Quotes About Song Titles

#1. You have all these song titles and song time, and you put it in a certain order, and you slap a cover on it. That's a record. That's how I've seen all my records.

Ariel Pink

#2. Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.

Elvis Costello

#3. But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

Neil Innes

#4. With song titles, I try to keep a healthy sense of humor while saying something at the same time.

Arca

#5. I had an epiphany where I realised that there are song titles everywhere - in advertising, in conversations with people at the grocery store - and every time I open my mind to that and find titles, I then weave a story around that.

Bonnie McKee

#6. I write titles of songs a lot. sometimes I'll end up writing a song that I don't have a title for and I'll say, 'Oh, this goes with that title.

Shuggie Otis

#7. Here are some funny songs, there are some songs that we didn't even remember. I heard this song that Ringo is singing, I still don't know the title of it, but it is got the most amazing lyrics and it's a quite a good production. And quite a good tun

George Harrison

#8. Tell me what this means," Dax said. "I'm a busy woman with a ship to run and a crisis to handle and I've surrounded myself with smart, dedicated people for the sole purpose of interpreting unintelligible squiggles for me.

Una McCormack

#9. Chi is developed through meditation, through studying with one who has a great deal of it.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Don Quixote was a song for a 1969 Michael Douglas movie called Hail Hero! I wrote the title song for the film and they also used the Don Quixote one I had submitted.

Gordon Lightfoot

#11. As a writer, I never paid much attention to the length of titles. I've just wanted them to communicate the emotional overtones of the content of a record or song that they are describing

Jacob Bannon

#12. I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.

Lyle Lovett

#13. It's dangerous, son."
"What's dangerous?"
"When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.

Lorraine Hansberry

#14. Rich dad explained to me that the hardest part of running a company is managing people.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#15. My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.

Bernie Taupin

#16. In the future, women will have breasts all over. In the future, it will be a relief to find a place without culture. In the future, plates of food will have names and titles. In the future, we will all drive standing up. In the future, love will be taught on television and by listening to pop songs.

David Byrne

#17. I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

Wanda Jackson

#18. The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.

Patti Page

#19. After a night of insomnia the body gets weaker,
Becomes dear but no one's - not even your own.

Marina Tsvetaeva

#20. Never wear anything that panics the cat.

P. J. O'Rourke

#21. No one is free from something; something will surely be the reason for our actions!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#22. You have to have a plan. Everything has to be planned. For me, I start with the title of my album, before I even start with the songs. I write down different things that I want album to say, and then the songs come from the different words.

Mary J. Blige

#23. I'll get into conversations with other people, and all of a sudden they will say something that sparks that ... either the titles to me, or just the conversation itself will spark an idea for a song.

LeAnn Rimes

#24. I like to give clues - titles - that can give a simple, evocative hook into what picture or feeling welled up in my mind when I came up with the song.

David First

#25. We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make our own chlorophyll and float it out in the sun inside plastic mebranes. We will build Scarsdale on Mount Everest.

Lewis Thomas

#26. Somewhere inside you is that free person I'm talking about. Locate her and let her do some good in the world

Toni Morrison

#27. The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present.

Billy Corgan

#28. When I first started, the very first body of music I made when I got signed to Atlantic were songs with titles like 'Unify' and 'You're Special.' And there's this song that reminds me of Meghan Trainor that I wrote, about a woman's body and not conforming, when I first started in music.

Wynter Gordon

#29. I think it was Tommy who told me, 'When your song is called 'XYZ' or whatever, every line has got to make sense against your title.' He showed me little methods of proving to yourself whether the line belongs, and ways of finding out whether you were able to get more out of a line if you tried.

Merle Haggard

#30. Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.

Marvin Hamlisch

#31. Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.

Cyndi Lauper

#32. Sutures of lightning tightened the edges of the sky.

T. J. MacGregor