Quotes on Song

I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.

Author: Jeff Ament

If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.

Author: Namie Amuro

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

Author: Fiona Apple

Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to me, I'm in the middle of that same verse!

Author: Tom Araya

I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.

Author: Burt Bacharach

I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.

Author: Les Baxter

You can cage the singer but not the song.

Author: Harry Belafonte

What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

Author: Daisy Berkowitz

There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.

Author: Nuno Bettencourt

I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.

Author: Dewitt Bodeen

The whole industry evolves around a great song.

Author: Michael Bolton

Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song.

Author: Michael Bolton

However long the song is was how long it took us to write it.

Author: Geezer Butler

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

Author: Jim Capaldi

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

Author: Mary Carpenter

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

Author: Gene Clark

I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.

Author: Patsy Cline

The only one I really like is a song called Saccharine.

Author: David Coverdale

The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it.

Author: Deborah Cox

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

Author: Wayne Coyne

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.

Author: Glenn Danzig

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.

Author: Glenn Danzig

Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!

Author: Ruben Dario

A song is the most intangible thing in the world.

Author: Jimmie Davis

Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts.

Author: Desmond Dekker

There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

Author: Jackie DeShannon

I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.

Author: Katherine Dunham

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

Author: Bob Dylan

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Author: Bob Dylan

I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something.

Author: Billy Eckstine

I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

Author: Brian Eno

There's a lot of rage... you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.

Author: Siobhan Fahey

A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.

Author: Dorothy Fields

A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.

Author: Dorothy Fields

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

Author: Dorothy Fields

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

Author: Tim Finn

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

Author: John Fogerty

You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.

Author: Tennessee Ford

I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives.

Author: David Friedman

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

Author: Maurice Gibb

Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better.

Author: Maurice Gibb

I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.

Author: Beth Gibbons

I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.

Author: Martin Gore

Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.

Author: Peter Grant

I produced a song for Bobby Vee called Get The Message.

Author: Jimmy Griffin

I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all.

Author: Geri Halliwell

We went for the best overall feel on each song. There are no musical overdubs at all. It's a true live record; it's one of the few true live records out there.

Author: Ben Harper

I'm still proud of what I've done, even if it hasn't been the biggest song on the radio or hasn't gone to number one.

Author: Faith Hill

Sometimes I will click on a random sequence of notes- not to actually use it in a song, but to see if I can find maybe a simple pattern that I can build off of.

Author: Ken Hill

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Author: Lou Holtz

I've always said it took me 20 years to find out how to write a song in 20 minutes.

Author: Bart Howard

The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.

Author: James Iha

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

Author: Neil Innes

It took me 29 years to finish that song. That's a typical Jardine move.

Author: Al Jardine

I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

Author: Waylon Jennings

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

Author: Billy Joel

I've never worried about how long the song is.

Author: Adam Jones

The story behind every song is individual to itself.

Author: Kelly Jones

And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.

Author: Sally Kellerman

You know when I really realized like "wow" what a gift this is was when I sang at camp and a girl wrote me a letter and said the song that I sung kept her from committing suicide.

Author: Charles King

I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are some songwriters who can like me I have a problem writing chorus lyrics but I can write a song in a story like that.

Author: Charles King

You kind of have to become a song so to speak and we wanted to make sure that Tom did them with the best abilities he had and captured all that what the song is all about.

Author: Kerry King

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

Author: Mark Knopfler

The only song I can sing is "Lady in Red" so that must tell you how great it must have been.

Author: Diane Kruger

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.

Author: Steve Lacy

They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good.

Author: Chris LeDoux

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

Author: Geddy Lee

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

Author: Geddy Lee

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.

Author: Geddy Lee

Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year.

Author: John Logan

You've got to really know your song, inside and out.

Author: Nick Lowe

So I wanna see all of you making out during this song.

Author: Joel Madden

There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

Author: Branford Marsalis

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

Author: Paul McCartney

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.

Author: Roger McGuinn

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

Author: Christine McVie

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

Author: John Mellencamp

A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.

Author: John Mellencamp

In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.

Author: Giorgio Moroder

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

Author: Van Morrison

I think sometimes you are born with a song.

Author: Nana Mouskouri

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.

Author: Graham Nash

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

Author: Gloria Naylor

We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side.

Author: Michel Patini

I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album.

Author: Matthew Perry

Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

Author: John Podhoretz

It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.

Author: Leon Redbone

A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit.

Author: Martha Reeves

I really didn't think about song writing.

Author: Adam Rich

I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped.

Author: Marty Robbins

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

Author: Smokey Robinson

One Long Year was just a song here and there, and it was meant to reflect the mood that I was in but unfortunately it also reflected too little of any particular thing rather than hanging together as a whole album.

Author: Todd Rundgren

When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.

Author: Tommy Shaw

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about.

Author: Tommy Shaw

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

Author: David Shipler

Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.

Author: Carly Simon

I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.

Author: Paul Simon

Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.

Author: Nancy Sinatra

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

Author: Stephen Sondheim

A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

Author: Stephen Sondheim

Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.

Author: Peter Steele

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

Author: Sting

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

Author: Benmont Tench

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

Author: George Thorogood

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

Author: Paul Tillich

You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.

Author: Justin Timberlake

For the live shows, I'm just getting my song together. I go back to my hotel room and I just listen to my song over and over again, figure out how to make it different and put my little Pia spin on it.

Author: Pia Toscano

I just try to get inside the song and imagine what comes next.

Author: Jeff Tweedy

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

Author: Tom Verlaine

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.

Author: William Watson

Sing the song or keep it inside.

Author: Scott Weiland

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

Author: Barry White

We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.

Author: Lucinda Williams

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

Author: Cassandra Wilson

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.

Author: Lee Womack

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

Author: Neil Young

I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

Author: Moon Zappa