Song Quotes

• The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Country
  • Audience
  • Strange

• If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Writing
  • Girl
  • Fall

• In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's song, Bending the banner-poles. While, all alone, Watching the loophole's spark, Lie I, with life all dark, Feet tethered, hands fettered Fast to the stone, The grim walls, square lettered With prisoned men's groan. Still strain the banner-poles Through the wind's song, Westward the banner rolls Over my wrong.

  

  William Morris
  • Life
  • Long
  • Dark

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

  

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

• I give you my spirit, my flesh and my memories. Every drop of my blood sings our song. A song of happiness. There… Do you hear it?

  

  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Song
  • Happiness
  • Spirit

• Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.

  

  Sharon Jones
  • Song
  • Write
  • Stage

• Hunting Bears is a complex song. A bear, as you know is another term for a chubby chaser. The guitar line is actually the sound of a fat man's thighs rubbing together as he approaches another lardy male for a night of sexual deviance.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Together
  • Night
  • Term

• I had more of a vocal range. If you wanted to play a keyboard song, like "Love Walks In," I can do it.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Song
  • Play
  • Keyboard

• 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

• 'Sam Stone' is a song about futility.

  

  John Prine
  • Song
  • Futility

• I've seen the Stones play for three hours, and the crowd knew every song. It's what you want in a headline slot at a festival.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Song
  • Stones
  • Festival

• I don't want to focus too much on trying to write a song for radio.

  

  Tones and I
  • Song
  • Focus
  • Radio

• Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • History
  • Song
  • Fire

• I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!

  

  Erin McKeown
  • Want
  • Song
  • Surprise

• 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

• Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair.

  

  Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
  • Moving
  • Inspiration
  • Despair

• I have been writing mainly fiction. Occasionally there will be a song that hangs around the truth a little more than the rest, but even with those I end up fudging the facts just to keep it from going stale.

  

  David Bazan
  • Writing
  • Facts
  • Ends

• A delicate fabric of bird song Floats in the air, The smell of wet wild earth Is everywhere. Oh I must pass nothing by Without loving it much, The raindrop try with my lips, The grass with my touch; For how can I be sure I shall see again The world on the first of May Shining after the rain?

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • World
  • Trying
  • Spring

• I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Song
  • Morning
  • Write

• Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over when I share your need of pleasing.

  

  Ava Gardner
  • Respect
  • Need
  • Sing

• I'm really happy that people are starting to hear my band, and we are so happy to be conduits for all this other happiness, and this emotional response. So, I can't be like, "that doesn't matter to me, I'm an artist, I exist apart from that!" But on the other hand, if you buy into that too much, you're setting yourself up... if I start thinking, "well, people at the show really liked one song, maybe I should write more songs like that," then I'm in trouble.

  

  Carey Mercer
  • Writing
  • Artist
  • Emotional

• The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was sorrowful. It sang with yearning and sadness, flowing towards its goal ... Siddhartha was now listening intently...to this song of a thousand voices ... then the great song of a thousand voices consisted of one word: Om - Perfection ... From that hour Siddhartha ceased to fight against his destiny.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Voice
  • Destiny
  • Pictures

• When I can see someone that's posting the way that they're thinking about what's happening in the world right now or even art that they've created, it inspires me to do the same. It makes me turn off my phone and go paint a painting or go hike a mountain or go record a song. Those are the kind of things that social media helps me do. But it also can make me sit in my room and not do anything.

  

  Willow Smith
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Song

• You hear sounds and orchestration, it's ... the fastest way, I think, to your emotions, even if you don't understand the language of the song.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Thinking
  • Language
  • Emotion

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