Song Quotes

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

Paul McCartney The Beatles
- Music
- Writing
- Want
Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package.

Billy Collins
- Good
- She
- Simple

For me it's more of a spiritual thing, but I don't want to give it away because it will change how people react to the song...

Brandon Flowers The Killers
- People
- Change
- Thing
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
When you have a song on the radio your career and your life changes maybe for the better and maybe for the not so good depending on how it's going that day.

Loudon Wainwright III
- Life
- Good
- Career
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.

Anna Akhmatova
Writing-wise, I started when I was 17. Whatever was bothering me, I could just write about it in a song. I was in the west suburbs of Chicago, then I moved an hour south, and then I went to school up on the South Side - Saint Xavier, though I was at Purdue for a second before I dropped out.

Kiara Saulters
- Up
- Writing
- School
I push myself in a lot of aspects when I write a song. I write a piece and where most people would stop and say, 'Oh, that's the hook right there,' I'll move that to the first four bars of the verse and do a new hook.

Drake
- People
- Song
- Stop