Song Quotes

• 'All Over Me' is a song that I really got fired up the first time I heard it: it just really moved and it really had a lot of energy.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Energy

• Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • God
  • Faith
  • Bird

• I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Thinking
  • Artist
  • Car

• If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It's so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • Song
  • Simple

• I do believe that a poet would possess a stronger intuitive sense of phrasing with a rock song. There is a way to tap into the emotions of an audience simply by the cross of a certain phrase, even a single word, against a certain chord.

  

  Jim Carroll
  • Believe
  • Single
  • Rock

• I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.

  

  Anita Baker
  • Up
  • Money
  • Song

• Me + Love Songs on KOST=embarrassing car jam sesh.

  

  Joanna Garcia
  • Car
  • Embarrassing
  • Jam

• A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Song
  • Mountain

• I mean, m-m-m-my you're like pelican fly

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Mean
  • Fly
  • Pops

• One day I was at the park with my family, all my cousins and stuff, in Frankston... We were all just singing a song and my aunty was like 'oh guys, she can actually hold a note.' I think that's the earliest memory of someone actually pointing me out as someone that has an ability to sing. I was probably like 7 years old.

  

  Tones and I
  • Family
  • Memory
  • Probably

• You look at a song like 'Lightning Crashes,' and it's just so universal.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Song

• I wouldn't go so far as to make 'You Don't Own Me' a tango or 'It's My Party' a hip-hop thing. Believe me, those things have been suggested to me. But I thought if I could stay true to the song, the arrangements would work. I'm really enjoying singing them.

  

  Lesley Gore
  • Work
  • Believe
  • True

• When I enter a club and hear my song being played, I feel like it's not really my song and when I see people dancing to my song, I feel like jumping up on stage and treating them to drinks.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • People
  • Drink
  • Dancing

• If I'm doing a concert, and I'm having a problem with the audience... I just play a Bob Marley song, and I'm good for the rest of the night.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Good
  • Night
  • Problem

• 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 don't wake up in the morning and say, 'Jeez, I feel great today. I think I'll write a song.' I mean, anything is more interesting to me than writing a song. It's like, 'I think I'd like to write a song... No, I guess I better go feed the cat first.' You know what I mean? It's like pulling teeth. I don't enjoy it a bit.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • Up
  • Great
  • Writing

• When I get up there, maybe I'm nervous for the first song, but then I get into it. It's a lot of fun to stand up there. I always enjoy the moment when I'm actually standing on stage. When I'm done, I'm like, 'Oh, I want to play one more song.'

  

  Kygo
  • Up
  • Done
  • Fun

• I grew up playing a lot of R&B music, and I wanted to do a very R&B type song. And I like the 'nah-nah-nahs'. I always wanted a song with those in.

  

  Stuart Adamson Big Country
  • Wanted
  • To Do
  • R&B

• You have to insulate yourself - I'm talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won't hear 'em - that's how you write a song. And I haven't been able to do that over here 'cause I'm so busy and then, when I am off, I want to get away from music.

  

  Mel Tillis
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• I want to make an album my grandma and my fans are going to like. I want to make my grandma understand a drop and make club fans understand a song.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • Song
  • Grandma

• I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Music
  • Words
  • Blue

• A great song for me is when I hear it and it's contagious. The lyrics and the melody, if grows on you once and you want to hear it over and over again.

  

  Easton Corbin
  • Grows
  • Melody
  • Contagious

• All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.

  

  Kesha
  • Up
  • Men
  • May

• It's gotta feel natural. I'm always into that, and after awhile, if I am working on a song too long and trying to make something out of it that it's not... it's best just to stop and move on.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Stop

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