Song Quotes

• I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Song
  • Planes

• Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Music
  • God
  • Human

• The wordless song had the power of an operatic aria mingled with the sweetness of a lullaby. It was longing, beckoning, hopeful and heartbreaking.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Power
  • Song
  • Heartbreaking

• The school systems at my childhood had enough money or enough parent involvement that they felt like learning music and songs, and exploring the whole pop or classical canon, were just as important as algebra or biology. Music is such a visceral and tactile experience for a kid, and to just replace that with video games or something that doesn't have the same sort of physical impact would definitely be a poor choice, and have a negative impact.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • School
  • Kids
  • Song

• I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Song

• Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • May
  • Song
  • Evil

• The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Teach
  • Bird
  • Confusion

• I'm a panicked karaoke participant because I am always searching for a song in the moment. I don't have my go to song. I will be driving along and I will be like, "That should be my karaoke song!" and then I forget what song it is.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Song
  • Driving

• We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern the land would be sinking low and dying out, but we'd give it no heed but a laugh, and never look behind. For the day that was, was enough, for we was free men - and I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come - until they're old like me.

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • Care
  • Laugh
  • Slaves

• Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

  

  David Bowie
  • Song
  • Mean
  • Sometimes

• Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Song
  • Tears
  • Skim

• If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Song
  • Fingers

• I'm able to come and do a new sound and grow even more and make greater songs because my song-making abilities have grown.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Song
  • Ability
  • Able

• I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Night

• Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Shows
  • Wells
  • Connected

• Part of my growth as a producer was not just about making beats but also helping in the process of inspiring the song and making the song the center.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Growth
  • Inspiring
  • Producer

• I think it shows when you have to work too hard on a song.

  

  John Prine
  • Work
  • Song
  • Shows

• If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Song
  • Radio
  • Garbage

• Once you've heard the joke, it's not funny anymore, but it's the way it's told. And I think that's the same with the music: The reason some of my songs have lasted longer is there's a lot of stuff packed in there. You want to hear them more than once.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Thinking
  • Reason
  • Stuff

• My songs always speak of love, that's the way I like them.

  

  Mireille Mathieu
  • Song
  • Speak

• The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in.

  

  John Prine
  • Song
  • Creeps

• When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time in, there's another song waiting behind it.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Waiting
  • Behinds
  • Tunes

• The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Song
  • Journal

• You have to constantly arrange yourself around them, and that can take up a lot of energy. I mean, you don't go, "Why don't you cook dinner tonight, dear, for a change, instead of writing a great song?" I loved what [Paul Simon] did with words. But I wanted to do some more of that, too.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Mean

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