All Quotes

Sondheim writes the music and lyrics, and because he's so smart and goes so deep with his feelings, there's a lot to explore, get involved with and learn about.
‐‐ Bernadette Peters

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.
‐‐ Neil Diamond

Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.
‐‐ Gary Numan

Songs always get better after you start playing them live.
‐‐ Jason Mraz

Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.
‐‐ Yael Naim

Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.
‐‐ Tom Odell

Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about.
‐‐ Norah Jones

Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and they can have catchy and satisfying melodies. There's nothing wrong with songs.
‐‐ Russell Smith

Songs are life in 80 words or less.
‐‐ Neil Diamond

Songs are like children. They are all special to me - you can't just pick a favorite. Of course, 'Lucky Man' was a special tune with a wonderful story behind it. They have all done different things.
‐‐ Greg Lake

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.
‐‐ Trisha Yearwood

Songs are more powerful than books.
‐‐ Elvis Costello

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.
‐‐ Jakob Dylan

Songs are often character studies.
‐‐ John Darnielle

Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical, words like 'I don't think so' and a nice riff. It rolls from there.
‐‐ Ronnie Wood

Songs are really interesting in that way. Sometimes, they grow with you. Sometimes, you outgrow them.
‐‐ Jenny Lewis

Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally.
‐‐ Alison Krauss

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.
‐‐ David Bowie

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.
‐‐ Andy Gibb

Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.
‐‐ Levon Helm

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.
‐‐ Bob Weir

Songs lay a foundation of who I am going to be forever.
‐‐ Jessie J

Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.
‐‐ Rachel Stevens

Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.
‐‐ Juice Newton

Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.
‐‐ Amish Tripathi

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.
‐‐ Tom Waits

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.
‐‐ Dan Hill

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.
‐‐ Jo Stafford

Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

Songs that aren't even remotely connected to Christmas are now officially canonized Christmas tunes. 'Frosty the Snowman,' 'Jingle Bells' and 'Winter Wonderland' never mention anything religious but are still notches in Christmas' belt of musical dominance.
‐‐ Matisyahu

Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.
‐‐ Casey Kasem

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.
‐‐ Pete Seeger

Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.
‐‐ Nick Cave

Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, 'Yeah, songwritin' man,' looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off. In the early days, I'd write a bunch of lyrics and almost look at them as a sort of joke, to make the rest of the boys laugh.
‐‐ Alex Turner

Songwriters tell the truth.
‐‐ Kara DioGuardi

Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.
‐‐ Bruno Mars

Songwriting has always been close to me.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.
‐‐ Gary Kemp

Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
‐‐ Nick Cave

Songwriting is a give-and-take process, and it can lead to some good, healthy debates.
‐‐ Richie Sambora

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.
‐‐ Martin Gore

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.
‐‐ Tracy Chapman

Songwriting is actually a really great outlet. I kind of recommend it. You get to sum up whatever is going on in your life in a song, then perform it really passionately.
‐‐ Bridgit Mendler

Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.
‐‐ Jo Stafford

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.
‐‐ Neil Diamond

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
‐‐ Julian Casablancas

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.
‐‐ Sean Lennon