Song Quotes

• I love a good old-school reggaeton song.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Good
  • School
  • Song

• Writing songs does not get any easier, and that might be because I am harder on myself than I was twenty years ago. Hopefully, as we grow older and change, there are fresh topics, new perspectives, or at least there should be.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • Writing
  • Perspective
  • Doe

• I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.

  

  Will Oldham
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Through

• Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.

  

  Avey Tare Animal Collective
  • Writing
  • College
  • Stories

• Usually the song is totally done. I'll do absolutely everything, backing vocals - everything - but in gibberish. A lot of times its based on the mumblings that I sing. Even though I sing in gibberish, it kind of makes sense.

  

  Kaitlin Austra Stelmanis Austra
  • Done
  • Song
  • Kind

• She's blonde with all the hits. Taylor Swift. She's hot. More than that, she's beyond talented. I have to write a song with her.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Writing
  • Blonde
  • Hot

• There's two things that are tough when you're trying to be a songwriter: Number one is, how do I write a great song? The second thing is, how do I write a great song that's right for me?

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Song

• Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.

  

  George Etherege
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Gentleman

• When I get into the studio, it's not about trying to get a good song, it's about whatever comes naturally.

  

  Jessica Mauboy
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Song

• After talking to people and meeting them every day, I realize that a song can be written from one perspective with an objective in mind. What is crazy about it is that many different people can take one song a totally different way. That is so cool, since music is a universal thing and a very personal thing.

  

  Josh Dun Twenty One Pilots
  • People
  • Mind
  • Objective

• I think at times the very strong feelings I have about my country coincide with my musical ability, and I'm able to actually turn it into music, a song or even hopefully a memorable song, sometimes. You may find it surprising, but I'm a very intense, proud American. I love being an American.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Love

• Touring we thought was a waste of time. It was much more productive and much more creative to write and record. I am glad today that we didn't tour. We knew it begins and ends with a song. Back then the entire business revolved around the song.

  

  Björn Ulvaeus ABBA
  • Time
  • Business
  • Today

• '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

• Each song has its own life.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Life
  • Song
  • Own

• It's kind of always been a secret fantasy of mine, the idea of writing a song and then not having to be the face of it.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Writing
  • Song

• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and the song that I sing was not generated from within me. Even if I walk with light, I am not the light; and if I am a taut-stringed lute, I am not the lute player.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Light

• 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

• Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have to finish them.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
  • Kind
  • Inspiration
  • Half

• When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics, I start seeing the video form. And if I can get through a song and from the beginning to the end have the whole video in my mind, I think that's a great song.

  

  Christian Kane
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Mind

• The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may be going through something that we choose to write about.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • Different
  • Writing
  • May

• When we finished 'Stop Making Sense,' we went right to the San Francisco Film Festival for the world premiere, and people swarmed the stage and started dancing before the first song was even finished.

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • People
  • World
  • Stop

• Magne Furuholmen is a very dear friend of mine. A-ha are a classic pop band and they've got some brilliant songs. I'd say 'The Living Daylights' was one of my favourite Bond tunes: regardless of it being a Bond song, it stands alone as a great piece of music.

  

  Guy Berryman Coldplay
  • Band
  • Brilliant
  • Classic

• People try to change up my method, but I'm gonna keep doing it the same way I've been doing it: going in the room by myself and making a song.

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• My mother had a great vinyl collection, and she was constantly playing female singer-songwriters. I first learned about classic song structures by listening to them, and Laura Nyro particularly stood out. Her voice was outside what you'd usually hear on the radio; that really appealed to me.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Great
  • She
  • Mother

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