Quotes about song
song
I'm a beat hoarder. I'll record five songs in a year and I still hoard beats. Vince Staples
song hurt fun
It would be fun to go back and see where all my songs stopped, because I think I'd have every number in the top 100. It never ceases to amaze me. It still hurts when one doesn't work, because you put your heart and soul into it. Vince Gill
song jobs play
Everything I've done feels like I'm just as much a part of it as if I was the producer. It's still the same job: all of us together figuring out the common good for a song. That's the only thing that matters. It's not like, "I'm the boss, and I'm gonna tell you what to play."
song people the-end-of-the-day
At the end of the day, all people want to do is hear a great singer sing a great song. They don't care about what vocal changes it went through. You can't screw up a great song and a great singer.
song jobs singers
I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every song ever made.
song dad play
I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
song real interesting
So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.
song next your-favorite
When you ask a songwriter, "What's your favorite song?" he goes, "The next one."
song funny-things people
The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
song notes equal
I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value.
song writing mind
I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're in a truck.' It's just mind-numbing to me.
song relax want
I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge. Robert Goulet
song work-out body
When you sing a song the way I sing it, you have to use your whole body. It's almost like working out.
song people lasts
"Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.' Which is why he was driving a Rolls-Royce." Robert Glasper
song men intelligent
I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man. Robert Green Ingersoll
song writing thinking
I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in examining all the nuances and idiosyncrasies of particular stories of everyday people. And if that doesn't happen, then I usually transplant myself and my own stories to a particular historical event. Which is why you'll see me, the first person pronoun, interacting in a song about Carl Sandburg, or you'll find my [sic] interacting with Saul Bellow. It's sort of a re-rendering of history and making it my own. Sufjan Stevens
song real writing
It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's like that. It's not real. It's unreal, it's all fabrication. To write a song about Obama would suddenly break the spell.
song believe play
I'm not beholden to the public, and neither are the public beholden to me or my songs. I'm very much of a populist on those terms, I believe that the song is no longer mine anyway. I like to process the dispossession that happens when you play something live. I don't have a clue as to how these songs are going to plan out, whether they're going to be on a record. I don't know yet.
song writing swings
The focus of my playing is the groove, and every time I find a new rhythm, I find I can write a bunch of new songs. Learning how to dance, or drum, or to swing my body in a new way is the fundamental way I find a new riff. Because when you learn to swing your body in a new way, you begin to swing with your instrument differently. Stone Gossard
song play impact
I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.
song writing long
I just know that I love to write songs, and I have for a long time.
song albums nova-scotia
On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums. There'll be a song about Saskatchewan and Vancouver and Nova Scotia on there. Stompin' Tom Connors
song broken promise
I never made promises lightly There may have been some that I've broken But I swear in the days still left We will walk in fields of gold Sting
song moving night
Every breath you take and every move you make Every bond you break, every step you take I'll be watchin' you Every single day and every word you say Every game you play, every night you stay I'll be watchin' you
song writing easy
It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.
song failure fall
That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
song body albums
I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.
song men games
The amusements of broadcast consist mainly of songs, stories, and games, just as in tribal life. The songs and stories are mostly about courtship, the games mostly played by men, just as in tribal life. Stewart Brand
song rock-and-roll make-you-smile
There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad. Stevie Wonder
song writing play
People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records. Sonny Bono
song writing passion
For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic. Steve Kazee
song hours selling
Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day. Steve Jobs
song phones fiction
The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.