Top 90 Songs With Good Quotes

#1. A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that a lot. For whatever reason. And it's a beautiful thing, actually. It seems to me like it's a beautiful way to live in the world and to relate to things, with an awareness of temporality.

Phil Elvrum

Songs With Good Quotes #24027
#2. Very talented people make some very bad songs so that people with a fourth grade reading level can sing along. Sure, corporate worship is good- but for me, I get very bored in Church trying to worship.

Reese Roper

Songs With Good Quotes #41641
#3. If you're writing songs by yourself, who's going to tell you if it's good or not? But if you're writing songs with somebody else, you get that immediate feedback.

Glenn Frey

Songs With Good Quotes #45801
#4. The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.

Colin Hay

Songs With Good Quotes #141231
#5. The best tunes are songs with a face. You recognize them. You know them. It's like a person. They have a face that's outstanding. Other songs don't have a face. You just hear them, that's all. The really good ones are few and far between.

Cindy Walker

Songs With Good Quotes #168387
#6. My memory is not so good so my most memorable show is the last one I played. Songs are written with intention but they only emerge in the moment.

Jason Mraz

Songs With Good Quotes #172961
#7. Traditionally, with a DJ set, you just go hear DJ that has a good reputation and let the DJ take you somewhere. It was up to the DJ what he wanted to play. Typically in dance music, people didn't know most of the songs a DJ played.

A-Trak

Songs With Good Quotes #173920
#8. Although I don't come from a musical background, I was given piano lessons along with my sisters, but I wasn't what you would call a good student. I tended to write songs rather than do scales.

Vonda Shepard

Songs With Good Quotes #186086
#9. I never want to be too mean with my songs, but with 'I Hope It Rains' it was definitely somewhere in the middle with being sassy but also a little class in there as well. It was a good blend for me and who I want to be perceived as an artist.

Jana Kramer

Songs With Good Quotes #191355
#10. Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!

Erica Jong

Songs With Good Quotes #212374
#11. On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.

Feist

Songs With Good Quotes #223557
#12. I sing to my wife; it helps me. She was my muse. I've written so many songs about her, to her, with references to her, and still do. She's a big part of my life. We were together for 33 years. It actually does me good - she's with me all that time in that way.

Ian McLagan

Songs With Good Quotes #245006
#13. When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself.

Jose Gonzalez

Songs With Good Quotes #261067
#14. A guy said to me, 'You're so lucky. You have people like Ray Charles, Barbra Streisand and The Beatles doing your songs.' I figured out, though, the harder I work the luckier I get. The secret of anything is to surround yourself with good people if you want a good product.

Buck Owens

Songs With Good Quotes #269882
#15. I would go to jail with only boys. Just to prove I was as tough as you. And when I get out for good behavior, I'll be writing love songs. Silly banging knee songs.

Sara Quin

Songs With Good Quotes #289481
#16. If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.

Elton John

Songs With Good Quotes #315724
#17. The situation is not good with the record companies. It's just not working out, so I don't plan to record until it's straightened out. In the meantime I'm happy doing my movies and writing the music for the theme songs, whether I sing them or not.

Irene Cara

Songs With Good Quotes #340502
#18. Abraham had eight sons
not one. All eight sons bring something to the table. Abraham loved all of his sons. He was a good father who made sure all his sons were literate, of good character and shared a common ideology with their father, Abraham. Abraham did good. Where did we go wrong?
pg 54

Michael Ben Zehabe

Songs With Good Quotes #348065
#19. This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.

Christopher Owens

Songs With Good Quotes #415008
#20. I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough.

Lucinda Williams

Songs With Good Quotes #460134
#21. To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

Reba McEntire

Songs With Good Quotes #479034
#22. I'm kind of a purist and I actually just want to be a good player, with that said though ... I probably should get a little more involved in that as that's what people are doing and making great songs out of their computer so it's kind of like, at what point does purist become arrogance?

The Rocket Summer

Songs With Good Quotes #481282
#23. Later that evening, he sat in the bar, pint in one hand, pipe in the other, with good food beneath his belt and listened to the natural harmony of the Welsh fishermen singing their songs of Wales and the sea

Barbara Anderson

Songs With Good Quotes #593714
#24. A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.

Lauren Mayberry

Songs With Good Quotes #605711
#25. I think there's thousands of good songs in the world - the songs that we can all sing along to, songs that are just so catchy they end up being in your head. But I think a great song is something that emotionally engages with you and connects with you.

Ella Henderson

Songs With Good Quotes #609221
#26. We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.

James Elroy Flecker

Songs With Good Quotes #645382
#27. The thing for me though, is that songs are good depending on the memories I have with them.

George Ezra

Songs With Good Quotes #655376
#28. When it came to slaughtering sacred cows with such crude yet perfect musical precision, there was no one better than Frank. I wonder what songs he's teaching the angels right now? Good luck God! You've got your hands full this time.

Terry Gilliam

Songs With Good Quotes #655988
#29. I won't mistake you for problems with me. I won't let my moods ruin this you'll see. I won't take everything good and move it away. I won't be left dancing along to songs from the past.

