Song Quotes

• I'm not sure if every song will be 'Take Me to Church,' but I can only hope that people enjoy the body of work that I have ahead of me.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Special

• As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Writing
  • Song

• It's crazy because I was 10 years old when 'Macarena' was all over the place, and I remember looking at it from a different point of view. I remember culturally how important that song was, even though people didn't really know what they were saying. It was more about the dance and the movement of it and the cultural side of it.

  

  Luis Fonsi
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• Doing a musical is not just acting. It's total theater. When you have to justify the enormous projection of energy it takes to just go into song and dance, you realized why it's such a humbling experience every time you go into a show.

  

  Donna McKechnie
  • Time
  • Why
  • Experience

• I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • School
  • High
  • Silly

• It's really cool to see people show up at the shows night after night, and they're screaming the words of the song.

  

  Chris Lane
  • People
  • Up
  • Night

• I feel like trying to write a song in order to be a big hit is just not something I'm interested in because it's not going to come from an authentic place of expression.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Trying
  • Song

• I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that's the song that nobody talks about. It's weird.

  

  T-Pain
  • Weird
  • Matter
  • Auto

• One way in which 'Friends' did resemble 'Seinfeld' is that it really found its audience over the summer of 1995 in reruns. That's when the main title song, 'I'll Be There for You', by the Rembrandts, exploded, too.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Friends
  • Song
  • Summer

• If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

  

  Nicholas James Bates Duran Duran
  • People
  • Writing
  • Song

• You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that's listening, but they're in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Love
  • Listening

• I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I can either choose to stop and acknowledge it, or put it off and hope that it won't fade away. 'That Wasn't Me' is no exception - it came together more quickly than any other song I have ever constructed on my own.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Stop

• There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Song
  • Lyrics

• There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • Ideas
  • End

• My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Song
  • Piano
  • Audition

• We have to play 'Livin' on a Prayer,' 'Bad Medicine.' We have to play them, and we want to play them, and that's what we're supposed to do. It's like going to see The Beatles and them not playing your favorite song. It's not the right thing to do.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Bad
  • Song
  • Prayer

• I told Celine Dion not to record that 'Titanic' song. That's about as big as you can get. 'Flashdance?' I thought, 'Welder by day, disco dancer by night - who wants to see that?'

  

  David Foster
  • Song
  • Night
  • Titanic

• Almighty Freedom! give my venturous song The force, the charm that to thy voice belong; Tis thine to shape my course, to light my way, To nerve my country with the patriot lay, To teach all men where all their interest lies, How rulers may be just and nations wise: Strong in thy strength I bend no suppliant knee, Invoke no miracle, no Muse but thee.

  

  Joel Barlow
  • Men
  • Country
  • May

• What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • World
  • Power
  • Health

• I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Road

• I was so terrified before an audience that I would break out in these ugly red hives, and my lips would quiver at the sight of a word or a song.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Song
  • Red
  • Ugly

• What is beyond the cathedral, outside, Balances with nuptial song. So it is to sit and to balance things To and to and to the point of still, To say of one mask it is like, To say of another it is like, To know that the balance does not quite rest, That the mask is strange, however like.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Song
  • Rest
  • Balance

• I can write a song about my hero Che Guevara and call it 'Song for Che.'

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Song
  • Hero

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