Top 100 Song A Song Quotes
#1. It often seems ... the human race has twittered away its existence singing an endless song - a song of waste and hatred, where there should be progress and love.
Oscar Arias
#2. Anything is food for starting a song. A song can start with a lyric idea or a melody or just a sound that inspires.
Alison Goldfrapp
#3. Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms ... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like a little song. A song sung by a forest ... within a forest ... a thousand years ago.
Milan Kundera
#4. Johnny [Depp] got this rock 'n' roll old soul to him. If I say a song, he goes, 'Oh yeah. I know that song.' A song he shouldn't know, a song that's not his generation at all. So he might as well have been there.
Alice Cooper
#6. I don't have to say I'm going to make a song. A song is always there. I just have to open my mouth and a song comes out.
Peter Tosh
#7. In the distance I hear a song - a simple song - a song of despair - a song of longing and a song of sorrow.
I have forgotten the words and the rhythm, but I sing.
Yes, I sing.
Pietros Maneos
#8. The song 'If I Had a Hammer' is geared toward people who don't have a hammer. Maybe before I had a hammer I thought I'd hammer in the morning and hammer in the evening. But once you get a hammer, you find you don't really hammer as much as you thought you would.
Ellen DeGeneres
#9. I think that that spirit, or at least the raucousness of maybe that, is in there. And then yeah, like, along the way, you fine tune it 'cause you're thinking, like, OK, we need to now turn this into a song.
Mark Ronson
#10. Some of the songs I wanted to be really full, [but] there's something to be said for just a voice and a guitar
Ingrid Michaelson
#11. Ahhhh ... I see. I think. Perhaps I don't. It may be easier to grasp if you presented it in a musical format. A lyrical song or two, accompanied by a whimsical dance to interpret the words.
Nicole Sager
#12. Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.
Henry Rollins
#13. Religion is like this; a prayer, a song, a flower, a white sugar ball, a chime of the brass bell, the rendering of mantra, closing one's eyes; Meditation.
Aporva Kala
#14. Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.
Alanis Morissette
#15. The Net
I made you many and many a song,
Yet never one told all you are
It was as though a net of words
Were flung to catch a star;
It was as though I curved my hand
And dipped sea-water eagerly,
Only to find it lost the blue
Dark splendor of the sea.
Sara Teasdale
#16. To the sight of the swallows dying in mid air, Alessandro was finally able to add his own benediction. "Dear God, I beg of you only one thing. Let me join the ones I love. Carry me to them, unite me with them, let me see them, let me touch them." And then it all ran together, like a song.
Mark Helprin
#17. I didn't want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh.
Berry Gordy
#18. I wrote a techno song after I was deported. I was in America for a little bit, but then I was deported back to Germany. I was very sad.
Flula Borg
#19. Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell.
Emily Giffin
#20. If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something. Irving Berlin can sing 60 that are immediately identifiable. Somebody once said you couldn't have a holiday without his permission.
Sammy Cahn
#21. At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly.
Brian Eno
#22. Millie told me once that the ability to devastate is what makes a song beautiful. Maybe that's what makes life beautiful too. The ability to devastate. Maybe that's how we know we've lived. How we know we've truly loved.
Amy Harmon
#23. When you love a song so much you have to sing, you know how you feel - it releases something in you that resonates as true, whether it's James Brown or Joni Mitchell.
Bonnie Raitt
#24. You have those songs that are very special to you that you don't want to get ruined by production. Something like 'Start Again' shouldn't be touched. It's a classic-sounding song on a piano and violins and harmonies, and I think those songs are perfect as they are.
Conrad Sewell
#25. Country music is the combination of African and European folk songs coming together and doing a little waltz right here in the American south. They came together at some cotillion, and somebody snuck a black person into the room, and he danced with a white lady, and music was born.
Ketch Secor
#26. If I find something I like, I'll chase it and see what comes out the other side. Once a song gets momentum and gets away from you, that's a good sign.
Dave Matthews
#27. If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?
Maya Angelou
#28. Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.
Bob Dylan
#29. I was in the ensemble and also covered the parts of Dee Dee and Mary!! I had a fantastic time doing this show especially when we performed in places like Cardiff and Glasgow where the audiences were just so enthusiastic, joining in with all the songs and up on their feet dancing at the end!!
