Song Quotes

• 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

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

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Producers

• Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Song
  • Fame
  • Bee

• I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.

  

  Josh Segarra
  • Song
  • Story
  • Place

• 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 wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was - I wrote it with 'Biff' Stannard. And he wrote every single Spice Girls song and every single pop song of the 90s, basically. So I thought, you know, I was really lucky to work with him, but I didn't think it would be a big song for some reason.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Writing
  • Feelings
  • Behinds

• Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Giving
  • Kind
  • Inspired

• Christmas is never going to go away, and it's always going to be there. And there's always room for one more Christmas song, I think.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Song
  • Christmas

• I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Mary Lambert
  • Song
  • Cool
  • Wedding

• I try to cross as many genres as possible with the same attitude. I want every song to be very clear.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Song
  • Attitude

• 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

• Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!

  

  Mitchell Zuckoff
  • Son
  • Poet
  • Royalty

• I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.

  

  Mike Gordon
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Problem

• Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.

  

  Glen Campbell
  • Great
  • Song

• Think about when you listen to a song on the radio. You are not paying for it; it's not illegal to do it, because the rights have been paid for on top, beforehand, by the radio station, by the network. We have to find exactly the same kind of system with the Internet.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • Song

• When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure fragrance even without incense or tea.

  

  Zicheng Hong
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Tea

• You are an eternal being now on the pathway of endless unfoldment, never less but always more yourself. Life is not static. It is forever dynamic, forever creatingnot something done and finished, but something alive, awake and aware. There is something within you that sings the song of eternity. Listen to it.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Life is
  • Eternity
  • Finished

• For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it.

  

  Annie E. Clark
  • Song
  • Powerful
  • Moment

• I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

  

  Tim Finn Crowded House
  • Song

• 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

• In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Comedy
  • Absurd
  • Banjos

• When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar, they sound convincing. It's important for me to not pursue those ideas, because I've already done them, but to find ideas that are different and feel strange to write and disconcerting to write.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Song
  • Write
  • Start

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