Good Song Quotes

#1. As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

Lyle Lovett

#2. A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs.

Tom Morello

#3. I think a "song" is, like, just play it on the guitar and sing it. You look out and see thousands of covers of "Animal" for example, so you think, "That was probably a pretty good song, because people feel like it's satisfying to just play it with one instrument accompanying it."

Andrew Wyatt

#4. A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able to continue singing these songs for all who want to listen, Republicans, Democrats, and independents.

Pete Seeger

#5. I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.

Paul Simon

#6. Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

Joan Armatrading

#7. Without love it is like having a good song without an audience.

Fanny Brice

#8. I have definitely written a happy song about someone and then we ended up splitting up, but you have to put those kind of things to the back of your mind and tell yourself that it's a good song and it works on the album.

Joe Jonas

#9. To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism that communicates a real feeling to someone else. You have to be real. Or you have to be a really good storyteller.

Daryl Hall

#10. Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.

Benmont Tench

#11. You cannot expect all the heroes to survive a good song

Joe Abercrombie

#12. A good song stays in your head because it's catchy, a great song stays because it means something to you.

Tove Lo

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

Lindy Zart

#14. A good song has to have a great melody, and the lyrics have to touch my heart. Now, if it's just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can't make you feel good.

Reba McEntire

#15. For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.

Marc Almond

#16. One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.

Manfred Mann

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

George Thorogood

#18. Glen Campbell told me, 'Stay out of the way of a good song.' I think it's true. If a song's good, don't overdo it.

Chris Isaak

#19. I hate it when you buy a record for the single and find out that is the only good song on the album.

Christian Burns

#20. It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

Bob Seger

#21. What you believe one day isn't what you believe the next day and I think every writer secretly believes that they may never be able to do write good song or script again, but they can.

Cameron Crowe

#22. There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.

Norah Jones

#23. It seems like songwriting for most songwriters is only one season in their life, a five or ten year period. For me, I don't worry about it, but I know there might come a day when I can't write anymore, or don't have good song ideas or the fire to do it anymore.

Rodney Clawson

#24. I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.

Robert Hunter

#25. There's nothing worse than a good video and good song, and you see a band and hate them because they can't perform. That's wack.

Chuck D

#26. A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#27. The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.

Halldor Laxness

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

Gary Talley

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

Woody Guthrie

#30. If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.

Brett Dennen

#31. 'Free Fallin' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.

Tom Petty

#32. But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.

Don McLean

#33. That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

Mick Ralphs

#34. In a world where like everyone's so accessible now, to say something new in an article that you can't find out about a n - - through his Twitter or like Googling him or some s - - is rare. Just like how a good song is rare.

Earl Sweatshirt

#35. 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

#36. A good song is like a mannequin - its form makes sense, but there's no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful lyric, appropriate arrangement.

Greta Salpeter

#37. Like a good song, life has verses, the goliards had taught me. Each verse has to be sung. It takes all of them to make a song. It is the entire chanson you name, but when you think of it, when you smile, it is a favorite verse that delights your ears.

James Patterson

#38. I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.

Neil Peart

#39. God willing, we shall this day meet that old enemy
Who has give us so many a good beating.
Thank God we have a cause worth fighting for,
And a cause worth losing and a good song to sing.

John Gould Fletcher

#40. In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone.

Craig Finn

#41. Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

Ville Valo

#42. I think that a good song is catchy, and a great song is not catchy - but it has a deeper meaning.

Courtney Barnett

#43. If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

Alex Chilton

#44. You can argue with a philosopher, but you can't argue with a good song. And I think I've got a few good songs.

Cat Stevens

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

Pete Seeger

#46. A good song and good musicians can really move mountains.

Joey Tempest

#47. If you've got a good song, it's easy to play. But you can't make a bad song sound good no matter who you have to play on it.

Donald Dunn

#48. A good journal entry- like a good song, or sketch, or photograph- ought to break up the habitual and life away the film that forms over the eye, the finger, the tongue, the heart. A good journal entry ought to be a love letter to the world.

Anthony Doerr

#49. A good song can be produced in several different genres.

Wendy Starland

#50. A good song is a good song whatever your age.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#51. I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

#52. I feel like 'Beware' is a heartfelt song - it's something that is definitely a story, something that I cultivated from personal stories, some from just other stories in just wanting to make a good song.

Big Sean

#53. Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.

Joe Elliott

#54. Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.