Sara Quin

Songs With Good Quotes #683411
#30. I did a really fun orange nail polish with my friend Deborah Lippmann. All of her nail polishes are named after songs so we called this one "Lara's Theme" which is really cute. It's a bright orange which is really good for summer or cheering yourself up in winter.

Lara Stone

Songs With Good Quotes #701391
#31. I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.

Shane Filan

Songs With Good Quotes #727011
#32. I've done two albums for Concord Records; one was with Al Jarreau and it did very well for us. The second album was called 'Songs And Stories,' and it had good songs and good performances, but I promised them I would do an album that was more jazz-oriented.

George Benson

Songs With Good Quotes #729226
#33. 'Fast Life' is just about going out with your friends and having a good time - I think it's one of those songs that people can relate with and like.

Joe Jonas

Songs With Good Quotes #743970
#34. One of the most encouraging things is to see that so many of these young musicians and worship leaders are really concerned with doing a good job representing the truth of Jesus in their songs, and not just concerned with creative and musical progression.

Matt Redman

Songs With Good Quotes #751787
#35. It's very important to have a good song - one where you can strip away all the production and just play it on guitar or at the piano. It has to hold its own. That's why I've put videos online with acoustic versions of my songs, so you can hear them in their original form.

Lights

Songs With Good Quotes #756858
#36. I think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye's doing what he's doing with the Auto-Tune is actually creative because he just writes good melodies. He just writes good songs. He's just gifted.

Will Ferrell

Songs With Good Quotes #792626
#37. Shortly before she died Janis Joplin gave me the Gibson Hummingbird she recorded "Me and Bobbby McGee" on ... Janis was a good guitar player, for her purposes .. she just wanted to play along with her songs, and she had a real pure and nice style for that ...

Sam Andrew

Songs With Good Quotes #813017
#38. I win and succeed only 'cause I fail so much. I fail all the time. I wrote 70 songs just to have 12 good ones. For the video I shot 60 hours of footage. 60 hours! To come up with an 8 minute video. So really I only win 'cause I fail.

Jared Leto

Songs With Good Quotes #835956
#39. Music being "good or bad" is a flawed idea. Artists make what they want to make and we either connect with it or we don't. Just because we relate to some songs more than others doesn't make the others less valid, we just don't understand them. In fact, we aren't meant to, and that's all right.

Jacob Bannon

Songs With Good Quotes #896680
#40. What I would like my legacy to be is that of a person who took good care of her family and sang some songs that made a difference in some way. I hope I'll be remembered as somebody who was always down to earth and who handled her career and other people with honesty, integrity and class.

Martina Mcbride

Songs With Good Quotes #907006
#41. A song should stand on its own and on what a singer does with it. It shouldn't need a lot of extra help to be good.

Oliver

Songs With Good Quotes #984490
#42. Can you dance?" she asked before she could stop herself.
"I can," he said, affronted. "I'm really good with the slow songs.

Jana Oliver

Songs With Good Quotes #1000297
#43. I think I write very good songs. But I don't know if anybody could record my songs with as much fervor. They sound good sung by me, and they especially sound good with my band.

Art Alexakis

Songs With Good Quotes #1000408
#44. Sometimes I don't go into the studio for quite a while because I haven't found enough good songs. They have to have a certain caliber and connect with me because I'm going to be playing them for the rest of my life. I start off with a circle of friends whose songs I love anyway.

Bonnie Raitt

Songs With Good Quotes #1032180
#45. I actually had a bunch of songs that I worked on with Jamey Jasta from Hatebreed, but they were too heavy for me because my voice sounds good when I sing clean. It sounds good dirty too, but when I hear my voice sing really clean, that's a special sound.

Sebastian Bach

Songs With Good Quotes #1048494
#46. I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

Al Yankovic

Songs With Good Quotes #1080057
#47. And I'm trying so hard, with all my heart and mind, to make your life as good as you've made mine ...

Relient K

Songs With Good Quotes #1127710
#48. I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.

Mavis Staples

Songs With Good Quotes #1131517
#49. We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.

Travis Barker

Songs With Good Quotes #1213599
#50. In the moments when I feel like being truly happy is an impossible puzzle, one I'm not meant to figure out, if you have a best friend you can laugh with and a few good songs you're more than halfway there.

Emery Lord

Songs With Good Quotes #1236531
#51. I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

Zac Efron

Songs With Good Quotes #1247501
#52. It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it

Miley Cyrus

Songs With Good Quotes #1306422
#53. I went to Brazil in 2010 and pretty much did songs about that trip. I was there just to hang out, chill with the people, and feel the vibe. It was great - tons of great women, great skin, good beaches. Can't complain; the food is great.

Theophilus London

Songs With Good Quotes #1307015
#54. Start with your heart, and only good can follow!

Ocean

Songs With Good Quotes #1317104
#55. I knew there was something special between us, knew it as surely as a lyric that belonged in a song. But as with all good songs, I needed time to figure out the melody and chords.

