Song Quotes
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I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song
Linda Ronstadt
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When you're walking down the street or in the car just listening to the radio, and you're, like, 'Oh, that's my song.' You want to say, 'Hey Mom!' That never changes.
Nick van de Wall
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I think I'm alright as a lyricist, you know? But then what will happen every couple of months or so is that I'll hear a song I've never heard before and feel I've gone right back to square one.
Alex Turner
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One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.
Phil Ochs
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You kinda don't know what's going to make a good song. You've got to shoot around in the dark for a little while.
Ne-Yo
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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
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What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Even if I wrote a song about math or animals or whatever, there would still be the question, 'Why did you write about that? And what does it say about you?'
Jens Lekman
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I sometimes think 'Gordon' must be the most bootlegged album in U.S history, since it sold only 200,000 copies in the country, yet 800,000 kids know the words to every song.
Steven Jay Page
Barenaked Ladies
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I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.
James Cameron
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I love our industry. I love the song. I love the voice. I love it. Not necessarily my voice. But I care about the song and the voice.
Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel
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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
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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
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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
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It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.
Olly Murs
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So, it happened pretty fast, but, it is causing a lot of stir, which thrills me that people still remember the songs.
Wanda Jackson
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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
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Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life, and it really is like you're still there.
Jennifer Egan