Michelle Dockery

#55. I think that songwriting is understood from an early age that was the priority to figure out first. Learn to write a good song, and then figure out who you are as an artist because, once you know how to write a good song, you can dress it in any kind of clothing.

Lights

#56. If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

George Strait

#57. I like "God Give Me the Strength" very much. It's not really a blues and to call it a ballad is absurd. I don't know, its mid-tempo. Mark (St. John) actually wrote it and I think its very telling of our lives in the 60s. Its just a good song, ya know ...

Dick Taylor

#58. 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

#59. I love Lady Gaga, Rihanna - all the pop girls like Katy Perry. I think Miley Cyrus is very talented, too. Apart from the visuals, which you may like or not like, but her music is quite good, actually. 'Wrecking Ball' is quite a good song, and she sang it really nicely.

Giorgio Moroder

#60. You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

Joni Mitchell

#61. Music can make you feel things that aren't yours - sadness, or love, or joy. A good song has a magic to it. It pulls you in and the feelings in the music take over and you become the music, you become the song.

Michelle Frost

#62. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. Yeah, that was a good song. My theme song. But really I thought it was everybody's theme song.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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

Jazmine Sullivan

#64. I got signed with the songwriting deal when I was sixteen and they were really great - my publishers, who to this day are still my publishers and are like my musical family, my second family - they took me in and taught me what a good song is.

Lights

#65. I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else.

Hoda Kotb

#66. You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come up with a really good song.

Brian Wilson

#67. There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything.

David Byrne

#68. I would say a great song [is where] you like everything in the song. The lyrics move you, the beat makes you want to dance and you feel invincible when you listen to that song. A good song I think you can listen to but you get tired of it really fast.

Aino Jawo

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

Steven Tyler

#70. A good song deals with the human condition, and the truth of the human condition.

Emmylou Harris

#71. When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself.

Jose Gonzalez

#72. If it is a good song, it is a good song. The Beatles were pop, the beach boys were pop and it's the best music of all time.

William Fitzsimmons

#73. The bottom line is fans just want to hear a good song. Some people will look underneath to see who wrote it, but they just want to hear a good song. And if they don't hear it, they're not going to buy it just because you wrote it.

Joe Perry

#74. I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.

Willie Nelson

#75. I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

Waylon Jennings

#76. It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done.

James Iha

#77. 'Something Good' is a feel-good song. A reminder that you're dope and have something wonderful to offer life and yourself and the world.

Estelle

#78. Most people don't really need to hear a six-minute guitar solo that modulates between five keys and time signatures. What they want is a good song.

Rivers Cuomo

#79. The difference between a good song and a great song is a good song is one that you know, you'll put on in your car or you'll dance to it. But I think a great song you'll cry to it, or you get chills. I think a great song says how you feel better than you could.

Taylor Swift

#80. A good song receives love forever.

Kim Jong-hyun

#81. Reality is that even if you come out with a really good song, all will go to waste without good promotion.

Seungri

#82. I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Iggy Azalea

#83. A good song is a nice set of chords and some good lyrics; a great song is a song that reinvents itself over time. That you can always find something interesting in the more you listen to it - it keeps revealing something to you.

Bryce Dessner

#84. To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

Alan Jackson

#85. I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?

Bryan Adams

#86. A good song can make you smile, or it can make you dance or laugh or remind you of a moment.

Charli XCX

#87. I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

Lucinda Williams

#88. I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

Tim Finn

#89. Musically, there's probably nothing better than, after spending weeks or months of grinding on a lyric or a song, when you play a good song from beginning to end for the first time - there's a moment there where all the pain and suffering is worth it.

Five For Fighting

#90. A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.

Lauren Mayberry

#91. Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it's mean. When it's a good song everybody thinks it's about them. And when it's mean, nobody thinks it's about them.

Sara Bareilles

#92. A good song reminds us what we're fighting for.

Pete Seeger

#93. There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

Corey Taylor

#94. Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.

Sarah Dessen

#95. I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.

David Cook

#96. It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.

Eric Bachmann

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

Phil Ochs

#98. I've been through almost every type of obsession as far as music genres go, so I usually say I just like a good song, but the songs that are the most universal that a person on the other side of the world knows and can relate to is a very powerful entity.

Mark Salling

#99. I hope at some point in my career when my name is mentioned, someone will say "Oh yeah he has a good song!" I'd be happy with that.

Brian McKnight

#100. I watched their reactions and emotions, especially to understand what was what I was doing wrong. But then I realized that if I could see these people and take note of everything I saw, I could write a good song.

Taylor Swift