Song About Quotes

#1. You know, I've always wrote my best stuff when it takes me hardly any time at all. Actually I wrote ... this is actually a really funny story ... 'Ghost Of Vincent Price', I've been wanting to write a song about Vincent Price coz he's one of my favorite characters of all time.

Wednesday 13

#2. None of us ever thought to write a song about all the shit that was going on back then: war, revolution, civil war, turmoil. Our songs were trying to take you someplace else.

Levon Helm

#3. Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I think she's dating for creativity. So let's get her off the market and put her in dating detox. If she really wants love, she has to stop writing music about them.

Patti Stanger

#4. And you know there's nothing like writing a song about someone who's mean to you, and just makes your life miserable ... and then winning a Grammy for it.

Taylor Swift

#5. When we're on stage doing a song about positive body image or another about female empowerment, everyone out there is super into it and right there with us. It's been awesome. I feel like we fit right in.

Lizzo

#6. I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

Taylor Swift

#7. Is this the point where I sing the little song about Pic and London sittin' in a tree?" "Only if you want the tree shoved up your ass.

Joanna Wylde

#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. I was married at the time when I first joined the band and my wife said: 'Why don't you write a song about me ?' So I wrote 'She's got balls'. Then she divorced me.

Bon Scott

#10. Run was a song about grasping for happiness just out of reach, about endless, temporary good-byes. A song only a ghost should sing.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#11. Hey, Dad, check this out!" Ike stared at the boy. He clearly wanted to be down there watching his kid possibly crack his skull open, rather than recording a song about how frightened he was that his kids might crack their skulls open.

Steve Almond

#12. You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on.

Hank Williams Jr.

#13. November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.

Axl Rose

#14. I'm able to draw outside my own personal experiences. No one wants to hear the song about what I really did today, which is go get coffee and clean my apartment.

Craig Finn

#15. Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

Natasha Bedingfield

#16. I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that?

Loudon Wainwright III

#17. You have such a perfect dick," she says as I lean back and close my eyes, my body tensing as I try to restrain myself. "I could write a song about it.

Karina Halle

#18. I think my song about 'I want to have your babies' really does freak a lot of guys out, not just my boyfriend!

Natasha Bedingfield

#19. People said it was a song about drugs, but John Lennon said the name came from a picture his son painted of a girl at school.

Aminatta Forna

#20. It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.

CeeLo Green

#21. Disquiet and desire. What you want and what you're scared to try for. Where you've been and where you want to go. Something in a rock-and-roll song about wanting the girl, the car, the place to stand and be. Oh please God can you dig it.

Stephen King

#22. I lost my brother in a car wreck when I was 14 years old. When I decided I wanted to be a country singer, my dad always told me, 'Son, you should write a song about your brother.'

Blake Shelton

#23. I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it ... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

Ty Segall

#24. A country song is a song about life.

Alan Jackson

#25. I think I took a few stabs at writing socially conscious lyrics. I had never intended to write a song about the Gulf War, but when I wrote "Before You Hit The Floor," I didn't know what the hell was going on in the world.

Bucky Pope

#26. I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language.

Margaret Cho

#27. I might've set out to write a particular song about a particular girl, but my experience will run out after four lines, so instead of getting obsessed with the girl, I write about the clothes I'm wearing.

Max Tundra

#28. I am not cute. I am the dreaded Grim Reaper. People fear me, you know. There's a whole song about it.

Rachel Vincent

#29. There's a bit of hope that a song can be about anything. If you want to write a song about anything, you can, and you don't have to put it through the process of having it be trendy or cool or generic pop or these types.

M.I.A.

#30. It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love.

Gian Carlo Menotti

#31. It was a little difficult to take him seriously when he sang along to a song about a woman taking another woman's man.

Holly Hood

#32. I've made up a song about the new Folks," he (Little Georgie)added eagerly. "Would you like to hear it?"
Don't think I would," answered Uncle Analdas.

Robert Lawson

#33. Do you know my band's song Once in a Lifetime?"
I nod my head because I know that song very well. It's one of the ones I used to listen repeatedly on my iPod.
"I wrote that song about you. About meeting you that night.

