300 Quotes on Song

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

  Author: Moon Zappa

• But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.

  Author: Dweezil Zappa

• I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

  Author: Neil Young

• 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

• It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album.

  Author: Dwight Yoakam

• In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

  Author: Dwight Yoakam

• You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.

  Author: Bill Wyman

• Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas.

  Author: Zakk Wylde

• I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

  Author: Gary Wright

• A song called Never. Which we never play. But it's a great song.

  Author: John Wozniak

• As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.

  Author: Tom Wopat

• When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.

  Author: Tom Wopat

• Even though we didn't actually record it as the Move I had already written a song called 'Dear Elaine,' which I subsequently put on the Boulders album. I thought at the time that was probably the best song I'd written.

  Author: Roy Wood

• I've always been a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde. I always feel that you should keep singles as commercial as possible so that the people can walk down the road and whistle a song. But on the other hand on albums I think you can afford to show people what you can do.

  Author: Roy Wood

• To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences.

  Author: Roy Wood

• Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.

  Author: Roy Wood

• It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.

  Author: Wayne Wonder

• What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.

  Author: Wayne Wonder

• 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

• It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.

  Author: Bobby Womack

• The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

  Author: Robert Wilson

• Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

  Author: Cassandra Wilson

• 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

• The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• 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 guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

  Author: Ian Williams

• That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song.

  Author: Margaret Whiting

• I try to tell a story musically in a song.

  Author: Barry White

• We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.

  Author: Tina Weymouth

• The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

  Author: Paul Westerberg

• It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.

  Author: Paul Westerberg

• Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.

  Author: Paul Westerberg

• Sing the song or keep it inside.

  Author: Scott Weiland

• I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow.

  Author: Charlie Watts

• Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.

  Author: William Watson

• Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.

  Author: Jody Watley

• I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.

  Author: Margaret Walker

• The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.

  Author: Tom Verlaine

• You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

  Author: Tom Verlaine

• Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.

  Author: Ville Valo

• Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

  Author: Ville Valo

• I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it.

  Author: Kathy Valentine

• If you take all that I've learned from Joe and all that Joe has learned from me, and you throw all that into a song, not only are you using the gifts that God gave you, but also all the experiences you've had.

  Author: Steven Tyler

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

  Author: Jeff Tweedy

• Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.

  Author: Peter Townsend

• 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

• But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.

  Author: Mel Torme

• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

  Author: J. Tolkien

• Yeah, but on the U.S Tour we threw a new song into the set almost every night. Ofcourse, you can't do too many new songs every night as they've never heard it.

  Author: Glenn Tipton

• 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

• You have to insulate yourself - I'm talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won't hear 'em - that's how you write a song. And I haven't been able to do that over here 'cause I'm so busy and then, when I am off, I want to get away from music.

  Author: Mel Tillis

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

  Author: Paul Tillich

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

  Author: George Thorogood

• Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

  Author: Richard Thompson

• Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we really started to mesh as far as music goes and we started really connecting with each other.

  Author: Brandon Thomas

• I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.

  Author: John Tesh

• You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.

  Author: Benmont Tench

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

  Author: Benmont Tench

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

  Author: Benmont Tench

• Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

  Author: Tecumseh

• When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

  Author: Tecumseh

• I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first.

  Author: Paul Taylor

• I didn't think of myself as a lead player, especially when we did live shows, because me and Keith used to switch around all the time. He'd take a lead, I'd play rhythm. Sometimes even within one song. It wasn't strict and regimented.

  Author: Mick Taylor

• I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug "Want to kill ya" song, I'm ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I'm very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions.

  Author: Channing Tatum

• Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

  Author: Taylor Swift

• A friend of mine called and said they're interested in having you do a song for the new Pokemon. All my kids are grown up, so I'd heard of it, but I didn't really know what it was.

  Author: Donna Summer

• Depending on which day, and how I am feeling on that day, I have a different favorite song on the album. One day it might be 'Karma', and other days it is 'Stay For A While'

  Author: Angie Stone

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

  Author: Sting

• That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.

  Author: Stephen Stills

• Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings.

  Author: Cat Stevens

• Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.

  Author: Gwen Stefani

• Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.

  Author: Peter Steele

• My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

  Author: Brent Spiner

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

  Author: Stephen Sondheim

• If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

  Author: Stephen Sondheim

• There's something inimical about the camera and song.

  Author: Stephen Sondheim

• Each time I play a song it seems more real.

  Author: Robert Smith

• You don't really know a song until you play it live.

  Author: Robert Smith

• Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

  Author: Robert Smith

• Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.

  Author: Robert Smith

• It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

  Author: Kate Smith

• Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

  Author: Kate Smith

• Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.

  Author: Daniel Smith

• I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

  Author: Alexander Smith

• 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

• Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!

  Author: Nancy Sinatra

• Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where?

