Song Quotes

• I believe in the power of song. Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach, love is close by, and you are not alone!

  

  Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Alone

• If I want people to connect to my words and my stories, I need to tell them where they came from. Because then, when you break into song, they have kind of a blueprint for why I wrote that song, so they can come to it with something they went through that helps them connect to it.

  

  Brett Young
  • People
  • Why
  • Words

• Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Space
  • Emotional
  • Audience

• Say what you want about Maroon 5 not making music like the kind found on 'Songs About Jane,' the fact remains that they know how to write a really good pop song that highlights lead singer Adam Levine's falsetto.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

  

  Kina Grannis
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Blue

• I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Music
  • Picture

• 'Aura' is a song where you're looking at yourself in the mirror, and I was personally impacted when I recorded it. I identified with it.

  

  Ozuna
  • Song
  • Recorded
  • Aura

• Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Different
  • Way
  • Wise

• The thing is, my life is a country song. I don't need to be manufactured, and I don't need anyone to tell me what to say or what to sing.

  

  Kellie Pickler
  • Life
  • Country
  • Song

• Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • World
  • Great
  • Words

• You sometimes get the feeling that people think getting back together after a hiatus to write and record a record is work, you know, arduous and unpleasant. Being able to write and record - that's a privilege. I don't forget the long days I spent working in a restaurant, when I wanted to be done so I could go home and work on a song.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Different
  • You
  • Songwriting

• I'm definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Song

• I wasn't a kid when I came out. Soulja Boy was 16. I'm saying that when he came out he was a kid so it was naturally a show for him. It's not about the music right away. It's a show for him. Not that he's not putting enough effort into his music, but how much effort can a 16 year old put into his music because as you mature and get older even the songs he's doing now has evolved and he's looking back.

  

  Nelly
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Effort

• I did my best, it wasn't much I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Truth
  • Song
  • Fool

• My favorite Bob Dylan record is the very first one where he sings one Bob Dylan song and the rest of them are his interpretations of the Dust Bowl-era folk songs, or even going back as far as the mass influx of people coming into the U.S. during the gold rush. His interpretations of those songs are incredible.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Rest
  • Gold

• I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at the end of the day if the artist doesn't support the brand or it doesn't make sense for the song, then it will never work. What we do is try to pair them up so that both sides are happy.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• 'Mama I'm Coming Home' is one song that I think is incredible. One of his best songs ever written. Lemmy wrote the lyrics to that.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Song
  • Best
  • Written

• I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,' the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I've been out here promoting that purpose.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• People aren't used to hearing that much honesty in a song, because we don't write honesty anymore.

  

  Mickey Guyton
  • Song
  • Honesty
  • Hearing

• It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • People
  • Time
  • Change

• I took some of the hardest things about my life and wrote an empowering song with it. It has made me want to always write from that place.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Life
  • Song
  • Empowering

• There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • Bad
  • Song

• I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Fun
  • Inspiring
  • Supportive

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