Song Quotes

• It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Sad
  • Sweet
  • Littles

• I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.

  

  Jean-Marc Vallee
  • Character
  • Quality
  • Magic

• In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

  

  Kevin Gates
  • Believe
  • Song
  • Rap

• It's kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Night
  • Crazy

• I make up stories in my head all the time, but I've never written them down. But I write a lot of story songs. Any song I'm singing, I sort of see it like a movie in my head. That's why a lot of times I close my eyes when I'm singing.

  

  Ashley Monroe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That's why people feel each song differently. I get all my vibes from rock music, you know? All my melodies and all that.

  

  Lil Uzi Vert
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• The name of the album is 'Non-Fiction'. And, I'm calling it that because the name of every song on this album is derived from a true story. Now, some of the stories are mine. Some of the stories belong to some of my fans.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • True
  • Song

• I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Good
  • Job
  • Myself

• A female vocal can lift a song.

  

  Jessie Ware
  • Song

• I approach song writing three different ways. One way is where I write the initial melody and lyrics first and then take it in to the producer to collaborate. Another way is where the producer sends me his initial musical track ideas and then I write the lyrics and melody over his track. The third way is where we just jam out in the studio and see what we come up with.

  

  Manika
  • Up
  • Different
  • Writing

• The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Song

• I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Writing
  • Popular
  • Walk

• Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it up upside down. But I remember learning to sing 'Paper Doll,' the Mills Brothers song - this was during the war - and I remember my dad taking me down to one of those little record booths where you could make spoken letters to send home.

  

  Don Everly The Everly Brothers
  • Up
  • Home
  • Remember

• 'Spring Day' - I wrote main lyrics based on my personal experience with old friends. It is about my sad memories with him, and it makes me sentimental whenever I listen to the song.

  

  Suga BTS
  • Friends
  • Song
  • Memories

• If you want to say you got to take a woman out to a fancy restaurant, I write songs about hey I'm not taking you to a fancy restaurant, I wanna take you to McDonald's.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Writing
  • Fancy
  • Hey

• In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Book
  • Song
  • Beginning

• 'Shooting Star' started out as the arrangement on the record, and it's developed into a real audience-participation song, just from playing it.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Real
  • Song
  • Star

• Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.

  

  Marvin Hamlisch
  • Music
  • Song

• Sometimes you can gauge the excitement of the rest of the band. If I'm bringing a song in and they're excited, then I'll hold on to that one. But there are times where it's like, 'Eh, I don't really like that one,' and we have to send that one on.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • Song
  • Band
  • Rest

• I think the simple message of that song is what attracted me to 'Every Day.' It's one of those simple yet profound lyrics.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Song
  • Lyrics
  • Message

• I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would do the late night underground gigs as well because it's always around those times that there was a hot song, either on the radio or in the clubs, it would just be simultaneous.

  

  Deborah Cox
  • Done
  • Night
  • Couple

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

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • Ideas
  • End

• The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it.

  

  Cliff Richard
  • Thinking
  • Song

• If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

  

  Levon Helm
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Energy

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