Song Quotes

• I've passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was offered a feature on a Christina Aguilera song and I turned it down. It just wasn't right. She's cool, but it just wasn't right.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Up
  • She
  • Cool

• I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My voice is the utterly normal voice, but sheer repetition has made them think it's OK. Mick Jagger once was asked, 'What makes a hit song? He said, 'Repetition.'

  

  Ira Glass
  • Great
  • Song
  • Voice

• I dreamt this ship was sinkin' there was people screaming all aroundAnd I awoke to my alarm clock it was a pop song it was playin' loud

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Song

• I think what it means to be an 'American Girl,' and what I wrote the song about, is our freedoms. The idea that we as Americans can be what we want to be and say what we want to say and that we take it for granted.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • American
  • Song
  • Girl

• Now that you're gone, it hit us, super hard on Thanksgiving and Chrismas, this can't be right, yo you heard the track I did called this can't be life

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • Track
  • Gone

• I got to sing a wonderful song called 'I Ain't Down Yet.' Well, I ain't.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Song

• 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

• My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned the greatest thing in life.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Life
  • Words
  • Effort

• The jazz rhythm won't be understood by the bulk of my audience. That's the problem. We can get away with maybe one tune a night. It depends on where we place it. A song like 'Beyond the Sea,' the fans love that. It's fresh.

  

  George Benson
  • Night
  • Audience
  • Sea

• Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • Important
  • Words
  • Single

• I'm a sucker for a good country song.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Good
  • Country
  • Song

• Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.

  

  Lee Brice
  • Song
  • Air
  • Magic

• I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Song
  • Sound

• Heart of my heart, we cannot die! Love triumphant in flower and tree, Every life that laughs at the sky Tells us nothing can cease to be: One, we are one with the song to-day, One with the clover that scents the world, One with the Unknown, far away, One with the stars, when earth grows old.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Life
  • World
  • Heart

• You've got to really know your song, inside and out.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Song
  • Knows

• 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

• A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for.

  

  Keith Urban
  • Life
  • Good
  • Marriage

• That's why 'Chandelier' was interesting to me... I wrote the song because there's so many party-girl anthems in pop. And I thought it'd be interesting to do a different take on that.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Different
  • Why
  • Girl

• We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.

  

  Charlie Byrd
  • Song

• We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation. 1

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Great
  • Real
  • Lyrics

• Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and - sans End!

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • May
  • Song
  • Wine

• Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Life
  • inspirational
  • Accepting

• 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

• Love is the song of the soul, singing to God.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • Soul
  • Singing

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