Song Quotes - Page 303

It begins, as most things begin, with a song.

It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire mesh moved from interesting to terrifying. It was somewhere in the first hundred or so, anyway. And it was in the way they didn't coo, or caw, or trill, or song. They simply landed on the wire, and they watched him.

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.

I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting.

Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it happens in a different way and I like that.

Well, I Am... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time thinking about what I was before the song was written.

While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.

As I said before, stones to me is meant things that hurt people, things that cause pain and thats what this song is about.

I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.

I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my real feelings about things and so that what I've been writing about.

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.

I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.

There are people I'll always love to listen to, and I'm always ending up discovering new songs by them, which is crazy. Like Stevie Wonder.

It's always good to go from a heavy song to a softer one. It helps having the attention of the audience for the whole show - three hours of the same songs for the whole show is boring.

When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.

I have an urban background, but I need melody, I need a song, so I try to mix and match and keep it fluid.

It's that quirky kind of weekend feeling they write ridiculous sunny-day songs about. You know the ones--I'm sure they're on your iPod even though you'd never admit it.

There wasn't a lot of R&B cats doing songs at 120 beats per minute before 'Closer,' which I take full credit and responsibility for. That's all good, but it was an experiment. You experiment with something, if it goes good, cool, but you never forget where you come from and R&B is where I come from.

Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.

When you're singing, it can be looked at as a monologue, in a way. If it's about telling a story and connecting with your audience, you can do that through song, through dialogue, or through a monologue. That's what's special about being an entertainer.