Song Quotes

'MMMBop' took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then we built the song around it.

Isaac Hanson Hanson
- Time
- Long
- Year
When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.

Linda Ronstadt
- Meaning
- Sing
- White noise

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

Brent Spiner
- Song
'A Pirate Looks at 40,' we had to do that song. I've been covering that forever.

Zac Brown Band
- Forever
- Looks
- Pirate
I come from a very musical family. My dad taught me to play guitar. I play violin and drums as well. Violin, I started in elementary school. Drums actually came when I was in a program called 'Rock Star,' which was really awesome. We were doing a song by the Ramones, so I thought, 'Why not play the drums?'

Amandla Stenberg
- Family
- School
- Why
A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.

Aaron Sorkin
- Long
- Character
- Movie
Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.

Jarvis Cocker Pulp
- Good
- Work
- Great
...And it was about four or five hours later that Alice - Remember Alice? It's a song about Alice.

Arlo Guthrie
- Remember
- Song