Song Title Quotes

#1. I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.

Keith Urban

#2. I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.

Beck

#3. Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

Wayne Coyne

#4. 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

#5. I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called ... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of ... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down.

Emmy Rossum

#6. 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

#7. Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it.

Annette O'Toole

#8. Sienna's Pick for Best Pink Floyd Combined Song and Album Title Ever:
"Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict," Ummagumma

Sienna McQuillen

#9. 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

#10. Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight. I think all the songs on the record sort of go along with that.

Christopher Cross

#11. DDLJ is one of the few films that credits a person (Kirron Kher) for the 'title idea'. The title is part of the lyrics of a song from the film Chor Machaye Shor (1970).

Anupama Chopra

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

Katy B

#13. 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

#14. Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd heard 'Silver Machine' but Russell Senior, who was in Pulp, got me into them. They had a song called 'Master Of The Universe' and we nicked the title in 1985 for one of our songs.

Jarvis Cocker

#15. If my life was a song the title would probably be 'Clumsy', 'cause I'm clumsy.

Pia Toscano

#16. Songs remain. They last ... A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

Neil Gaiman

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

Patti Page

#18. Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.

Sammy Cahn

#19. 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

#20. One way in which 'Friends' did resemble 'Seinfeld' is that it really found its audience over the summer of 1995 in reruns. That's when the main title song, 'I'll Be There for You', by the Rembrandts, exploded, too.

Warren Littlefield

#21. Like our title song "Clap", I want to become a singer that receive the applause from all people.

L.Joe

#22. If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.

Naima Adedapo

#23. 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

#24. When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually it goes in many directions within each song. They get really convoluted sometimes.

Juliana Hatfield

#25. I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.

Olly Murs

#26. You bring life to my world you give me strength to go on
And face life even when it seems all hopes gone
Labeled my wife but you truly exceed the title
You my future my happiness my heart my idol

Fat Joe

#27. The answers were maddeningly absent - it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.

Jennifer Egan

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

Billy Corgan

#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. Ever since I was really really little, I was just singing all the time. Like one of my favorite games when I was little would be to just have one of my sisters pick a title, and I would impromptu create that song.

Kina Grannis

#31. If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

Stefano Langone

#32. The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.

Jon Landau