Song Quotes

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.

Jason Derulo
- Amazing
- Singing
- English
The successful artists are completely narcissistic and self-referential. Every song is about them. They talk about themselves. They talk about what they have. They talk about what they're going to do to somebody else. They talk about what they're going to get.

Bob Casale
- Song

Petal, like a persistent song phrase, like a few stubborn lines of verse memorized in childhood. The needle was stuck.

Annie Proulx
- Song
- Childhood
If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the instrumental bridge or a guitar solo where we try to do something unexpected, something beautiful or weird, or beautiful because it is weird. And of course I fail half the time, but yes that is the goal, to create even a few seconds of bliss, or sadness. The electric guitar is a great instrument for doing this because it is capable of surprising you. There are so many different sounds available.

Dean Wareham
- Time
- Great
- Different
I have to strip away all the layers when I'm writing the song. I have to cut through all these layers of years of putting up walls and putting protective layers around myself.

John Grant
- Up
- Writing
- Song
This never happens, but I was writing with my friend Ryan Hurd and Eric Arjes, and we wrote this song called 'Last Turn Home.' The next day, my publisher emailed it to Tim McGraw's label. He listened to it, and I think within the week, he went into the studio and recorded it. And that never happens.

Maren Morris
- Writing
- Home
- Friend
The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones from coming.

Chris Owen
- Writing
- Facts
- Written
Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British Empire. You can't set out to overthrow an empire, but if you have to get some salt then get some salt. If you have to write some independent songs that are honest, just write them. If you have to do a day job stacking shelves, so be it.

David Knopfler Dire Straits
- Writing
- Independent
- Jobs