Song Quotes

• For us as writers, it's really important to have songs we believe in - even before sometimes we shoot a scene. If we have a song that's so perfectly designed for a scene on 'Rescue Me,' we'll play it on loud speakers during the shooting. It helps the cameraman and it helps the director, and it helps the actors know what the feel is.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Song

• I don't concentrate on technical things like where a microphone is placed and things like that. As a producer, I try to keep the initial feeling from when I first heard a song and make sure we do what were initially aiming for.

  

  Guy Berryman Coldplay
  • Trying
  • Feelings
  • Producers

• They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style.

  

  Frankie Avalon
  • Song
  • Style
  • Singing

• 'Something Good' is a feel-good song. A reminder that you're dope and have something wonderful to offer life and yourself and the world.

  

  Estelle
  • Life
  • Dope
  • Reminder

• Chad brings the bulk of the ideas to the table, and we all polish and rework the ideas he comes up with. He's such an accomplished songwriter. He wrote a song for ('American Idol' runner-up) Bo Bice, Enrique Iglesias - he's got that ear to be a musical chameleon and get into the zone of an artist. And he can't help but write a song you can hum along to. And that voice, you know it when you hear it.

  

  Daniel Adair 3 Doors Down
  • Up
  • American
  • Help

• You can pick songs that sound like hits, but if it's not something that somebody wants to tell their friends, 'Hey man, have you heard this song?' then I don't think it's worth it. The only way to get your music out there, is for someone to tell their friends about it.

  

  Jake Owen
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Song

• When I write a song and come up with an arrangement and a vocal part, it's always a challenge trying to find a singer who can interpret it sort of the way that I hear it, and it's a very difficult thing to do. I mean, singing is like playing an instrument - everybody does it a little bit different - singing maybe even more so.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Up
  • Different
  • Trying

• I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Song

• If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

  

  Stefano Langone
  • Song
  • Titles

• 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
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Likes

• I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to do was write a song in praise of Chicago, and that's what I did.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Chicago

• I was so terrified before an audience that I would break out in these ugly red hives, and my lips would quiver at the sight of a word or a song.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Song
  • Red
  • Ugly

• There's a lot of rage you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • Song
  • Violent
  • Rage

• I dreamt this ship was sinkin' there was people screaming all aroundAnd I awoke to my alarm clock it was a pop song it was playin' loud

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Song

• Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't novels. You don't have 30 pages to slowly wrap somebody in. They're more like short stories or poems. If the first line hasn't grabbed them, you won't get to the second line. Once you've developed an audience, you may have some luxury and trust, so you don't have to knock 'em over the head with line one.

  

  Dan Bern
  • Writing
  • Attention
  • Novel

• I did a song with Rihanna recently, and I was like, 'How did you find out about me or whatever?' And she said, 'Drake.'

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • She
  • Song

• No farther will I travel: once again My brethren I will see, and that fair plain Where I and song were born. There fresh-voiced youth Will pour my strains with all the early truth Which now abides not in my voice and hands, But only in the soul, the will that stands Helpless to move. My tribe remembering Will cry, ''Tis he!' and run to greet me, welcoming.

  

  George Eliot
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Travel

• I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I literally waste my time on a song that doesn't hold up to the same standards as the other songs on the album? I won't play it live.

  

  Jessica Anne Newham
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• The same song on a different day was a different song.

  

  Bob Weir Grateful Dead
  • Different
  • Song

• I love when a song is conceived as a jigsaw puzzle in the studio, and then it's a natural to play live. That's my gauge of success for a song.

  

  Jamie Hince
  • Live
  • Success
  • Song

• Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

  

  Franz Liszt
  • Words
  • Singing
  • Inspiration

• 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

• The Pink Panther is legendary, but a lot of people my age haven't ever seen the original. So, I think it's great to bring it back for my generation, and to expose them to where that theme song which still sounds so modern and that legendary image of a pink cat came from. It's great to be a part of that, because it's history.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • People
  • Great
  • Thinking

• 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

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