Kim Karr

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

Woody Guthrie

#35. Not really. But I'm a huge fan of your ass. I could write a song about your ass. "
"You've never even seen it."
"Feeling is believing.

Emily Snow

#36. I'd always wanted to write a song about a leather jacket and how wearing it makes you feel. I love leather jackets, and I've got a big collection of them.

Marc Almond

#37. Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.

Don Henley

#38. I don't think of community as being a romantic notion. I think it's as vital as air and water, and so I think that informs a lot of what I write about. It could be a story about a couple, or a song about the slow death of the family farm or a small town.

Greg Brown

#39. We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought of centering a song around.

Taryn Manning

#40. Bloody Hammer is a screw capitalism song about college kids banging hammers on top of the roof.

Roky Erickson

#41. Did the ancient Gaels not wear undergarments?" Frank leered. "You've never heard that old song about what a Scotsman wears beneath his kilts?

Diana Gabaldon

#42. The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn't really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.

Paul Simon

#43. I'm super-obsessed with 'Intervention.' I wrote a song about it.

Margaret Cho

#44. When I see something I end up making a song about it and that's the way it is. There have been plenty of times when I've been in the studio and they were like, "Hey, why don't you make a song about such and such," and I just can't. I've gotta have it in my heart.

Amanda Perez

#45. I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.

Flula Borg

#46. On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums. There'll be a song about Saskatchewan and Vancouver and Nova Scotia on there.

Stompin' Tom Connors

#47. It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's like that. It's not real. It's unreal, it's all fabrication. To write a song about Obama would suddenly break the spell.

Sufjan Stevens

#48. My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, 'OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what it's like.' I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing 'Memory.' I was terrible. Terrible.

Emilia Clarke

#49. People talk to me a lot about, "Why don't you ever rebel?" And I feel like I do rebel. To me, rebelling is - is that rush you get when you sing a song about someone and you know they're in the crowd.

Taylor Swift

#50. He would soak in that silver glow until it shone from his eyes and sing a long song about hunting and running through the dark wood in the middle of the night.

Ilona Andrews

#51. I'm not one of these people who sits down and writes to say I'm gonna write a song about this or that, or a specific subject. The songs actually kind of write themselves.

Creed Bratton

#52. I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.

Tracy Chapman

#53. I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?

Frank Zappa

#54. If you'd only met her in Gotham, for instance, I should have had a song all ready for you. When you came in, I was just perfecting a little song about a wild woman of Gotham, who made love to young men and then shot 'em - till

Leslie Charteris

#55. The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.

Mercedes Lackey

#56. I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.

Boots Riley

#57. Bridget reckons John Lennon wrote a song about her. I'm guessing it was 'Give Peace a Chance'.

Bridget Golightly

#58. When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.

Florence Welch

#59. If Jimmy indeed cracked corn and you truly didn't care, why the fuck did you write a song about it? I call bullshit.

Jim Goad

#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. I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like ... I would definitely do that.

Jack White

#62. We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.

Tina Weymouth

#63. Joseph Beringer ... dances around behind me singing some poorly rhymed and slightly dirty song about my [racing] odds at my skirts.
'I don't even wear skirts,' I snap at him.
'Especially,' he says, 'in my daydreams.

Maggie Stiefvater

#64. They were frightening enough, but Tessa could not help but feel that if Will were there, he would have commented that they looked like turnips, and perhaps made up a song about it.

Cassandra Clare

#65. I'm not into that whole Satanic thing. It's just something to fall back on if you don't have much imagination. Singing you fiftieth song about having lunch with Satan
I'm not into it. It's silly.

Kirk Hammett

#66. Man down is a song about a girl who has committed a murder that she regrets and is completely remorseful about.

Rihanna

#67. I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

Amy Winehouse

#68. Oh no," I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then "oh no" is apparently that song's chorus, the words we always return to.

Brock Clarke

#69. Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.

Delta Goodrem

#70. I listen to, like, funky Chicago blues. I love blues, but I love the funky, happy blues. There's a song about pretty much everything, including kidney stones, believe it or not. So there's something there for whatever you happen to be suffering, you know?

