Song Quotes

• The heavenly motions... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Voices
  • Heavenly
  • Motions

• I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's my interpretation. But I would never 'say' that because somebody else might interpret the song in another way.

  

  Diana Krall
  • Song
  • River

• People bursting into song in unison and then pointing it at me is maybe the worst thing I can think of, never mind that you have to pay good money to go be yelled/danced at.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• When I'm writing a song, things are always popping into my head, it's not so direct. It feels more like I'm in a room and there's this whole big jumble of clothes on the floor and it's like choosing what to wear. There are a lot of different things in there and you kind of pull something out and think, "No, that's not right," or you're like, "Yes I'll put this on with this."

  

  Julia Natasha Stone Angus & Julia Stone
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Facing inward, join hands so as to form a small circle. Then, without moving from their places they sing the opening song, according to previous agreement, in a soft undertone.

  

  James Mooney
  • Song
  • Small
  • Moving

• I know so many people who have gone through just not very good situations, and sometimes you just need a song to help pick you up out of it, especially if you're going through the hurting part.

  

  Ashton Shepherd
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • Song
  • Nice
  • Taken

• Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Heart
  • Kind

• I think at times the very strong feelings I have about my country coincide with my musical ability, and I'm able to actually turn it into music, a song or even hopefully a memorable song, sometimes. You may find it surprising, but I'm a very intense, proud American. I love being an American.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Love

• 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

• I guess I don't really know any other way to do it, it just feels like the natural way to do things for me. Like - if I'm writing a song - it has to have some sort of value. Or it only has some kind of value to me, if it's something really personal. It has to mean something to me. I guess it is a little uncomfortable, or it's a little embarrassing sometimes, to know that stuff that honest is out there. But, when I hand off the thing, when it's totally done and mastered and sent, I kinda feel like it doesn't belong to me anymore.

  

  Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Kind

• It's very funny to see a Justin Bieber song done by a bunch of grown men.

  

  Shawn Stockman Boyz II Men
  • Men
  • Done
  • Bunch

• When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song... With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.

  

  Allison Williams
  • People
  • Music
  • Men

• I used to think that myself and my songs were the same thing. But I don't believe that any more. There's myself and there's my song, which I hope is everybody's song.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Song

• I recall this sergeant's informing me and my "room-mates" of this rather deplorable fact the army didn't have any official, excuse me, didn't have no official song and suggested that we work on this in our copious free time.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Army
  • Facts
  • Rooms

• I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Different
  • Together
  • Song

• Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

  

  Leif Garrett
  • Song
  • Taken
  • Journey

• I think from the very beginning with 'We Are Young,' there was never any question about where we wanted the song to go and what we wanted it to sound like. And we knew that we wanted it to be big, we wanted it to be booming over the speakers at an arena or something.

  

  Andrew Dost Fun.
  • Song
  • Question
  • Beginning

• 'Sweet Dreams' is such a dark-sounding song, but it's about not taking anything for granted; share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.

  

  Angel Olsen
  • Time
  • Dark
  • Sweet

• I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.

  

  Jean Gabin
  • Song
  • Singing

• Usually, there's a story I've told that leads up to why I'm singing the song. The whole concept of the show was about being authentic and connecting with these songs. The best way to do that was in a room with an audience and for people to listen to that.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done.

  

  James Iha The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Good
  • Done
  • Band

• I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Good
  • Music
  • True

• The spooky thing is that two weeks before the Grammys, I wrote down my goals, and one of them was, 'To be on the top of the Billboard charts with a song I wrote and performed.' ... It's completely unheard of.

  

  Joy Villa
  • Song
  • Goal
  • Charts

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