Song Quotes

• 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

• Some fans get genuinely upset if I admit that a song that they held close to their heart was not based on actual events in my life. Like 'What Sarah Said': I was never in a waiting room in a hospital waiting for news that somebody was going to die.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Die

• When you sit down and there's nothing, and then you write a song and there's something, that's the most extraordinary feeling.

  

  Douglas Hodge
  • Song
  • Feeling

• There's no such thing as standing still and just singing a song. I love jumping into the crowd. I love to dance.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Dance

• Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.

  

  Lucinda Williams
  • Time
  • Long
  • Song

• I've been YouTube surfing a lot lately so I'll Shazam a song that I find or some s - - and type that in on YouTube and just go through all the relateds for it. So it's been a lot of random jazz s - - lately. Like I found Lonnie Liston Smith, and Ahmad Jamal, s - - like that. So that's been very tight.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Song
  • Random
  • Surfing

• I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Sometimes

• The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.

  

  Dorothy Fields
  • Song
  • Fall

• A lot of my fans wanted a kind of 'in your face' song. They wanted a song that exemplifies me overcoming the situation I was in and just that triumphant kind of song. So, I felt like I wanted to go ahead and get that out of both of our systems with 'Good Woman'.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Good
  • Woman
  • Overcoming

• The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Night
  • Singing

• That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Work
  • Song
  • Tough

• It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Writing
  • Energy
  • Intellect

• There was a great push and pull of what Blink-128 should sound like all the time. Travis Barker comes from a different background than I do, and Tom DeLonge comes from a different background than either of us in terms of what we write and what we think a song should be. Tom pushes me out of a box that I put myself in.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions become necessary, when they aren't camp, that, to me, is magic. I've done musical comedies and enjoyed them, but subject matter that's deeper and more realistic is always what's appealed to me most.

  

  Kelli O'Hara
  • Done
  • Funny
  • Magic

• It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Music
  • Song
  • Cool

• When we write songs, we don't ever sit down to write an Old Dominion song. We just sit down to write the best song we possibly can.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • 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

• One of the interesting things an artist does is they keep rediscovering things, whether it's a jazz piece or a role you've done for 3,000 performances or a song you're singing for the 3,000th time. My job is to find that spark that keeps it fresh and alive.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Time
  • Done
  • Job

• I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that?

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Why
  • Interesting
  • Funny

• I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
  • Song
  • Fall
  • Dancer

• I know a lot of artists say, `If you want your song on my record, I get 50 per cent' I'd like to kick them in the face.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Song
  • Artist

• Ideally, each week, I'd like to have rad, intelligent, creative, funny guests with different takes on the world of music. I will ask them all what their favorite blink-182 song is, and what they like best about me as a person.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • World
  • Different
  • Creative

• I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my real feelings about things and so that what I've been writing about.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Couple

• There's no reason not to stand for this song, come on, if you stand we'll buy you all ice cream

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Song

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