Song Quotes

• I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Song
  • Records

• Why should it be my loneliness, Why should it be my song, Why should it be my dream deferred overlong?

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Why
  • Song
  • Dream

• Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong.

  

  Frederick William Faber
  • Song
  • Strong

• Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

  

  Alexander David Turner Arctic Monkeys
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Waiting

• If we were to use the success of 'Need You Now' as the barometer for every other song, then we'll probably be highly disappointed. That song will probably undoubtedly be the biggest song of our career. We can hopefully have success for 20 years, but we may not ever have the success of that one particular song again.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • May
  • Career
  • Success

• I think part of the process of putting out a record is always looking back because, by the time a song comes out, it's been a year since you wrote it.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Time
  • Song

• I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Words

• Every record we do, we do one song we didn't write.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Song
  • Write
  • Record

• I just write all the time. In my whole life I've never had what I've heard people talk about writer's block. I've never had that. Life is like a song to me. I just hear everything in music, so I have never once thought "Well, I'm never gonna be able to write again." I've got thousands of songs.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Block

• I would hope somebody out there will still want to hear a Backstreet Boys song when I'm 50-something.

  

  Brian Littrell
  • Hope
  • Song

• 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

• It's hard to complain when you say, 'We're gonna go to the clip where Helen Hunt and Will Ferrell are on 'Saturday Night Live' making fun of your song.'

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Live
  • Fun
  • Night

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

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Good
  • Country
  • Song

• When I play a song for someone the first time, if I make 'em laugh, I think, 'Yes, I've succeeded.'

  

  Tove Lo
  • Time
  • Song

• One of the nice things about being in a band is that you depend on each other for ideas, so it's not all up to me to do everything myself. There's always that fear that you'll run out of stuff. The most difficult part for me is writing lyrics, and that starts to get difficult after you've written, like, 120 songs.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Fear

• I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.'

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Time
  • Words
  • Singing

• I'm the kind of person who, if I like one song, will listen to all of the band's work before moving on to another group.

  

  Alexis Bledel
  • Work
  • Band
  • Moving

• At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

  

  Bernice Johnson Reagon
  • Time
  • Music
  • Song

• I don't want to write the song that I wrote yesterday, and I don't want to write the song I'm going to write tomorrow; I only write the music I'm writing now.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Song

• There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody. A lot of times I have, and the song wasn't that good, but I would get lost in that melody, and I'd want to do the song.

  

  George Jones Mr. President (band)
  • World
  • Good
  • Lost

• It's pretty cool that artists like Flo Rida and Bingo Players can be inspired to interpret a song like 'Piano in the Dark' in completely new genres. As an artist and writer, it's the highest compliment we can be paid.

  

  Brenda Russell
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • Dark

• I've always wanted to title an album 'Illinois.' I wrote the song, which was a very special song to me. The song isn't exactly about being from there, even though I am.

  

  Brett Eldredge
  • Song

• This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.

  

  Chris Owen
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Live

• When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn't about the lines themselves - it's about what is between the lines. The song is about what isn't there.

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • American
  • Missing

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