Song Quotes - Page 359

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.

It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.

I'm always making music. I'm constantly making little musical recordings on my phone or on a little voice recorder I carry with me so I can remember these little pieces of music that eventually becomes songs.

I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.

Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.

Like a good song, life has verses, the goliards had taught me. Each verse has to be sung. It takes all of them to make a song. It is the entire chanson you name, but when you think of it, when you smile, it is a favorite verse that delights your ears.

Songs of praise the angels sang, Heav'n with alleluias rang, when creation was begun, when God spoke and it was done.

We're all going to hell for the songs we sing.

The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long.

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.

I'd like to keep doing film and TV, and I definitely can appreciate a good theme song. If it's memorable, that's a great thing.

It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done.

If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs.

My absolute favorite song I've ever written is "This Is Where We Came In." It's a nudge at younger listeners, cause at one time you could go into a cinema halfway through a film and then stay through and pick up where you left off.

We'd record a song that people liked and wanted to hear on the radio, and the radio wouldn't play it because it was too long. Or they wanted to edit it, which we wouldn't allow.

I always like to think that I make movies that are like Nirvana songs. They have a slow verse and then they pop into high gear and then they go back into slow and then they pop into high gear again.

Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?

When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back.

If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah.

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.

On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

Every person I've met has influenced my songs.

As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.