Song Quotes
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I'm inspired by artists like Robyn, just because she writes amazing pop songs, and they're not throwaway. When I listen to a Robyn pop song, I don't feel like she's just kind of saying something and not thinking; I feel like it's really emotional.
Charli XCX
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My favorite part is, once a song is out there to the public, having someone come up and tell their own story about why one of your songs resonated with them. It's an incredible feeling.
Chris Young
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I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.
Kerry King
Slayer
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When you take an energetic song and add it to one of the most energetic live performance set's you get pure mayhem...which is what the fans want to see!
Machine Gun Kelly
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When you do a song new live on stage, it's kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up a bit. It's still a little bit stiff until you really thrashed at it for a few weeks.
Jeff Lynne
Electric Light Orchestra
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If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'
Stefano Langone
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I hate that if you do one style of music or become really well known for that one song, that everything that comes after has to fit that mold.
Estelle
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If you can take a piece of life and put it in a song, it's going to be a good song - especially if it's from the heart.
Jon Pardi
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You want to sing this song. And so it goes on until eventually, after - well, however long it can take - sometimes a few days, sometimes months - you piece the whole thing together.
Nick Lowe
Brinsley Schwarz
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River gonna take me, Sing me sweet and sleepy,
Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home,
It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago
Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home
Robert Hunter
Grateful Dead
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So I wanna see all of you making out during this song.
Joel Madden
Good Charlotte
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When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really relax me and then put it on repeat. That would send me to sleep. It was quite obvious classical music, people like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel.
Archy Ivan Marshall
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I just kind of go with what I am feeling and don't think I have any kind of recipe for it... I mean, that's what drew me into writing. It's fun, and sometimes you don't get a great song. Sometimes you do.
Cole Swindell
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I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
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If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it's a song they know very well.
Alan Cumming
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My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.
Jamila Woods
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We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it's really - we're thanking the Lord and the Earth for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound kind of way.
Phil Lesh
Grateful Dead
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Black holes can bang against space-time as mallets on a drum and have a very characteristic song.
Janna Levin