Francesca Jackson
#31. Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?
Michael Jackson
#32. An idea without action is like a song without vocal.
Corine Timmer
#33. I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too. Some of my friends are proper musicians but I'm a song-writer. I write songs.
Jim Sturgess
#34. Every time I write a song my approach changes.
Shawn Mendes
#35. That's one way we differ, Jaime and I. He's taller as well, you may have noticed.
George R R Martin
#36. Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say. I write them down and figure out how to use that in a melody to write a song.
Leon Bridges
#37. Steam Lodge Song of the Sun Dance Ceremony:
A voice,
I will send.
Hear me!
The land
All over,
A voice
I am sending!
Hear me!
I will live!
Frances Densmore
#38. If I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song.
Jessie J.
#39. Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
Nancy Sinatra
#40. Sing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music ... Rise up and touch the stars
Susan Polis Schutz
#41. I worked with Snoop, but I would love to work with him again, but DMX ... I would love to work with him as well ... I met him in Atlanta; I went to one of his concerts; I would love to do a song with him. I respect him and really like his music.
Bow Wow
#42. We made basement practice songs.To have them presented in such a huge fashion today - like at Primavera, where it's thousands of people in a festival environment - is surreal. I never thought some of the songs would ever need to be projected at such a volume or to such a wide span of people.
David Pajo
#43. I am sailing on a ship bound for life.
a line in a song
Phil Wickham
#44. I'm such a copycat."I want to try and do this like the Donovan song 'Changes'," or "I want to do this bit from Van Morrison." I don't know how else to illustrate something, because I'm not a super-great musician. In that way, I'm more like the producer.
Eleanor Friedberger
#45. You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.
Jon Crosby
#46. Sometimes I don't even know what to name a song when I get done with it, and I'll let somebody else tell me what I should call it because it's whatever stuck in their head.
Justin Timberlake
#47. A white feather drops at my feet, and I know you're guiding me to where I'm meant to be - Angel Wings
Marie Symeou
#48. I'm leaving on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
John Denver
#49. When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
G.K. Chesterton
#50. I did a song, "Court and Spark," for a Joni Mitchell tribute album that's yet to see the light of day. So she's someone I'd like to do something with, sure. I worked with the great guitar player Bill Frisell on Phantom Moon - that was fun. I'm such a fan; he's amazing.
Duncan Sheik
#51. I can see God in a daisy. I can see God at night in the wind and rain. I see Creation just about everywhere. The highest form of song is prayer. King David's, Solomon's, the wailing of a coyote, the rumble of the Earth.
Bob Dylan
#52. What is clear to me today is that I must ignore the opinions and advice of others when they interfere with my own inner knowing. It is enough for me to know that I have a song, and by God, I intend to sing it.
Wayne W. Dyer
#53. I picked songs that I've been singing my whole life that stuck with me. I tried to pick stuff that was a variety. And I think the same way I always imagine that people are going to play the record at their house and I imagine them doing stuff with music on, like the way I am.
Chris Isaak
#54. When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club - we hooped together in Chicago - he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.
R. Kelly
#55. I definitely like to go out and dance. I'm a big vibe person when it comes to music so a song really has to make me feel a certain way in order for me to fall in love with it.
Britney Spears
#56. I simply knew, via song, sunlight, redwings and cottonwoods, that there was a world I was born to live in, that the men I was standing beside lived in another, and that as long as I remembered this their words would never hurt me again.
David James Duncan
#57. The breath of song in your remembering eyes cascades fragile reflections of time-steeped sunsets tinting delicate snowflakes with the solitude of a sleeping forest where ancient secrets lie waiting, undisturbed by knowing, tranquil in the forgetfulness of yesterday's silvery silence
Sean Terrence Best
#58. T.H. moved through the forest like the melody of a well-known song, in perfect harmony with his surroundings.
Charles De Lint
#59. When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.
Lyle Lovett
#60. I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.
John Lee Hooker
#61. Vocal arrangements are something I'm working a lot with for the new songs.
