Song Quotes · Page 738

I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere.

— Johnny Cash

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though…

— Slick Rick

I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

— Diana Krall

Practice? I never practice. I just write songs and take solos.

— Tom Verlaine

[Blow Ya Mind] it's a feel good song, a relaxed song... people are just digging it.

— Styles P

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

— Mark Hoppus

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for…

— Smokey Robinson

I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song.

— James Taylor

“For in song lies the mystery of Being.”

— Mohja Kahf

For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will…

— Saint Bernard

You have 'listeners' ears' when you're just starting out, and your 'listeners' ears' tell you what will work. You lose those ears…

— Gene Pitney

“And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.”

— Anonymous

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demo-graphic of people I'm…

— Taylor Swift

I had a very important personal point to make with this song [I Want Your Sex]. I just hated the idea that…

— George Michael

I'm without a doubt a producer first. The lyrics happen towards the tail-end of the process, mainly because they're more stream-of-consciousness. It's…

— Washed Out

I've been writing songs since I was a teenager, so one kind of song I've written a lot is about, I don't…

— Ezra Furman

I think people relate to Skynyrd; it's a working class band. They're just songs with messages. To this day, there's never been…

— Johnny Van Zant

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that…

— Stephen Sondheim

Well we usually just try to do a mix from all the albums so if somebody just has one they don't get…

— Mason Jennings

My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs…

— David Pajo

Actually, 'Phir Na Mile Kabhi' is a very emotional and a heartbreak song and somewhere it does touch the heart of the…

— Ankit Tiwari

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're…

— Mel Torme

Sometimes I'm so lost in my thoughts that I don't realize I'm listening to a song until it's almost over.

— Anonymous

When I hear somebody like Hayes Carll write a song that's touching and poignant and sad and funny all at the same…

— Jason Isbell