Song Quotes

• There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Career
  • Inspiration
  • Craft

• When you're in a band and write a song on your own, it isn't fully realized until it goes into somebody else's ears.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Band

• When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • God
  • Dream
  • Girl

• The song 'Some Other Time...' is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.

  

  Betty Comden
  • Time
  • Song
  • Feeling

• You never know what's going to play into what's worthy of getting encapsulated into a song.

  

  Feist
  • Song
  • Know
  • Never

• A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Music
  • Song
  • Like

• I woke last night to the sound of thunder,'How far off,' I sat and wondered.Started hummin' a song from 1962.Ain't it funny how the night moves,When you just don't seem to have as much to lose.Strange how the night moves, with autumn closin' in.

  

  Bob Seger
  • Night
  • Funny
  • Autumn

• When I get all focused on songwriting, I get into all the marketing and promotion that we do to make it happen. Then the right song comes along and blows it all out of the water. The right song will do it for you every time.

  

  Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn
  • Water
  • Blow
  • Marketing

• Every time I write a song I feel really lucky and kind of surprised. Not surprised that I wrote it, but just surprised that things exist that you don't know about.

  

  Amos Lee
  • Time
  • Song

• After a while, no matter how much you love any pop song, you're going to get tired of it. That's the way it is with any entertainment. It's good when you first hear it or see it, you like it for a while, then it gets old. It gets chewed up and spit out and it's done.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Good
  • Done
  • Tired

• I mean, there's an aspect I've always said that is - it's, you know, it's not poetry but it's kind of like it. It's not song lyrics but it's kind of like song lyrics. It's not rap but it's kind of like rap. And it's not stand-up comedy but it is kind of like stand-up comedy. It's all those things together.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Up
  • Together
  • Comedy

• The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

  

  Dar Williams
  • Song

• The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.

  

  Clint Black
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Christmas

• 'Recent Gains in the Quest for Peace' in The World tomorrow Vol. 11, No. 1 (January 1928), p. 8; including a quote from the Communist song 'The Advancing Proletaire.'

  

  A. J. Muste
  • World
  • Song
  • Peace

• 'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Me
  • Day

• When I was producing the first solo album, i just wanted to convey some messages through it. The message was 'no blood will come out even if I am pinned' However, after trying out different kinds of music activities, I started to change and wanted to convey my real emotion that I have in my everyday life. I want to express the feelings that everyone has felt at least once, in music so I think people will feel/understand my songs.

  

  Kwon Ji-yong Big Bang
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Real

• It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Different
  • Myself
  • Dance

• What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Single
  • Thought

• To me, a lot people really get wrapped up in the technical side of metal and what's metal and what's not and more double-kick and more blast beats and more technicality, but for me, I'm a song person. So I think you can write good songs in any type of style of rock and any type of style of metal, and that's kind of what I'm a fan of.

  

  M. Shadows
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped.

  

  Martin David Robinson
  • Song

• The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Reality

• A lot of my friends send me Snapchats of when they're in the club, and they're like, 'It's your song!'

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Friends
  • Song
  • Club

• 'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • War
  • Song
  • Ride

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