Jens Lekman
#62. From very early on, I've realized that and I have a mission statement with my songs to entertain, to encourage and to challenge the Body of Christ. That's always kind of the focus of the songs that I write for myself.
Jonny Diaz
#63. 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
#64. When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.
Patrick Carney
#65. I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.
Zedd
#66. For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it.
Annie E. Clark
#67. Finally I started really opening up as a songwriter and an interpreter and taking songs from all kind of genres and stripping them down to just lyrics and the story inside the lyrics, and trying to make them really mine.
Lizz Wright
#68. I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it.
Estelle Fanta Swaray
#69. The bubble headed bleach blonde comes on at five, she can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye. It's interesting when people die, gives us dirty laundry.
Don Henley
#70. Why is it that when your life is at a breaking point, every freaking song on the radio relates to it. If I heard one more sad song, I was going to rip the radio out of the dash and toss it out on the road.
Jennifer Foor
#71. If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it.
Conor Oberst
#72. The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song.
Nick Cave
#73. You're like a song I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew untill I heard it again
Maggie Stiefvater
#74. It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
(After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero'
by Mariah Carey)
Simon Cowell
#75. When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a song for a movie. When I don't know where to turn musically, being in a band - Rilo Kiley or Jenny & Johnny - the collaborative nature is really exciting.
Jenny Lewis
#76. I care about the records I make and I love writing songs and some songs are really dear to me and they mean something. But the memory of making the records and the activities surrounding the records, the people involved in them is actually a bigger thing to me.
Joel Plaskett
#77. When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.
Loretta Lynn
#78. It doesn't take a year to sing a song. Takes a year for people to figure out how to market it.
Chrisette Michele
#79. In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.
David Byrne
#80. I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.
Joe Cocker
#81. I like people that can strap on a guitar and don't sweat the fact that you have to come up with a song in an hour. I want to work with someone who won't feel like they have to play along with Jason Molina. I want them to just have the confidence.
Jason Molina
#82. I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.
Beth Gibbons
#83. 'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
Taylor Swift
#84. 'Victorious' for me was a chance to write a song exactly how I was feeling - I was feeling triumphant, I was feeling like I could do anything as long as I've got the people that I love by my side. We're gonna go out and conquer it, and party, and just be awesome.
Brendon Urie
#85. Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no stability, no influence, no fashion, no size. Its only real arts are song and drama and poem. But Limerick alone has two thousand ruined castles and surely that many practicing poets.
Shana Alexander
#86. It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.
Jared Leto
#87. I think that a great song needs the full package. I think that a great song needs everything from lyrics, to melody, to music, and it needs to be interesting and it needs take you in and swallow you and swish you around, and then regurgitate you back in better form.
William Beckett
#88. I've recorded myself for four or five years and have been doing lots of experiments. I'm not that good an engineer - so it always becomes a different song - but I have ideas.
Gustav Ejstes
#89. Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
Martha Graham
#90. I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
Rachel Platten
#91. With every record, with each band, I just try to make a song good. I'm not so much focusing on my technique. There are a million better drummers than me. I try to adapt to the songwriter; I try to adapt to the situation and retain my sort of melodic power. My goal is for the band to be good.
Janet Weiss
#92. Oh, you've outdone me twice now, you queen of forgiveness. The ring's a promise of peace and I'm greedy with hope. It's a song that we sing in a tongue that we share. And though you say it's a gift from a king to a king, I say it's a sign from a queen to a queen.
Melina Marchetta
#93. When the season transforms the weather, When leaves fall and nights grow long, That's the time when the spirits gather, They might scare you, but I never fear. I walk past the graveyard and sing a song, Cuz things aren't always as they appear.
Bryant Delafosse
#94. Life is a song. Your thoughts are the music. Now play beautiful music and sing a wonderful song.
Debasish Mridha
#95. The studio's a collaborative environment. I just try to let people bring their own ideas to the songs and see what happens.
John Darnielle
#96. But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.
Suzanne Vega
#98. Using my thumb and middle finger, I tend to make snap decisions. Right away I know whether I like a song or not.
Jarod Kintz
#99. Let me be kind, let me be compassionate, let me be joyful, and let me sing a song of love.
Debasish Mridha
#100. Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.
Yip Harburg