  Author: Nancy Sinatra

• Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

  Author: Frank Sinatra

• Every song is something that I've been through or an emotion I've felt - like falling in love or heartbreak.

  Author: Ashlee Simpson

• 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

• Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

  Author: Paul Simon

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

  Author: Carly Simon

• 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

• They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.

  Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

• So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

  Author: Duncan Sheik

• I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

  Author: Jules Shear

• 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

• 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

• You're a song written by the hands of God.

  Author: Shakira

• Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.

  Author: Amanda Seyfried

• The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It's not how fast you play. It's that unique blending of different stuff I'm most proud of.

  Author: Brian Setzer

• I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

  Author: Bob Seger

• There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned, very self-conscious about that.

  Author: Jon Secada

• I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

  Author: John Sebastian

• A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• I like kind of varied songs, not just the same song all the time. And I thought things like "Too Sentimental" is a different thing for us, but it works and we love the way they all came out. There's definitely varied songs on there.

  Author: Graham Russell

• I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

  Author: David Russell

• 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

• I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.

  Author: Kelly Rowland

• Silence is more musical than any song.

  Author: Christina Rossetti

• I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.

  Author: Isaac Rosenberg

• For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song.

  Author: Hilary Rosen

• Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.

  Author: Dave Ronk

• A love song is just a caress set to music.

  Author: Sigmund Romberg

• I just decided to play make believe, memorize it like it was just some kind of song and just take the emotion out of the words. And I did. I goofed a couple of times.

  Author: Michelle Rodriguez

• We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell, can still our mighty song.

  Author: George Rockwell

• Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.

  Author: Smokey Robinson

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

  Author: Smokey Robinson

• When you write a song, a song has longevity.

  Author: Smokey Robinson

• We'll do a crazy video of a great song that people can actually dance to.

  Author: Mark Roberts

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

  Author: Marty Robbins

• If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.

  Author: John Ritter

• Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.

  Author: LeAnn Rimes

• That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.

  Author: Slick Rick

• Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.

  Author: Lionel Richie

• The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it.

  Author: Cliff Richard

• I really didn't think about song writing.

  Author: Adam Rich

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

  Author: Martha Reeves

• The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.

  Author: Noel Redding

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

  Author: Leon Redbone

• At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

  Author: Bernice Reagon

• I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.

  Author: Bernice Reagon

• That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

  Author: Mick Ralphs

• When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.

  Author: Trevor Rabin

• Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

  Author: Marcus Quintilian

• When the script was written, it was sent to me with asterisks marking where he felt a song would be appropriate. Before the film was shot, the score was written. I made a demo of it, so they lived with the music as they were making the film.

  Author: Alan Price

• It's a song that we sing after we win a Test match. We sing it after every one-day series win. It's been passed down through the generations. It's the culture of the Australian team.

  Author: Ricky Ponting

• There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

  Author: Edgar Poe

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

  Author: John Podhoretz

• I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

  Author: Oliver Platt

• Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

  Author: Plato

• I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.

  Author: Edith Piaf

• 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

• If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

  Author: Carl Perkins

• Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

  Author: Pope Paul II

• I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

  Author: Pope Paul II

• I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.

  Author: Scott Patterson

• I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

  Author: Mandy Patinkin

• 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

• So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of "The Most Offensive Song Ever" with lyrics intact.

  Author: Trey Parker

• As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

  Author: Brad Paisley

• If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

  Author: Brad Paisley

• If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

  Author: Brad Paisley

• I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.

  Author: Buck Owens

• Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it.

  Author: Annette O'Toole

• There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

  Author: Phil Ochs

• Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.

  Author: Sean O'Casey

• I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.

  Author: Ric Ocasek

• Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.

  Author: Krist Novoselic

• But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

  Author: Krist Novoselic

• The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up.

  Author: Denis Norden

• It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

  Author: Stevie Nicks

• There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled.

  Author: Michael Nesmith

• With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.

  Author: Vince Neil

• 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

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

  Author: Graham Nash

• We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

  Author: Graham Nash

• Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there's nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that.

  Author: Graham Nash

• One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns.

  Author: Len Murray

• Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.

  Author: Paul Muldoon

• The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.

  Author: Jason Mraz

• I think sometimes you are born with a song.

  Author: Nana Mouskouri

• Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

  Author: Robert Motherwell

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

  Author: Van Morrison

• There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.

  Author: Richard Morris

• 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

• In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

  Author: Alanis Morissette

• We've been able to have our cake and eat it, too. Every song, every T-shirt, is absolutely a pure expression of what we want to do. And it connects.

  Author: Tom Morello

• 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.

  Author: James Mooney

• If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.

  Author: Vaughn Monroe

• You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

  Author: Joni Mitchell

• I'm about to sing the song for the future.

  Author: Stephanie Mills

• The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

  Author: Henry Miller

• I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.

  Author: Christina Milian

• I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.

