Song Quotes

• What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Life
  • Music
  • Past

• In hindsight, I think my manager and I both knew that 'Someone You Loved' was a special song that we had to put out. But no one was expecting it to do so well.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Manager
  • Expecting
  • Hindsight

• 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 decided to make a CD that I would enjoy listening to. So I would finish a song and sit there, and I would say, 'What song, of all the songs I know, would I like to work on now? What song would make me happy?' And that's how I picked the songs.

  

  Donna Lynne Champlin
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Listening

• There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over 30 only produce unimportant material.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Time
  • Past
  • Rock

• This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to the sounds I'm working with. Every song on this album I stand behind; I feel like I have a close relationship with them. There are older songs where I can feel myself writing a story, so this is the first album where I'm proud of every lyric.'

  

  Gotye
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Relationship

• It is very unnatural to dance while playing the violin. I had to practice so hard to learn how to do it, but now it is part of my expression, and it comes naturally. I have to know a song perfectly before I can even begin to move.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Song
  • Practice
  • Dance

• I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Different
  • Character
  • Opportunity

• When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Listening

• I love building a song up from nothing and jumping from one instrument to another.

  

  Jason Falkner
  • Up
  • Song

• If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Song
  • Attention

• I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener.

  

  Norma Deloris Egstrom
  • Different
  • Responsibility
  • Singing

• I think my most famous was 'Poco's Legend.' It's a white album with a simple line drawing of a horse. It almost has a Picasso feel to it. I remember that Rusty Young, the lead singer of the band, said, 'I want you to draw a horse for the song 'Legend,' which is about a phantom spirit horse. I want you to do it in several lines.'

  

  Phil Hartman
  • Remember
  • Simple
  • Band

• I believe that when you have fans, they invest in you not just as a singer but as a person as well. It's not enough to just have good songs and a good voice.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Enough

• If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Live
  • Singing
  • Wine

• 'Something More' is a song that I wrote not necessarily about country radio, more so about a lot of songs that were being pitched to me. I wrote that after song after song after song was just the same song, just a different melody, so I was just looking for something more to put on the record.

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Different
  • Country
  • Song

• The song tells me what to play.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Song
  • Play

• In my opinion, that's one of the hardest things to do in songwriting: crafting a song that speaks to you but, at its core, is a simple concept.

  

  Chris Young
  • Song
  • Simple
  • Opinion

• I'm one of the culprits who keeps turning stuff around, shaking up original tunes and trying to stand the canon on its ear. But sometimes, you just need to sing the song.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Song

• As much as Metallica rocked, they always had these song names... 'The Thing That Shouldn't Be'. 'The Chair That Wasn't There', you know?

  

  Bill Burr
  • Knows
  • Names
  • Chairs

• It's hard to come back from the Balkans and not sound like a Pete Seeger song.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Song

• Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Together
  • Two
  • Tricks

• The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • City

• Doing something that you love regardless when it's a blockbuster movie or you're writing a pop song or trying shamelessly to succeed in something is not selling out. I think that's actually fine, and I would encourage that all the time.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Fine

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