Song Quotes
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It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to tell. It keeps building and building when you add the lyrics, the instruments, the vocals until you finally reach the finished song other people can enjoy.
Manika
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My father writings stuff was always his personal stuff, like about the day we had to put our dog down, or finding old photographs of his father, or passing a guy he went to boarding school with on a street in New York. Very specific, detailed, descriptive columns that he wrote. I think in a way, it could be argued that my best songs are that way too. They're almost journalistic in that they're very clear, and very specific, and they describe things.
Loudon Wainwright III
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When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.
Chad Kroeger
Nickelback
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I've always wanted to do a cutesy little song with a guy and girl singing back and forth and thought that Regina Spektor would be kind of cool for that. I love her voice. She's an amazing musician.
Brendon Urie
Panic! at the Disco
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You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.
Ellie Goulding
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If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.
Ayumi Hamasaki
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Many people say some of their best ideas come from dreams. Arguably the greatest Beatles song, 'Yesterday,' came to Paul McCartney in a dream.
Daniel Levitin
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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
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It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song.
Lee Brice
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The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.
Faith Hill
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That's why 'Chandelier' was interesting to me... I wrote the song because there's so many party-girl anthems in pop. And I thought it'd be interesting to do a different take on that.
Sia
LSD
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Everyone likes at least one Elvis song....Me, I love them all. He was, is and will remain the ultimate rock star.
Robbie Williams
Take That
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Without a song, each day would be a century.
Mahalia Jackson
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I love a good old-school reggaeton song.
Kali Uchis
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Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else doing it, but stylistically her and I are so incredibly different that I was fascinated to hear what she'd do with it, and I completely loved it. It just felt like the different expression of a song that, to me, was so stamped in one way.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Pope John Paul II
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As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement.
Daryl Franklin Hohl
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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
