Create Quote by Sharon Van Etten

Because the beauty of songs, I think, is if you do it right a lot of people can relate to it in their own…

— Amanda Shires

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.

— Chamillionaire

It's frustrating that people attribute something to certain songs and that's not what they're about at all.

— Matt Tong

When you listen to the music, you see little movies in your head, and that's the beauty of it, I think. People can make…

— Sune Rose Wagner

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…

— Vince Gill

When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.

— Negash Ali

It's very strange when people get so focused on what a song means, what actual events inspired a song. That gets people really excited…

— Conor Oberst

People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that the songs aren't…

— Tom Waits

If people can't relate to something, there's no use of the song being there.

— Johnny Van Zant

I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways…

— Noah Baumbach

I would agree with that. But when I write lyrics, personally I don't care if the person who is listening to it understands what…

— David W. Marsden

It's funny: I look at songs, and I guess they each tell a story, and the different songs talk about different things. But they're…

— Dianne Reeves