Song Quotes

• Being in the space that I am as a writer, and just as a black dude in America, there's this push to be cool or be what you're expected to be. There's a need for a song that puts that in perspective. I think that's an important thing for young children to hear growing up.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Up
  • Important
  • Children

• 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

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

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Sad
  • Sweet
  • Littles

• ...And it was about four or five hours later that Alice - Remember Alice? It's a song about Alice.

  

  Arlo Guthrie
  • Remember
  • Song

• I love countermelodies, I love hooks and melodies that stick in your head. If I could put 20 melodies in a song and they would all work together, I would.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Work
  • Together
  • Song

• It's extraordinary what that song has been used for - I think a lot of people who have gotten into trouble, have attached themselves to that song, and I think a lot of it is Kate's wonderful voice is there, in a sort of reassuring and loving way, and it just makes them think that perhaps there is going to be that type of love out there for them.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • People
  • Song

• I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Work
  • Song
  • Write

• We all live on the same planet. We have the ability to move towards unity. Contemporary politicians continue to apply the medieval concept of divide-and-conquer. The song is a simple exhortation to ignore them, to get to one’s own true feelings and come together honestly. I don’t personally know anyone who thinks otherwise, so I’m just adding my voice to it.

  

  Ian Burden The Human League
  • Feelings
  • Voice
  • Planet

• If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news.

  

  John Hawkes
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.

  

  Dweezil Zappa
  • Good
  • Song
  • Reality

• A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.

  

  David Bowie
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Philosophy

• The song 'Stick'? That needed to be chunky and sexy. It's human. It's human to be the girl in 'Stick' and feel spicy as heck.

  

  Jillian Rose Banks
  • Song
  • Girl
  • Sexy

• I guess I don't really know any other way to do it, it just feels like the natural way to do things for me. Like - if I'm writing a song - it has to have some sort of value. Or it only has some kind of value to me, if it's something really personal. It has to mean something to me. I guess it is a little uncomfortable, or it's a little embarrassing sometimes, to know that stuff that honest is out there. But, when I hand off the thing, when it's totally done and mastered and sent, I kinda feel like it doesn't belong to me anymore.

  

  Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Kind

• Portishead's production is just insane beats you would expect to be on a KRS-One album. But then there's this little white girl with an angel voice singing over it. It was a cool juxtaposition. I like 'It's A Fire.' That's a chill song with kind of a military drum thing going on, like a drummer boy.

  

  Anders Holm
  • Girl
  • Cool
  • Singing

• When I'm making a song, I try not to think about audience or genres. It's free-flowing. Natural.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Song
  • Free

• I don't want to have a song like 'My Humps' and it be sagging down, so I pay attention to that area. A lot.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Song
  • Attention
  • Area

• When the song went #1, it got picked up by a major label, Cameo Parkway, out of Philadelphia. We sold over a million records.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Song
  • Records
  • Label

• Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I've listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Thinking
  • Space
  • Obsessed

• 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

• 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

• See, I'm not the type of writer that has 400 songs in a suitcase someplace on the shelf. I'm sort of a rise-to-the-occasion-type of writer, so when I know I'm going to record, I get in the mood to write.

  

  Luther Vandross Chic
  • Writing
  • Mood
  • Records

• I mean, m-m-m-my you're like pelican fly

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Mean
  • Fly
  • Pops

• I always try to relate a song to something what is going on, the working man, the times, how life goes.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Song
  • Try
  • Relate

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