Song Quotes
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I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
You can see the vibrant color of a flower and smell its beautiful scent. But when you truly come to know a flower you will also hear its song.
Katrina Mayer
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We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.
Tom Lehrer -
You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment.
Phil Collins Genesis -
I want a song that raises the hair on the back of my neck when I sing it live and I want to feel it every time.
Zach Condon -
I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!
Erin McKeown -
I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
Driving that train, high on cocaine Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed Trouble ahead, trouble behind And you know that notion just crossed my mind
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
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I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive.
Elsie de Wolfe -
I'm trying to laugh uncontrollably with whoever I'm making a song with because whatever we just listened to that we just came up with is so dope. I'm chasing that feeling in the studio, not like a trend or what's hot on the radio at the moment. It just seems like the more I do that, the better I get at what I do. I'm going to keep doing that.
Eric Benet -
I'm not Metallica, you can tell that I'm really not that angry in most of my songs.
William Fitzsimmons -
I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.
Terry Gross -
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
Thomas Aquinas -
No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart, nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to me because I would rather not get into it.
Bert McCracken
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Once I finish a song, it's done and it's on the album.
Classified -
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 -
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
Morley Safer -
Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.
Robert Wyatt -
I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.
Josh Segarra -
I like working with sound; sound and rhythm. I like the abstract more than "What does that mean?" Nobody ever says to you, "Why did you use a harmonium?" Or "What is that ringing sound that occurs here?" The questions are always "What does that song mean?" or "What were you trying to say here?"
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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My song 'Saved:' that's EDM-vibes with some L.A. vibes.
Ty Dolla Sign -
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.
Isaac Rosenberg -
We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side.
Michel Platini -
The idea of letting a recording be a moment in time appealed to me. With digital recording, it's easy to create a perfect text of whatever song you have.
David Longstreth