Song Quotes

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
I think you just have to have some rapport with the song.

Eric Bachmann
- Song
- I Think
- Rapport

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
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
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
Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, "Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long."

William Makepeace Thackeray
- Life
- Long
- Women
Most of my songs are pretty sketchy. There's not a lot of bass sections. I don't write big bridges. Sometimes I'll try. But it's hard for me to focus that way, because I always think it's more interesting to just see what will happen next.

Ryan Adams
When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.

Adam Selzer
- Song
- Dead
- Cry