Good Son Quotes · Page 5

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

— Phil Ochs

Sometimes an unexpected chord change can be the difference between a good song and a great song.

— Gary Talley

Just knowing how to rap doesn't necessarily mean that you're a good songwriter.

— Danny Brown

You can't write a good song about a whorehouse unless you've been in one.

— Woody Guthrie

I don't do concept records anymore - I just prefer doing good songs.

— Coolio

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

— Siddharth Katragadda

In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.

— Steven Tyler

Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it to warm up a lot.

— Amy Lee

Actually, my career as a music director turned out to be a disappointment. I believed I gave good songs but the response…

— Vijay Antony

I think all my songs are good but that doesn't mean that everyone else does. I'm fine with that - I trust…

— Griff

When you know you have a good song, when you're onstage, even if it's just a weird, basic energy, you know your…

— Duff McKagan

I Want To Say Something About Me: I'm Not A Good… …Son ….Brother ……Husband ………Father Because……... . I'm Haven A Child'sHeart Who…

— Mak_786

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you…

— Pete Seeger

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

— Chris Martin

You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different…

— Chris Cornell

“They's a lot of no-good sonofabitches out there." Arvin asks, "More than a hundred?" Willard laughed a little and put the truck…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye's doing what he's…

— Will Ferrell

I think it is good for people who are incarcerated or who are bound up one way or the other-people like Lily…

— Ketch Secor

If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies,…

— James Blunt

As long as songs are about something, it doesn't matter. When songs are just rhymes, and they don't mean anything, I'm not…

— Matty Healy

I had the lyric 'Chip Don't Go' and a few words, and my wife came in and said that it sounded like…

— Mat Kearney

Linkin Park has been a band for such a long time, for me, in my eyes. I was 16 years old when…

— Austin Carlile

I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but…

— Alex Chilton

A lot of commercial country does speak to people in some way. It's more of a ear worm or a melody that's…

— Tyler Childers

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

— Madonna Ciccone

Basically, I listen to voices. If they write good songs and they can sing, I'll probably like it.

— India Arie

“Sure, Bob Dylan had some good songs. But he could have been a doctor.”

— R.S. Gompertz

I heard he sang a good song. I heard he had a style.

— Roberta Flack

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

— George Thorogood

“A good song should life your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.”

— Colbie Caillat

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

— Jazmine Sullivan

People don't really listen to albums anymore. They just find good songs.

— Kygo

My aspirations aren't to sell millions of records, but to write really good songs.

— Tom Odell

I think that talent, good songwriting and passion, will always outlast hype.

— Beau Bokan

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

— Travis Barker

“A good song had the power to change someone's whole outlook in so many ways.”

— Lindy Zart

My life is good. My son, on the other hand, is wearing headgear.

— Haley James Scott

I've always had good songs, it's the great songs that are difficult to find.

— Anne Murray

I'm grateful my son was - as any mother would say, I had a very good son.

— Afeni Shakur

I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.

— Billie Joe Armstrong