Song Quotes

• I am yours. If you feed me garbage, I will sing a song of garbage. This is a hymn.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Song

• 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

• Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl
  • Good
  • Song

• I feel so bad. My band started playing the wrong song and I didn't know what to do so I thought I'd do a hoedown. I'm sorry.

  

  Ashlee Simpson
  • Bad
  • Band
  • Sorry

• I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Life
  • Hate

• Quite often when I record a song, writing it and making a demo is the big thing and, after that, I think, how do I actually translate this into real life? A lot of the time I think I can't be bothered.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Life
  • Time
  • Writing

• Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Fun

• 'Life, Love & Hope' is... I'm thinking 'larger picture.' I'm not trying to preach to anyone. We all get lost and caught up in our everyday problems. Your cellphone doesn't work or you got a parking ticket, you had a bad day at work. You can lose sight of the really important things in life; that's what the song is about.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• There are pretty girls all over the place. But there are still a lot of people standing strong, doing their thing in loving relationships, actually staying true. I wanted to write an honest love song from that point of view.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • True
  • Pretty

• You're always remembering songs you wanna sing except when you're actually at karaoke.

  

  Sebastian Stan
  • Remember
  • Song
  • Karaoke

• Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals.

  

  Diplo
  • Time
  • Great
  • Song

• 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
  • Life
  • Good
  • Heart

• I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Stills

• If nobody throws all their rules at you, you might make a song with no introduction.

  

  Bill Withers
  • Song
  • Rules
  • Introduction

• 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

• 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
  • Long
  • Together
  • Sometimes

• If I'm focusing on playing and enjoying the song, then it always goes well. I get lost in the song, and the performance is so much better. If the focus becomes not making a mistake, then it just feels rigid to me.

  

  Marketa Irglova
  • Lost
  • Focus
  • Mistake

• Gospel music to me has always been a balm for the soul. It has been able to usher in the spirit, usher in worship, true worship and praise, healing. I find the music to be very good at healing and the passion, you know, which is a testimony being told in song.

  

  Kim Fields
  • Good
  • Music
  • True

• With this album, I tried not to think too much. If I heard a song that I loved, I promised myself I wouldn't over-think it. If I loved it and if I wanted to cut it, I would.

  

  Lee Ann Womack
  • Song

• 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 wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song today!' And I do. I write a song.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Today

• Songs always get better after you start playing them live.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Live
  • Song
  • Get Better

• When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wrote more of the songs in the '90s - 'Nick of Time' and other songs I was surprised I came up with - it was because nobody else was saying what I wanted to say.

  

  Bonnie Raitt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• I'd rather get a hot dog or a doughnut than write a song.

  

  John Prine
  • Song
  • Doughnut
  • Hot Dog

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