Song Quotes

• To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism that communicates a real feeling to someone else. You have to be real. Or you have to be a really good storyteller.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl
  • Good
  • Real
  • Reality

• I wanna make stuff that sonically sounds really good. I don't wanna make a song about how people think I'm this when I'm really that. I don't wanna make a song about how I grew up broke.

  

  Natassia Gail Zolot
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• If the chords change a lot over the course of a song, it's better to stay within the same melodic structure.

  

  Max Martin
  • Song

• The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Bigs
  • Harmony
  • Backgrounds

• One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Good
  • Words
  • Picture

• People will reach out because they know I'm trying to put my best forward when it comes to subject matter and creation of song.

  

  Justin Scott
  • People
  • Trying
  • Song

• Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I think she's dating for creativity. So let's get her off the market and put her in dating detox. If she really wants love, she has to stop writing music about them.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Music
  • Writing
  • She

• Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Years

• Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Music
  • Powerful
  • Angry

• I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.

  

  Eddy Grant
  • Composition
  • Original
  • Copyright

• I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Girl

• Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Music
  • Song
  • Words

• It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him in The Traveling Wilburys was beyond my wildest dreams!

  

  Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
  • Writing
  • Dream
  • Play

• I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but she just smiled and turned away. And the three men I admire most, The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, They caught the last train to the coast The day the music died.

  

  Don McLean
  • Music
  • Men
  • She

• 'Bellyache' is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren't real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don't know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• Criticism pretty much follows anything anyone ever does. So, anytime anyone ever writes a song, plays a show, or does whatever they do, there's going to be a certain amount of criticism because that's kind of what happens.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Pretty
  • Song
  • Criticism

• singing the song her therapist told her to improvise in order to 'let her anxieties out' If I keep the kitchen floor clean, no one will die!

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Die
  • Singing
  • Kitchen

• The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Inspired
  • Dreams

• The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it.

  

  Deborah Cox
  • Song
  • Interesting

• Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.

  

  Dar Williams
  • Writing
  • Song
  • February

• Our approach makes it so if you hear a said song of ours in 2003 and then you hear it again in 2009 it's probably evolved and changed a good bit, and hopefully for the better.

  

  Bruce Hornsby Bruce Hornsby & The Range
  • Good
  • Song

• I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Want
  • Song
  • Strange

• Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a coolibar tree, And he sang as he sat and waited for his billy-boil, You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me.

  

  Banjo Paterson
  • Song
  • Tree
  • Shade

• When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang up where they walked. The insects ticked softly, their strength in reserve; butterflies chopped the air, going to the east, and the birds flew carelessly and sang by fits and starts, not the way they did in the evening in sustained and drowsy songs.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Music
  • Morning
  • Silence

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