Song Quotes

If I love a song, I make it mine.

Chaka Khan
- Song
Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

Billy Gibbons ZZ Top
- Experience
- High
- Road

The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.

Vince Staples
- People
- Different
- Why
Sometimes if a song hits me really good the first time, I get sick of it. And by the 10th time I've heard it, it's just candy, and I don't like it anymore.

Gary Allan
- Time
- Good
- Sick
When I'm working on a Slipknot song, it's like a switch flips in my head. I can go there easily - it doesn't take a lot of soul searching - and it's a dark, almost sinister place. Stone Sour is more the way I've always written. It's a different tone.

Corey Taylor Stone Sour
- Different
- Soul
- Dark
We're going to sing about things that matter to us. The balancing act is to present these ideas but also make the music exciting and sort of fun enough that even if you're not paying attention to the lyrics, you might still like the songs anyway. That's the idea.

Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
- Fun
- Attention
- Enough
I wanted just a song to sing, and there came a certain point where I couldn't sing anything. So I had to write what I wanted to sing 'cos nobody else was writing what I wanted to sing.

Bob Dylan
- Writing
- Song
I realized probably when I was, like, 20 years old that the hardest thing to do is to write a pop song - not, like, a candy-pop, throwaway pop song.

Mark Foster Foster the People
- Song
- Candy