Song Quotes

• Nobody had song titles that were as long as ours. A lot of it was just inside jokes.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Long
  • Song

• Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.

  

  Saul Williams
  • Song
  • Legislation
  • Riot

• 'Feel It Still' came around pretty much as organically as you can put a song together.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Together
  • Pretty
  • Song

• 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

• When I was a teenager, working towards dropping out of high school to starting to tour with bands, I'd drive around in my VW Bug every morning before school, very stoned listening over and over to Zeppelin. This song got to me because it just seemed mystical. There is something about those Celtic tunings that almost sounds Eastern. Somehow it would sweep me up into my own little trance-like state, like Sting with those shamans in the Amazon. But all I had was a bong and a Led Zeppelin cassette.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Listening
  • Bands
  • Dropping

• Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Writing
  • Band
  • Audience

• Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Heart
  • Song
  • Anchor

• I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Time
  • Song

• That's the great thing about being in a band: it's a gang for people who are too wimpy to fight. You can create a gang and have an identity and fight for something and stand up for something just by making pop songs. They're my gang members and gang members are for life, and if you try and leave, we execute you. That's the way it goes. A simple bang, back of the head, into the river, and we keep moving on.

  

  Torquil Campbell Broken Social Scene
  • People
  • Trying
  • Simple

• I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Song
  • Crazy

• 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

• Recording a Hindi song takes me around 40 minutes whereas a Kannada song takes me about two hours. The music isn't a problem, since the notes used are universal. The language is the problem. I try my best to get it right, as I'm sensitive about respecting every language, since all of them are sacred in my heart.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Song

• For us the Dresden Dolls were porcelain dolls that were made in that city at the time, that is what they were to us, and also a reference in Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, and in a song by The Fall.

  

  Brian Viglione
  • Song
  • Dresden Dolls
  • The Fall

• I'm not a song and dance man, so you're not going to see me on 'Glee' anytime soon. If you want that show to continue, keep me far away from it.

  

  Dean Cain
  • Song
  • Dance

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

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Song
  • Fame
  • Bee

• Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • People
  • Song

• 'Victorious' for me was a chance to write a song exactly how I was feeling - I was feeling triumphant, I was feeling like I could do anything as long as I've got the people that I love by my side. We're gonna go out and conquer it, and party, and just be awesome.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Song
  • Chance
  • Triumphant

• When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Healing

• 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

• Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts that come into my head. Things I shouldn't be thinking about. Not to be gimmicky, but people should be able to determine when I'm serious and when I'm f... around. That's why a lot of my songs are funny. I got a warped sense of humor I guess.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Evil

• I produced a song for Bobby Vee called Get The Message.

  

  Jimmy Griffin Black Tie
  • Song

• 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

• I don't want to have one hit, one song of the summer, and then have me disappear forever. I really want my things to last, and I want my songs and my bodies of work to resonate with people. I want to hit people - at least make a dent in them. I want to make a mark somehow.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • Work
  • Forever

• And religious music and the sort of symbolism of it and everything. But I had this idea. Actually, I sort of dreamt it. I woke up - just before waking up one morning, I sort of dreamt this song or the idea of it and the first little bit of it. And I jumped out of bed and I thought, well, you're still asleep. You're going to forget this in a minute - you know, like you do when you've had a dream.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Dream
  • Morning
  • Religious

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