Song Quotes
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I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.
Sheryl Crow
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On a musical level, I do find it rewarding. It's not like I want to blow my brains out while I'm playing these songs from so long ago. I am still surprised by the way the songs are constructed - note choices, the way the arrangements are made, the way these songs are assembled. I'm still amazed at times.
David Pajo
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Reality is that even if you come out with a really good song, all will go to waste without good promotion.
Lee Seung-hyun
Big Bang
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If you record a song that you love, then you're going to win.
Trisha Yearwood
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Those situations were just taking over my entire life. It was fun to write in a way, because it helped me take a really bad situation and a really sad situation and make beautiful songs out of them. When I got half of the song written it was like, "Oh, this is great." It was like the one thing that was making me happy again.
Nicole Atkins
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What I really search for is something that I really love hearing, something that's my own private game: If I find a song I really like, I try to do a definitive version.
Tony Bennett
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On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.
Stephen Sondheim
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There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe.
Jason Mraz
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After that song came out, a lot of girls wanted to change their name to Julie... God bless 'em!
Bobby Sherman
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So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
Stephen Sondheim
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I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.
Lucinda Williams
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Make songs for Death as you would sing to Love -But you will not assuage him. He aloneOf all the gods will take no gifts from men.
Sara Teasdale
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You know how it is - you make songs, and as you make the new ones, the old ones get old and you throw them out.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
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SONG You bound strong sandals on my feet, You gave me bread and wine, And sent me under sun and stars, For all the world was mine. Oh, take the sandals off my feet, You know not what you do, For all my world is in your arms, My sun and stars are you.
Sara Teasdale
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I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.
Charles Hartshorne
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Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.
Ivo Andric