Song Quotes

I can't remember the first song I learned to play on bass, but the first song I learned to play on guitar was 'For Your Love' by the Yardbirds. That kind of was the beginning for me. I thought it was a great song and I loved the open chord progression at the beginning of that song.

Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
- Great
- Remember
- Beginning
I can sit and dissect for hours, and then write 50 songs about. I always find that inspiring.

Rachael Yamagata
- Writing
- Song
- Hours

O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.

William Morris
- Sweet
- Half
- Dear
I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The punchline comes to me, and I go over it in my head and get the song form. I hadn't been doing that a lot.

Mose Allison
- Writing
- Song
- Punchlines
Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.

Walt Whitman
The moments when I first made something, like when I first wrote a song please me so intensely. Everything else after that is just the act of communication.

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

Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
- Time
- Song
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