Song Quotes

• There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Stars
  • Rumor
  • Weeping

• I feel like there's no subject that can't be sung about. I wrote a song dedicated to people with inflammatory bowel disease, and then I wrote about shoes. And mangoes. Every rock should be turned.

  

  Casey Abrams
  • Feels
  • Disease
  • Dedicated

• The challenge in writing the songs for The Aristocats truly fell on the animators & director of the film. Robert & I wrote the initial songs for the film, just prior to leaving full-time employment at the Walt Disney Studios. Therefore, some of the songs we wrote for The Aristocats were never used. I believe, therefore, the challenge fell upon the makers of the film to select what songs made the final cut.

  

  Richard Sherman
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Challenges

• I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style of songs that I grew up with.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Style
  • Cases
  • Composer

• It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Song
  • Drug
  • Addiction

• We went for the best overall feel on each song. There are no musical overdubs at all. It's a true live record; it's one of the few true live records out there.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Live
  • True
  • Feel

• When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Believe
  • Song
  • Kind

• There's a certain power in vague language, but I started to get more into the idea of really trying to have a discrete thought in the lyrics and to have songs that were about stuff - to try to make things more coherent.

  

  David Longstreth
  • Language
  • Certain
  • Discrete

• I read the reviews sometimes, but I don't let it really affect the next album because, for me, when I approach an album, it's usually coming to me pretty naturally. It's not like I set out, like, "Okay, I'm going to write an album this month." It's more like I'm just always writing songs and eventually I start to realize that a group of songs sort of fits together, and I go from there in putting together the album and themes and artwork and things like that.

  

  Chelsea Wolfe
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Sometimes

• The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Song
  • Emotion
  • Aggression

• People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • People
  • Music
  • River

• I enjoy making music alone, and I like keeping my options open for how I release my own songs. But everybody in Grizzly Bear is full of ideas. So it's kind of boring to come to the band with a complete song and be like: "Here's what I want you to do." With this record, we wanted to make everything feel like everyone - music that we could never do on our own. That's a real gift, and it's one of the best things about being in a band like this.

  

  Daniel Rossen
  • Real
  • Kind
  • Boring

• Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Song
  • Joy
  • Quality

• I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever.

  

  Cary Ann Hearst
  • Writing
  • Forever
  • Songwriting

• The Woodshed Orchestra trade in exuberance and might, a glistening thunderslap on the hind of musical atrophy. These songs leap from disc to lap, a many-legged beast trundling with joy and vision.

  

  Dave Bidini
  • Vision
  • Musical
  • Exuberance

• I can definitely relate to a few things in the song. Going mudding on a dirt road, going to football games, I did a few of those things.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Football
  • Road
  • Football Games

• All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Song
  • Lips
  • First Day

• If you're writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you're reading a poem that's written for the page, your eye can skip up and down. You can see the thing whole. But you're not going to see the thing whole in the song. You're going to hear it in series, and you can't skip back.

  

  James Fenton
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Reading

• The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Song
  • Perfect
  • Goal

• I started making hip-hop music when I was 11, and pretty much since then I've just been honing that craft, the craft of arranging a song and producing a beat. It's a task-heavy role, but at this point I really enjoy it and it allows me to convey exactly what I'm trying to get across in a song.

  

  Alexander Spit
  • Song
  • Started
  • Producing

• Once you have a hit, it just becomes another old song.

  

  Genesis P-Orridge
  • Old
  • Hit
  • Becomes

• 'Sam Stone' is a song about futility.

  

  John Prine
  • Song
  • Futility

• As an artist, you tend to gravitate to the opposite. I know, when I finish a song or an album, I'm interested in doing something completely new. It doesn't always happen, but that's the idea. My poor fans - I don't know if they love that or hate that.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Song
  • Hate

• The day Guy Clark passed away was the day we wrote 'Girl Goin' Nowhere.' It was the first day I had met Jeremy Bussey, who I wrote the song with.

  

  Ashley McBryde
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Girl

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