Song Quotes - Page 6

• I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it did with 'Clarity,' but my goal is to always make a better track than the last one.

  Zedd

  Track, Goal, Needs

  "Zedd says Hayley Williams 'fits so well' on 'stay the night'" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. September 10, 2013.

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• I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Self, Sick, Want

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• Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Years, Wonderful, Mines

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• The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

  Kristin Hersh

  Writing

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• If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

  Daryl Hall

  Care, Ifs, I Care

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• I decided I was just going to sing the type of songs I gravitated toward and inspired me and moved me. I was going to let the people whose job it was to decide what places to put it, and let them do that. I'll stick to the singing part.

  David Nail

  Jobs, People, Singing

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• I naively thought I had to go door to door, find somebody who could record me singing some songs. I didn't know Music Row, I didn't know anything! So after six or seven months, I went back home and went to college.

  David Nail

  Home, College, Doors

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• I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.

  Gary Allan

  Thinking, Laughing, Make You Think

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• I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.

  Gary Allan

  Writing, People, Trying

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• What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

  Randy Newman

  Years, Consistency, Decline

  "Randy Newman: 'I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth'" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.

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• When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.

  Julian Casablancas

  Fun, Writing, Sick

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• At a recent show, I looked out and I saw this girl crying in the audience and it really affected me. I wanted to stop the song and go and give her a hug. I should have, actually - I regret not doing that.

  Elena Tonra

  Girl, Regret, Should Have

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• I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Guitar, Play, Tracy

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• I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.

  Anita Baker

  Writing, Albums, More Money

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• Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, 'How does it feel?' And that always leads to love songs. It just does.

  Anita Baker

  Doe, Albums, Theme

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• The Song of Love, the Song of Hate, the Songs of Praise and of Thanksgiving; I've learned them all, but there remains one called the Melody of Living.

  Ridgely Torrence

  Hate, I've Learned, Praise

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

  Daryl Hall

  Feel Good, Want, Feels

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• You put a big bird in a small cage, it'll sing you a song

  Patrick Watson

  Bird

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• I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.

  Ville Valo

  Night, Achievement, Amphetamines

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• When we sing a song we give our soul a cuddle

  Damien Dempsey

  Giving, Soul

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• Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth, All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth, These are contain'd in sex, as parts of itself, and justifications of itself.

  Walt Whitman

  Sex, Passion, Pride

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Leaves of Grass”, p.87, Bantam Classics

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• If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.

  Nate Ruess

  Moving, Tunes, Looks

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• I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.

  Nate Ruess

  Writing, Play, Expectations

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• The sap of Spring in the young wood a-stir Will celebrate with green the Mother, And every song-bird shout awhile for her; But we are gifted, even in November Rawest of seasons, with so huge a sense Of Her nakedly worn magnificence We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

  Robert Graves

  Mother, Betrayal, Spring

  Robert Graves (1955). “Collected poems, 1955”

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• Chill air and wintry winds! My ear has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the opening year, I listen, and it cheers me long.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Cheer, Winter, Air

  William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Grenville Mellen, United States. Literary Gazette (1826). “Miscellaneous poems selected from the United States Literary Gazette”, p.113

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