Song Quotes

• I'm one of the culprits who keeps turning stuff around, shaking up original tunes and trying to stand the canon on its ear. But sometimes, you just need to sing the song.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Song

• When we were doing 'Live at Benaroya,' the song 'I Will' was hard to get through. I've always get a big lump in my throat when I sing that song. And also 'Before It Breaks.' So I'm just a different songwriter now. And the older I get, the more difficult it becomes to deliver those songs casually.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Different
  • Live
  • Song

• You don't play around with a good song. You try to just say it right in the proper place, and if you get the music and voice in tune, you'll be all right. That's always worked for me.

  

  Glen Campbell
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

  

  Marsha Norman
  • People
  • Music
  • Bird

• The inspiration to write a song comes to me when something has happened to me more than once. If it's happened to me more than once, it's probably happened to other people.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • People
  • Song
  • Inspiration

• When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Think
  • Song
  • First

• Pot is great for the abstract, for when you don't have to be regimented and for when you don't need parameters. When you're creating a song, there should never be any parameters, so being high is okay because your mind can wander all over the place.

  

  Steven Barry "Lips" Kudlow Anvil
  • Mind
  • Abstract
  • Okay

• My favorite song will always be 'Layla' by Derek and the Dominos, because my granddaughter was named after it.

  

  Betsey Johnson
  • Song
  • Granddaughter

• Love is learning the song in someone's heart and singing it to them when they forget.

  

  M. K. Asante
  • Heart
  • Learning
  • Singing

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

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Sad
  • Sweet
  • Littles

• Usually now a song starts just in my head with a melody or a lyric idea coming first.Then typically I'll go to a guitar, unless it's a instrumental then I'll usually build it on a keyboard instrument.

  

  Eliot Lewis The Average White Band
  • Head
  • Melody
  • Starts

• I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Ideally, each week, I'd like to have rad, intelligent, creative, funny guests with different takes on the world of music. I will ask them all what their favorite blink-182 song is, and what they like best about me as a person.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • World
  • Different
  • Creative

• Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Time
  • Music
  • Business

• I will say this: Rapping-wise, there has never been anybody to match Tupac's energy when coming on a song, like when rappin'. It's unmatched. You can't duplicate it.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
  • Song
  • Energy
  • Wise

• Lord, kiss me once more, fill me with song Allah, kiss me once more that I may, that I mayWear my love like heaven Wear my love like Wear my love like heaven.

  

  Donovan
  • May
  • Heaven
  • Kiss

• I touch God in my song as the hill touched the far-away sea with its waterfall.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • God
  • Sea
  • Waterfall

• I take chances. I don't limit myself. I don't think anybody who listens to Boston would have predicted hearing a female rapper on the beginning of the song 'Sail Away.' But that's what fit.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Song
  • Beginning

• But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.

  

  Mel Torme
  • Pretty
  • Song
  • Popular

• I'm intrigued by what video can do. It can endear you to a song that might pass your ears otherwise. You remember interesting imagery. It can change your perspective.

  

  Sam Brown
  • Remember
  • Interesting
  • Perspective

• I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Song

• I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Good
  • Wonderful
  • Piano

• I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Long
  • Words
  • Rock

• There's this idea, particularly in pop music and a lot of these pop father/manager types, that you're selling the person instead of the song. You basically want to create something that the fans relate to because it's exactly like them. So there's a lot of art that's made to be in the image of the audience, but then the audience is imitating this version of themselves. It's a really weird cultural feedback loop, and it's kind of strange to watch. It's a new thing since I was a kid, really a different thing.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
  • Different
  • Art
  • Kids

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