Song Quotes

• When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the Northeast in the early '60s - you're not necessarily listening to the band and thinking about the lead singer, or the story of the group, or the context or the mythology of the group. You're just listening to the song and whether or not it has a hook.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Band
  • Anthology
  • Folk Music

• And I don't even gotta make no goddamn sense, I just did a whole song and I didn't say shit!

  

  Eminem
  • Song

• I thought it was a very cute song. I just picked them out because I liked them. I wasn't trying to make any statements.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Trying
  • Cute
  • Statements

• I trained myself by doing other people's songs in clubs way back when. And so I have no pride about doing covers. I love it. And being a song interpreter, to me, is just as important as, you know, putting your own thing out there. It's all about the soul - where the soul comes from.

  

  Ann Wilson Heart
  • People
  • Important
  • Soul

• I like any song that can tell a story that people can relate to.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • People
  • Song

• I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

  

  Steve Hackett Genesis
  • Song
  • Nevermind
  • Form Music

• In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is?' I want to believe there's something else going on, but what that something else is I don't pretend to know.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • Believe
  • Song

• The older I get, the more I think it's this listening. You listen for it, and you have a bit of patience. And it'll come until it sounds - to me, the best songs I've written, I think, are ones that I can't hear anything - any of myself in it. It sounds like a cover song, like somebody else's song - really something you've stolen wholesale off a radio that you've listened to in someone else's flat.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Thinking
  • Listening
  • Sound

• 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'll be, like, grocery shopping or doing something totally mundane, and once a day, you'll hear a Cyndi Lauper song on the radio. It is astounding what an icon she is, not just in popular music but in popular culture.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • Music
  • She
  • Culture

• You have to learn to draw the same emotion you had when you wrote a song every time you perform it. Acting is the same way: You have to find those emotions and bring them to the surface, and then put them back when you're done.

  

  Crystal Bowersox
  • Time
  • Done
  • Song

• Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Song
  • Fierce

• I think the process of 'I Love It' becoming such a big song opened my eyes to sides of the industry that I'd never been aware of, which I wasn't so into.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Song
  • Eyes

• Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person or something you've experienced, just think of a dog or cat that you love.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Singing
  • Person
  • Teacher

• 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 probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might have been about me,' or, 'I know it's about me.' I do play that pretty close to the vest. I don't think I'm ever gonna write a song and drop somebody's name in it.

  

  Chris Young
  • Pretty
  • Song
  • Couple

• Country Music has always changed for the times, if you listen to the recordings from the 50's to 60's to 70's, to now, the message is still there, basic down to earth songs about real people, it the music that's been updated. Some of it I like, but still prefer the traditional sound.

  

  Mark Chesnutt
  • People
  • Country
  • Real

• 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

• The harp at Nature's advent strungHas never ceased to play;The song the stars of morning sungHas never died away.

  

  John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Nature
  • Song
  • Morning

• The Rilo Kiley song 'A Better Son/Daughter' is my most requested song - especially for people who are at the age I was when I wrote it. It's sort of a mid-twenties lament.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • People
  • Age
  • Son

• I will say it is funny that writing a song about not wanting to entertain people is what got me a career in entertainment.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Writing
  • Career

• For me it's more of a spiritual thing, but I don't want to give it away because it will change how people react to the song...

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • People
  • Change
  • Thing

• I think our songwriting has evolved. We can show that we have continued to branch out and do different stuff and incorporate different instruments. When it comes to writing, I think that we have pushed the envelope. We can do whatever we want to try - a longer song or a shorter song, some different instruments, some piano, an intro with just vocals, something that's scathing. Whatever. However we feel the song should go, that's what we will do. With that mindset, I think it's made us better writers.

  

  John R. Bush Armored Saint
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • True
  • Car
  • Sunset

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