescott
  • Forgotten
  • Warrior
  • Unborn

• Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Music
  • Honor
  • Theology

• There's nothing worse than looking out and seeing some guy with his arms crossed while you're singing your heart out on a new song, and he's going, 'When are they going to do 'Me and My Gang?''

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Singing

• No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula... to an extent, there isn't a science to writing great songs, I suppose.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Believe
  • Song
  • Chords

• I think the B-52's were a huge influence on Sleater-Kinney. The way that there'd be a really interesting guitar line that'd be really melodic and kind of simplistic, I really related to that. The sense of melody is really intense and fun. It's not just traditional song structures, but it's very melodic and draws you in, in kind of an immediate way.

  

  Corin Tucker
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Interesting

• Every song is like a reflection of some emotions and words that we wanted to say to someone else, or some currents of life that went through our brains.

  

  Nicolas Godin Air
  • Brain
  • Emotion
  • Reflection

• I think throughout the day; there are always lines or certain words, and I'll just keep notes in my phone. It might just be one or two words, and then that could inspire a whole song, lyrically.

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • Song
  • Words

• Beyond telling a story, they are sensations that I sought to capture in the form of a song.

  

  Silvana Estrada
  • Song
  • Story
  • Capture

• You know...sometimes I'll be looking out at the audience and I'll be in the middle of a song, and I'll just stop dead. I'll look out at them, and think what is this... There's one thing that keeps me doing it though, I really love it, I believe in it.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Song

• The first song I sent over was Up All Night. People say that sounds like Angels on a Blink record. Well, no - that's just me!

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • Song
  • Sounds
  • Send

• Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart

  

  Thomas Kinkade
  • Heart
  • Song
  • Color

• I don't really write journals and stuff and then adapt them to music, it's completely within the form of the song. My great obsession and basically the bane of my existence is caring probably too much about every word, but it's too late to change my career path.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Writing
  • Path
  • Existence

• The best thing we've learned is when you are attempting to write a full song, write a full song that day. When we first started, we would have great ideas, but there's something about a moment and a vibe that's being created in time that when you return to it, it sometimes works, and it sometimes doesn't.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • Time
  • Great
  • Song

• Not everybody is going to like what I do or get what I do. With as much positive, you always get the negative to deal with. I get that as well. Most of the time, I'm very honored to have a fan base that they react to my songs. My songs speak to a lot of them.

  

  Hank Williams III
  • Speak
  • Fans
  • Negative

• History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.

  

  Hugh Evans
  • Action
  • Simple
  • Everyday

• I never judge my song titles; I just spit them out.

  

  Alejandro Ghersi
  • Song
  • Judge
  • Titles

• No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?'

  

  Sonny John Moore
  • Worry
  • Dancing
  • Asking

• 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

• What do you want me to do, To watch for you, To see you through? A box of rain will ease the pain, and love, will see you through.

  

  Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
  • Song
  • Pain
  • Rain

• I've had many songs where I've gone, 'Oh, my God, this song is going to be huge!' but it wasn't the right artist, or something just didn't happen. It didn't make the song any worse. It just didn't line up. That does happen.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • Up
  • God
  • Song

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