Song Quotes

When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.

~ James Taylor

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

~ Mahalia Jackson

I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.

~ Zooey Deschanel

Christmas is never going to go away, and it's always going to be there. And there's always room for one more Christmas song, I think.

~ Johnny Mathis

Most of us remember Nat King Cole as a vocalist. His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely identified with such familiar ballads as 'Stardust' and 'The Christmas Song' that it's hard to imagine anyone else performing them.

~ Terry Teachout

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.

~ Trey Parker

The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.

~ Rick Springfield

Everybody loves a good Christmas song if you do it right.

~ Sabrina Carpenter

The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir.

~ Greg Graffin

I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called 'Christmas in Heaven' about missing someone that you love that's passed on, and wondering what's going on up there on Christmas.

~ Scotty Mccreery

I'd love to have a Christmas classic under my belt. It's hard to write a Christmas song.

~ Patty Smyth

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.

~ Clint Black

One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.'

~ Chance The Rapper

It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'

~ Dave Grohl

I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that I'm ever gonna write a song that you will know who it's about.

~ Ed Sheeran

Vine is where 'Don't' started popping off. A lot of famous Viners used the song, and that was crazy because I had never been a part of something like that. I drank champagne for the first time when it got 100,000 plays.

~ Bryson Tiller

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

~ Richard Rohr

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

~ Stevie Wonder

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

~ E. Y. Harburg

That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.

~ Harry Styles

I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.

~ Zack De La Rocha

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

~ Amy Winehouse

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

~ Pope John Paul Ii

The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That's why people feel each song differently. I get all my vibes from rock music, you know? All my melodies and all that.

~ Lil Uzi Vert

To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.

~ Carrie Brownstein

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

~ Louis Armstrong

A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.

~ Moby

A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.

~ Ira Gershwin

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.

~ Talib Kweli

Every song is like a painting.

~ Dick Dale

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

~ Gary Wright

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

~ George Thorogood

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

~ Bono

Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.

~ Sammy Cahn

When you learn a Bruce Springsteen song, it's like learning to ride a bike. You don't forget it.

~ Clarence Clemons

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

~ Ronnie Hawkins

Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.

~ Konrad Von Gesner

I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.

~ Tom Petty

Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.

~ George R. R. Martin

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.

~ Graham Nash