Sinead O'Connor

#71. I was at a picnic, and there were a lot of songwriters. I remember praying, 'God I wish you would give me a song.' About five minutes later, my ears popped, and I saw everybody in slow motion. Nobody knew what I was experiencing.

Andrae Crouch

#72. I don't sit down and say I'm going to write a song about this or that. They are never mapped out.

John Darnielle

#73. Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb." So I piped with merry cheer; "Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped; he wept to hear.

William Blake

#74. Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a different lifestyle and writing a song about it. Likewise, my acting inspires the music because I can write a theme that I wouldn't necessarily approach at all in life.

Bryan Greenberg

#75. Everything (N.W.A.) attempted had to possess criminal undertones. I can only assume they spent hours trying to deduce villainous ways to microwave popcorn (and if they'd succeeded, there would absolutely be a song about it, assumedly titled "Pop Goes the Corn Killa", or "45 Seconds to Bitch Snack").

Chuck Klosterman

#76. -What is the song about? I asked.
-Death, he answered with a laugh. But don't worry, nobody dies, it is the death of love.

Patti Smith

#77. I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was always more comfortable writing fiction.

Robbie Robertson

#78. You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.'

Jarvis Cocker

#79. Okay, my life isn't that romantic! No one has ever sung to me or wrote a song about me. But, I have to say that it's pretty much the most romantic thing ever. So, if that were ever to really happen to me, I would be really happy about it.

Chloe Bridges

#80. Their grandchildren had reminded Will of the song about demon pox he had taught them- when they were much too young, Tessa had always thought- and that they had all memorized. They sang it all together and out of tune, scandalizing Sophie.

Cassandra Clare

#81. "Straight Edge" was a song about my life. There was no structure, no premise as if I was forming a club. There were no tenets. I mean I wrote a song called "Straight Edge," I'll take that, but the song was about my life the way I wanted to live it.

Ian MacKaye

#82. A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.

Brittany Howard

#83. How come you have never written a song about me?
I'm not really good at writing about things that make me happy.

Gayle Forman

#84. Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love ... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

Curtis Mayfield

#85. Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

Norah Jones

#86. If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to write a song about a ski resort.

Adam Schlesinger

#87. Honestly, musicals? I just can't. What if this was real life and I was just walking down the street on Rodeo Drive and all of a sudden I just burst into song about how much I love shoes?

Miley Cyrus

#88. People try to be more edgy, or write about that first explosive meeting between two people in a club, but not so much the long-term issues; I don't know how to write a song about teenage heartbreak anymore.

Joe Goddard

#89. There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.

Sue Monk Kidd

#90. If you were quiet about something then it never happened. Someone would write a song about it for sure. Everything you're not supposed to know about, or talk about, eventually turned up in a song. Some

Jennifer Clement

#91. I usually write from my own experience, and that's definitely a true statement for me. I think having a song about desiring to live and wanting to get it right, which many of my songs do, often I have to clarify that I haven't figured it out yet.

Jon Foreman

#92. I know a song about him. But I thought he lived a hundred years ago.
We all did. Once I was as young as you.

George R R Martin

#93. I started writing songs when I was a little kid actually. I wrote a song about Catwoman and I wrote a song about Leprechauns, as a little kid.

Bonnie McKee

#94. Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, but write it in such a way that American's youth can identify and slurp along with the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-11!

Henry Rollins

#95. I think I have a hard time expressing myself in my relationships. I use songs to tell people how I'm feeling. If I can't say 'I love you,' I'll write a song about it and hope that the person figures it out.

Jenny Lewis

#96. I remember my first standup act when I was seventeen; I did a really lame song about being flat chested. I was doing it in New York, and I remember Kevin Brennan, the guy I lost my virginity to, was like "That song doesn't make sense, you have tits."

Sarah Silverman

#97. The most popular single in the world was "Livin' la Vida Loca," a song about how Pro Tools made Puerto Ricans gay.

Chuck Klosterman

#98. 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

#99. I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.

Diane Warren

#100. History has proven that it's impossible to crush the artist. There's always gonna be a need for somebody to write a poem or sing a song about something, about life - that makes it real. There's the word that goes beyond the word.

Mos Def