Song Quotes
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Having not really written any generational songs - I think maybe two or three of the songs that I've ever written have any bearing on the age of the listener. My stuff tends to be far more concerned with the spiritual and with subjects like isolation and being miserable.
David Bowie -
To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.
Carrie Brownstein
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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 -
I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.
Dolly Parton -
In one of my songs, in the song on the "Why?" remix that I did with Jadakiss in 2004, I said, "Why is Bush actin' like they tryin' to get Osama? Why don't we impeach him and elect Obama?" This is in 2004 on the "Why?" remix and I said that because I really had belief that Obama was the right person to be president
Will Ferrell -
I think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye's doing what he's doing with the Auto-Tune is actually creative because he just writes good melodies. He just writes good songs. He's just gifted.
Will Ferrell -
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 -
I think it shows when you have to work too hard on a song.
John Prine
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I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.
Dolly Parton -
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 -
Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.
Richard Lewis Springthorpe -
Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.
Sherman Alexie -
A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.
Rod Stewart
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I always feel like every song is the last song.
John Prine -
The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in.
John Prine -
I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.
Dolly Parton -
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 -
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 -
Because of my song 'Sam Stone,' a lot of people thought I was interested in writing protest songs. Writing protest songs always struck me as patting yourself on the back.
John Prine
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History is the siren song of the soul.
Terence McKenna -
The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song.
Judy Collins -
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 -
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