  Author: Christina Milian

• Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska.

  Author: Al Michaels

• I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

  Author: George Michael

• I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?

  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 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

• Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

  Author: Margaret Mead

• For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.

  Author: Christine McVie

• 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

• There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

  Author: Christine McVie

• In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

  Author: Don McLean

• American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.

  Author: Don McLean

• 'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.

  Author: Sarah McLachlan

• Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools.

  Author: Brian McKnight

• There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.

  Author: Barry McGuire

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

  Author: Roger McGuinn

• I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.

  Author: Bobby McFerrin

• It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.

  Author: Bobby McFerrin

• But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

  Author: Reba McEntire

• I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.

  Author: Reba McEntire

• I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

  Author: Reba McEntire

• There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

  Author: Carson McCullers

• If I love a song I hope to find a way to get other people to love it too.

  Author: Susannah McCorkle

• 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

• I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

  Author: Paul McCartney

• The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now.

  Author: Richard Marx

• As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther wasn't standing next to me, to receive the award.

  Author: Richard Marx

• I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.

  Author: Richard Marx

• I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!

  Author: Richard Marx

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

  Author: Branford Marsalis

• I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer.

  Author: Teena Marie

• It's actually harder to write a fun song.

  Author: Taryn Manning

• The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.

  Author: Taryn Manning

• We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought of centering a song around.

  Author: Taryn Manning

• One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.

  Author: Manfred Mann

• If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

  Author: Barry Mann

• The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.

  Author: Barry Mann

• It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

  Author: Barry Mann

• Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.

  Author: Stephen Malkmus

• I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.

  Author: Joel Madden

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

  Author: Joel Madden

• When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

  Author: Shane MacGowan

• When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

  Author: Loretta Lynn

• I made my first complete song when I was 9.

  Author: Ludacris

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

  Author: Nick Lowe

• The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

  Author: Alan Lomax

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

  Author: John Logan

• I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one song, we'd switch on the next song; I'd play piano... we'd play mandolin.

  Author: Bob Livingston

• In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

  Author: Franz Liszt

• Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

  Author: Franz Liszt

• I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.

  Author: Abbey Lincoln

• 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.

  Author: Phil Lesh

• The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

  Author: Lotte Lehmann

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

  Author: Geddy Lee

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

  Author: Geddy Lee

• Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.

  Author: Geddy Lee

• I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.

  Author: Geddy Lee

• That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

  Author: Geddy Lee

• 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

• They really can't imagine what my voice is like. Every time I sing a song, they are very surprised.

  Author: Coco Lee

• He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!

  Author: Alvin Lee

• I've had this song in a drawer for a long time, maybe seven or eight years. Every time I'd do an album, I'd take it out and listen to it, and always liked what it had to say. Plus when Garth came in and sang on it, that made it really special.

  Author: Chris LeDoux

• When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

  Author: Chris LeDoux

• 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

• I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

  Author: Chris LeDoux

• The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

  Author: Walter Landor

• 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

• There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.

  Author: Nick Lachey

• My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

  Author: Thomas Kyd

• The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

  Author: Talib Kweli

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

  Author: Diane Kruger

• I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

  Author: Chantal Kreviazuk

• I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

  Author: Lenny Kravitz

• If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It's so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself.

  Author: Lenny Kravitz

• But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

  Author: Diana Krall

• 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.

  Author: Diana Krall

• The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.

  Author: Diana Krall

• You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

  Author: Diana Krall

• Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.

  Author: Zoltan Kodaly

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

  Author: Mark Knopfler

• While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.

  Author: Mark Knopfler

• 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

• When we play "Angel of Death", it's actually a 2 and half minutes sing 'til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end.

  Author: Kerry King

• 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.

  Author: Kerry King

• The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal.

  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 can fill this table up with people who are racist, homophobic, Satanist worshippers, sexist and we can be arguing but if you put on a song, I guarantee that people will stop and listen and that's what I love about music, it can bring people together.

  Author: Charles King

• 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

• Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.

  Author: Ben King

• Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public.

  Author: Ben King

• If I love a song, I make it mine.

  Author: Chaka Khan

• Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

  Author: Francis Key

• I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.

  Author: Nik Kershaw

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

  Author: Sally Kellerman

• I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that helps when it comes to setting up a band for live. Derrick has been with me for donkey's years.

  Author: Jay Kay

• In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?

  Author: Mary Jones

• Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.

  Author: Kelly Jones

• The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.

  Author: Kelly Jones

• The story behind every song is individual to itself.

  Author: Kelly Jones

• We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.

  Author: Adam Jones

• I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

  Author: Adam Jones

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

  Author: Adam Jones

• 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

• And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.

  Author: Joan Jett

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

  Author: Waylon Jennings

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

  Author: Al Jardine

• My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

  Author: Etta James

• I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

  Author: Wanda Jackson

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