Song Names Quotes

#1. As much as Metallica rocked, they always had these song names ... 'The Thing That Shouldn't Be'. 'The Chair That Wasn't There', you know?

Bill Burr

#2. The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop.

Cynthia Weil

#3. He sang one whole verse directly to her, then, in fidelity to the song, he sent his vision inward to where his purest music was always found, and he looked at no one at all as he sang to Eanna herself, a hymn to names and the naming of things.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#4. I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.

Tom Waits

#5. I don't need to edit names out of songs and I don't need to edit details out of my songs because I've always been able to be honest with my music. That's the one place where I'm never ever going to change how I do things.

Taylor Swift

#6. I'm writing songs about New York. A lot of them carry the names of neighborhoods in Long Island. Maspeth, Montauk. I'm getting into the idea of a F. Scott Fitzgerald-esque Long Island back when New York was ... New York.

Zach Condon

#7. I'd like to play with a period piece. Playing a girl next door in 2010 is so different from playing one in 1950, the way you talk, walk, dress, relationships. It's really fun studying all that.

Emilie De Ravin

#8. 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

#9. Friends?" He asked me offering his right hand.
"As long as you don't touch my pencils' box again,

Tionne Rogers

#10. "Art Imitates life," of course, is that phrase by Oscar Wilde. I called that song "Art Imitates Life" because Oh No was in the studio and he actually came up with that hook. When I was trying to figure out a name for the record, it just kind of made sense.

Talib Kweli

#11. Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her.

Emma Stone

#12. And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame, when he came, in the game, he made his own name

Kanye West

#13. I think they would like the songs better
if I left out the names, or changed
the pronouns.

David Levithan

#14. Each time he fought he fought to kill and the other bulls were not afraid of him because they came of good blood and were not afraid.

Ernest Hemingway,

#15. I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.

Anne Bronte

#16. I love writing songs where the name is the title.

Katy B

#17. 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

#18. I sold my soul to the devil in L.A. He said 'sign your name here on the dotted line and your songs they all will play.'

Aaron Lewis

#19. The world is a holographic universe, with every piece containing the whole.

Marianne Williamson

#20. The Treorchy Male Choir - the very name is a song! May I thank the Choir, past and present, for all the glorious music-making they have shared with us.

Glenda Jackson

#21. Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.

John Muir

#22. What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

Thomas Browne

#23. I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

Ian Williams

#24. Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#25. Listen carnales listen to the hymn of it, the lie of it, the prayer of it, the voices singing our names: listen it's our story, it's our song,

Luis Alberto Urrea

#26. Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

Taylor Swift

#27. Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song.

Rabindranath Tagore

#28. Never worry if you're excluded from the circle, sometimes it's full of squares.

Benny Bellamacina

#29. Quite so, although our brothers and sisters in the Seventh Order do not refer to the Dark. They regard themselves as guardians and practitioners of dangerous and arcane knowledge, much of which defies such mundane concepts as names and categories.

Anthony Ryan

#30. If the people are victorious against the government, the nation will be weak; if the government is victorious against the people, the military will have strength. [thus they] will have the means by which they may fight, and thus ascend to supremacy.

Shang Yang

#31. I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

Jasper Johns

#32. Pare down to the essence, but don't remove the poetry.

Leonard Koren

#33. The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.

Martin Heidegger

#34. Name ten songs you want to hear again before you die, get all of your friends together and scream them. Because right now all you have is time, but someday that time will run out. That's the only thing you can be absolutely certain about.

Paul Baribeau