Song Quotes
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What makes that song, I think, is how stark it is.
Chris Cornell
Audioslave
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My goal is to put out an album with every song being an original composition of mine. I want the credits to read, 'All songs written by Gregory L. Allman' - that is something I really want to make happen.
Gregg Allman
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'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
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Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
Gary Wright
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I see a steady downward slope toward oblivion over the next three years. I'm pessimistic. Everything that's happened to me so far has been kind of flukey. I went into Twentieth Century because I wanted to work for Hal Prince. The part was too small according to my agent. I had been doing only leading parts, and he thought I should continue that. But the part was enlarged in rehearsal: songs were added, and it became more physicalized and showy. Then I won awards and got attention.
Kevin Kline
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The Song Remains The Same is not a great film, but there's no point in making excuses. It's just a reasonably honest statement of where we were at that particular time. It's very difficult for me to watch it now, but I'd like to see it in a year's time just to see how it stands up.
Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin
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I'm not that type of musician where I can sit down at the piano and work out a song; I actually really enjoy that process of sitting with somebody and having nothing and then suddenly something starts appearing. You struggle with it, and then suddenly a song starts to appear. Then, you've got to try and muscle it - there's that word again - into something and you do. You tussle with it and play with it and roll around with it and suddenly, magically, something appears.
Dave Gahan
Depeche Mode
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I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about.
Tommy Shaw
Styx
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When we write songs, we don't ever sit down to write an Old Dominion song. We just sit down to write the best song we possibly can.
Matthew Ramsey
Old Dominion
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I've been YouTube surfing a lot lately so I'll Shazam a song that I find or some s - - and type that in on YouTube and just go through all the relateds for it. So it's been a lot of random jazz s - - lately. Like I found Lonnie Liston Smith, and Ahmad Jamal, s - - like that. So that's been very tight.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
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I always tell people that it's so much harder to make a happy song than a sad one.
Kristian Bush
Sugarland
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I think the song itself, 'Smoke and Fire,' is just a metaphor for the feelings that you feel in a relationship.
Sabrina Carpenter
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I can't see myself ever having somebody say something about me on a song and me being like, 'All right, now I'm about to say something about them on a song.'
Chance The Rapper
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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
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As far as our song list... I think between the two of us knew seven songs... for the whole night... we did a lot of variations on those seven songs.
Robert Lee Hatfield
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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
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Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are what we are, that's all. Like the old Celtic legend of the bird with the thorn in its breast, singing its heart out and dying. Because it has to, its self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.
Colleen McCullough
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The easiest way I can describe what makes a pop song a pop song is that it's a song you want to hear over and over.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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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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Oh! not for the great departed, Who formed our country's laws, And not for the bravest-hearted, Who died in freedom's cause, And not for some living hero To whom all bend the knee, My muse would raise her song of praise - But for the man to be.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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I was about to walk on stage at the Kansas Speedway - I was playing a NASCAR race - and I said to Scooter Carusoe, who was standing side stage, 'I want to write a song called 'Wanna Be That Song.' Then I put my earphones back in and walked right out on stage.
Brett Eldredge
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One seed becomesAn everlasting song, a singing tree,Caroling softly souls of slavery,What they were, and what they are to me,Caroling softly souls of slavery.
Jean Toomer
