Song Quotes

• The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

  

  Lucinda Williams
  • Song
  • Perfect
  • Singing

• When I recorded 'Sun,' I wanted to do something with more of a modern sound. I've never done anything like it, and it was fun for me to sing, but I'm not really a dance person per se. However, I would love to hear that song in the club. I think it's a really good dance song.

  

  Belinda Carlisle
  • Good
  • Done
  • Fun

• You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's his favorite composition? And I say, I haven't written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Different
  • Favorite

• I am always happy to use my song and dance training.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Happy
  • Dance
  • Training

• A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.

  

  Sheryl Crow
  • Song
  • Simple

• The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.

  

  Joey Santiago Pixies
  • Song

• I've got my little black dress on And if I tell myself that nothing's wrong This doesn't have to be a sad song Not with my little black dress on.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Song
  • Black
  • Sad

• Whether it's a song that might deviate from an artists' usual sound or even if it's still very much in their world, I think the more people opening themselves up creatively to collaborate with others, the better.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • World
  • Better
  • Sound

• I come from a very musical family. My dad taught me to play guitar. I play violin and drums as well. Violin, I started in elementary school. Drums actually came when I was in a program called 'Rock Star,' which was really awesome. We were doing a song by the Ramones, so I thought, 'Why not play the drums?'

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Family
  • School
  • Why

• Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we really started to mesh as far as music goes and we started really connecting with each other.

  

  Brandon Thomas
  • Music
  • Song

• There were numerous times where, at the end of a week of working on a song, there was a part of it that we still weren't feeling, so we'd scrap the whole thing and start from scratch the next week.

  

  Johnny Christ
  • Song
  • Feeling

• To a certain extent, yes, we do. But there's - but there's a very limited menu. There's only about sort of 20 songs that you hear on rotation.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Certain
  • Rotation
  • Menus

• When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • American
  • Honest
  • Found

• I can watch a movie about a person that can make me feel depressed or remind me of something else, and then later on I'll get an idea for a song.

  

  Chris Owen
  • Movie
  • Ideas
  • Feels

• It was right after I dropped the song 'Don't,' and it started to go viral a little bit. That's when I was like, 'Alright, I might have something here.' Actually, I wasn't even going to quit my job, but Timbaland called me - we have a mutual friend - and he was like, 'Yo man, you need to work in Miami.'

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • Work
  • Job
  • Friend

• I remember the first time I heard 'The Thunder Rolls.' It was dark, and we were driving to the beach. There was the thunder outside and the thunder in the song. It was eerie.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Dark

• Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

  

  Jim Capaldi
  • Song

• If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • Throw
  • Moonlight

• We have a song, 'Welcome to the Family' - we realized for the first time in our lives that people go through this every day around the world. There is someone very close to them that they're losing, every day. That song is, 'We know how you're feeling.'

  

  Johnny Christ
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I'd rather get a hot dog or a doughnut than write a song.

  

  John Prine
  • Song
  • Doughnut
  • Hot Dog

• I'm a sucker for a sad song.

  

  Chris Young
  • Song
  • Sad

• It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music – my taste in chord progressions and melodies.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Lyrics
  • Personal

• It turns out that while I was in the hospital, the song went to number one, ... All in the same day, my transplant, the song, it was pretty intense. The guys called me on the phone and sang, 'Happy transplant to you.'

  

  Kevin Neil Hearn Barenaked Ladies
  • Guys
  • Turns
  • Phone

• I think all the songs at Moth are about different things, but if we were to speak about it as a whole, it's really about, it's about joy, and about sensuality and vulnerability and also fun, energy, living in New York in 2015, being out of control, wanting to be in control, failing! It's a sort of story of our lives.

  

  Caroline Polachek Chairlift
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Fun

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