Song Quotes
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Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song - This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays.
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There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.
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...And it was about four or five hours later that Alice - Remember Alice? It's a song about Alice.
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My mom married a family friend, and my dad married someone that's eight years older than me, so it was just like, these - like, I literally live a country song, so I had to write one.
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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.
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What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.
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I wrote a song with a guy named Brian McKnight, who's a huge R&B guy.
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The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
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Love is learning the song in someone's heart and singing it to them when they forget.
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It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.
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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.
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Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.
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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.
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I cannot learn creation from other people; I've got to do it myself. Now, honestly, I regret not studying - I don't know about harmonies, or anything, so if I'm composing a song, it's really hard.
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To be able to be onstage and to hear people in the audience go, 'That's my song!' It's amazing.
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I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way.
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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.
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A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.
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If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.
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There's 20 really cutting-edge, cool artists on there, so I was so thrilled to be a part of it, ... And it's a really fun song.
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It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, 'What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?'
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The power of a label and radio and a booking agency and all that - you never know until you experience it the first time, but being able to have a song on radio, but then go play a show for people that have heard the song on radio, and having it sung back to you, is - I don't know how to describe it.
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Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
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Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