Cari Quinn

Songs With Good Quotes #1326768
#56. I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits - and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!

Al Yankovic

Songs With Good Quotes #1328413
#57. I always thought I wrote good bridges. I was a bit more impressed with the bridges I wrote than maybe the songs I wrote.

Rick Nielsen

Songs With Good Quotes #1357611
#58. I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's making all the right moves. She's got a good head on her shoulders. She's surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she's living and standing by that.

Dolly Parton

Songs With Good Quotes #1366595
#59. Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

Marianne Faithfull

Songs With Good Quotes #1367464
#60. And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility and I think that's okay. I don't care about the past, I'm a musician with ambition.

Robert Plant

Songs With Good Quotes #1373023
#61. It's good fun, making a solo album, because there's perhaps songs that wouldn't get used for the Stones or any other kind of outfit that I'm working with. It's just nice to be the boss.

Ronnie Wood

Songs With Good Quotes #1382357
#62. You can argue with a philosopher, but you can't argue with a good song. And I think I've got a few good songs.

Cat Stevens

Songs With Good Quotes #1389179
#63. My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock ... whatever you want to call it is OK with me.

Kate Voegele

Songs With Good Quotes #1414690
#64. I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.

Victoria Justice

Songs With Good Quotes #1450768
#65. That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

Mick Ralphs

Songs With Good Quotes #1503449
#66. I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.

Paul McCartney

Songs With Good Quotes #1507671
#67. I don't spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself - and if other people like it, that's great.

Ben Gibbard

Songs With Good Quotes #1517886
#68. I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you ... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.

Eddie Vedder

Songs With Good Quotes #1558065
#69. I really got into psych because everything has a really good groove to it and it's nicely spaced out, but ultimately they are just cool pop songs with a little something else that makes them special and unique. They are interesting and have another dimension to them besides a three chord change.

Mike Romano

Songs With Good Quotes #1580937
#70. Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the social conditions under which Schubert had to work.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Songs With Good Quotes #1590294
#71. It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Joan Baez

Songs With Good Quotes #1592365
#72. I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place.

Neil Diamond

Songs With Good Quotes #1596657
#73. You can't outdo 'Street Songs' and I didn't even try. [It] had that special magic that comes with timing and good vibrations and you can't even try to capture that exactly again.

Rick James

Songs With Good Quotes #1608304
#74. There wasn't a lot of R&B cats doing songs at 120 beats per minute before 'Closer,' which I take full credit and responsibility for. That's all good, but it was an experiment. You experiment with something, if it goes good, cool, but you never forget where you come from and R&B is where I come from.

Ne-Yo

Songs With Good Quotes #1643234
#75. I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.

Joan Jett

Songs With Good Quotes #1646993
#76. The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.

Rodney Atkins

Songs With Good Quotes #1668635
#77. Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?"
They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.

Sherwood Smith

Songs With Good Quotes #1682477
#78. I'm inspired to write songs by all kinds of things. Good sex with a good man, that might inspire a song. Bad sex - that might inspire a different kind of song.

Lady Saw

Songs With Good Quotes #1709503
#79. Every time I went into the studio, I always sung with my heart. If it came out as strong, as good, as powerful as that to my fans, then I was satisfied. I never slacked. I always did all the songs the same way as the first.

Percy Sledge

Songs With Good Quotes #1710762
#80. My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.

Jay Kay

Songs With Good Quotes #1719476
#81. For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.

Marc Almond

Songs With Good Quotes #1721085
#82. Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me "Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?" And I say "Good God, I hope not!

Steven Morrissey

Songs With Good Quotes #1730976
#83. The male gay community seems to be very into female singers. I think it could be the songs we sing. They're more open with their feelings. And they have good taste!

Liza Minnelli

Songs With Good Quotes #1755966
#84. Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.

Caleb Landry Jones

Songs With Good Quotes #1757206
#85. Bards sing songs and act girly. Thus, they're kind of useless in a fight, but make good support characters. Kind of half wizard half healer with a bit of skills master and warrior thrown in. If you want to be a super famous rock star in the Middle Ages, but suck at fighting, play a Bard.

David Dostaler

Songs With Good Quotes #1779321
#86. I'm a very lucky man. I get to do the thing I want most in life, write songs and sing them for people, and ride bikes. I love my family. I love my home. I get to work with people I've admired my whole life. It's a pretty good life.

Lyle Lovett

Songs With Good Quotes #1804052
#87. Some hit songs are really stupid, and who knows why they're hits. But a lot of hit songs are really good. I agree with Jim [Lauderdale] in that I think the really good ones are songs that when you hear it [sic] ... there's just something about it that touches your heart, and you don't know why.

Jorma Kaukonen

Songs With Good Quotes #1812816
#88. I'd rather let the song live and, as I get older, I'm less absorbed with the clothing. The older I get, I just wanna write good songs.

Brandon Flowers

Songs With Good Quotes #1832050
#89. When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

Tony Visconti

Songs With Good Quotes #1849018
#90. A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs.

Tom Morello

Songs With Good Quotes #1872253

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