Song Quotes

• "Straight Edge" was a song about my life. There was no structure, no premise as if I was forming a club. There were no tenets. I mean I wrote a song called "Straight Edge," I'll take that, but the song was about my life the way I wanted to live it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Live
  • Way

• I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough. When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really hard for an artist, unless they sold a lot, to see anything.

  

  Jill Sobule
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I have often heard music that I have instantly felt 'I have to sing that song'.

  

  Alison Krauss
  • Up
  • Music
  • Song

• I'm a sucker for a sad song.

  

  Chris Young
  • Song
  • Sad

• The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.

  

  Frank Black
  • Song
  • Lyrics

• Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Thoughts
  • Inspiration
  • Advice

• If you have time to chatter, Read books. If you have time to read, Walk into mountain, desert and ocean. If you have time to walk, Sing songs and dance. If you have time to dance, Sit quietly, you Happy Lucky Idiot.

  

  Nanao Sakaki
  • Time
  • Book
  • Happy

• Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.

  

  Alex Turner
  • Time
  • Song
  • Missing

• Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Music
  • Memories
  • Lives

• I just like a good song, it doesn't matter. I mean, I am into girl groups and stuff like that. I listen to anything.

  

  Brian Fallon
  • Good
  • Song
  • Girl

• There's nothing worse than being stuck with a bad song.

  

  Brian Reitzell
  • Bad
  • Song

• I love to read things that have moral messages, and I love to hear stories where it's not just a hook, you have to follow the story, you have to listen to the message of the song, and get it and use it in your everyday life.

  

  Valerie June
  • Life
  • Moral
  • Everyday

• I think in order to accomplish anything in life, you have to visualize yourself there - accepting the award, hearing your song on the radio, whatever it is - or you lose the willpower and the drive.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Life
  • Song

• There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - 'Swan Song' is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.

  

  Maxim Gorky
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Book

• I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

  

  Eleanora Fagan
  • Music
  • Alone
  • Exercise

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

  

  Joey Santiago Pixies
  • Song

• If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Done

• Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Music
  • Myself

• You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

  

  Diana Krall
  • Heart
  • Experience
  • Broken

• Montserrat Caballé is sensational. She has that same kind of emotion as Aretha Franklin. The way she delivers a song is so very natural. It's a very different gift.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Different
  • She
  • Song

• I was at a picnic, and there were a lot of songwriters. I remember praying, 'God I wish you would give me a song.' About five minutes later, my ears popped, and I saw everybody in slow motion. Nobody knew what I was experiencing.

  

  Andrae Crouch
  • God
  • Remember
  • Wish

• Many a bard's untimely death Lends unto his verses breath; Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Death
  • Growing
  • Dying

• It's almost like a theater, where I can play a character in every song, 'cause Kamelot songs are very... There's always a narrative going on. There's a story within albums and in songs, so I get to play a character and sing it in a different way than people might recognize coming from me.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • Character
  • Play
  • Theatrer

• Most of my inspiration comes from mistakes, so every time I make a massive mistake, that usually affects me so much that I have to process that via song.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Mistake
  • Inspiration
  • Affects

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