Top song Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of song quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Adele
The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I’m writing about, and that’s why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, “Oh my God, this song is totally about me.”
- Adele
Collection: Song
Image of L. Tom Perry
Parents must bring light and truth into their homes by one family prayer, one scripture study session, one family home evening, one book read aloud, one song, and one family meal at a time. They know that the influence of righteous, conscientious, persistent, daily parenting is among the most powerful and sustaining forces for good in the world. The health of any society, the happiness of its people, their prosperity, and their peace all find common roots in the teaching of children in the home.
- L. Tom Perry
Collection: Song
Image of Kid Rock
I've just really been into melody and lyrics and songwriting. Writing a rap, to me, is easy. I could write a rap like that. But writing songs and melodies and s**t that's hopefully going to stick around for 30, 40 years is f**king hard...If you have good songs and you're talented, people will eventually come to your shows, people will buy your music.
- Kid Rock
Collection: Song
Image of Darius Rucker
One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song. No one's ever called me to do that.
- Darius Rucker
Collection: Song
Image of Kevin Brockmeier
A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh. There is a message outside and a message inside, and those messages are the same, like the pat and thud of two heartbeats, one within you, one surrounding. The message of the lullaby is that it’s okay to dim the eyes for a time, to lose sight of yourself as you sleep and as you grow: if you drift, it says, you’ll drift ashore: if you fall, you will fall into place.
- Kevin Brockmeier
Collection: Song
Image of Beth Kephart
Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song.
- Beth Kephart
Collection: Song
Image of Skrillex
An artist creates songs and timeless moments that are reflections that impact culture, and you can do that in any way - with guitars, ukelele, a computer. So, that will never die. It's always the artist behind the computer, not the computer.
- Skrillex
Collection: Song
Image of Skrillex
Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that day, it came up that extra 50 percent.
- Skrillex
Collection: Song
Image of Naomi Watts
The thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking.
- Naomi Watts
Collection: Song
Image of Matthew Perry
I'm glad that life isn't like a Christmas song, because if my friends and I were building a snowman and it suddenly came alive when we put a hat on it, I'd probably freak and stab it to death with an icicle.
- Matthew Perry
Collection: Song
Image of Matthew Perry
I have insanely dorky taste. Basically, if you're a woman, and you're under any kind of emotional duress, and you sing a song, I will listen to it forever. It's odd being a 37-year-old heterosexual male who owns nothing but Sarah McLachlan and Tori Amos. But I'll go against that at first and play something boring like James Taylor.
- Matthew Perry
Collection: Song
Image of Kathryn Stockett
The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of being rejected and put your manuscript—or painting, song, voice, dance moves, [insert passion here]—in the coffin that is your bedside drawer and close it for good. I guarantee you that it won’t take you anywhere. Or you could do what this writer did: Give in to your obsession instead.
- Kathryn Stockett
Collection: Song
Image of Harry Belafonte
In poor environment, I find great inspiration. Many of the men and women whom I admire as artists, the things they write, the songs they sing, the admission is filled with inspired moments to overcome oppression.
- Harry Belafonte
Collection: Song
Image of Judith Wright
Now that I know that each star has its path, each bird is finally feathered and grown in the unbroken shell, each tree in the seed, each song in the life laid down - is the night sky any less strange; should my glance less follow the flight; should the pen shake less in my hand.
- Judith Wright
Collection: Song
Image of Tinie Tempah
When I was about 14 I remember thinking when it came to proposing to my future girlfriend, I'd make a CD with all her favourite songs and a message that said, "Will you marry me?" Shows you what a romantic I was. No one listens to CDs any more. It's all about iTunes.
- Tinie Tempah
Collection: Song
Image of Philip Schaff
Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
- Philip Schaff
Collection: Song
Image of Joseph Bruchac
We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.
- Joseph Bruchac
Collection: Song
Image of Sonny Bono
People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records.
- Sonny Bono
Collection: Song
Image of Julia Spencer-Fleming
You know it’s a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.
- Julia Spencer-Fleming
Collection: Song
Image of Richard Thompson
I don't really know how writing process happens, how these songs are arrived at. One of the things I like about the writing process is, I don't necessarily know where it's going, and even if I think I know where it's going, it'll turn out different. I find that exciting and rewarding.
- Richard Thompson
Collection: Song
Image of Richard Thompson
I think it's absolutely possible to write a song and go somewhere where no one's been before, uncharted territory. In terms of content, I see limitations where there should be none. I know there are things I wouldn't write about, but that shouldn't be the case. You should be able to make a song out of anything, out of any situation.
- Richard Thompson
Collection: Song
Image of Richard Thompson
If you're up on a stage, naked and solo and singing songs to people, there's not much place to hide, so you may as well confess what you want to confess and say what you want to say, whatever that is. Some songs just turn out as being more about me, and some are more through the eyes of other people, or third-person descriptions of people.
- Richard Thompson
Collection: Song
Image of Richard Thompson
An audience will let you know if a song communicates. If you see them kind of falling asleep during the song, or if they clap at the end of a song, then they're telling you something about the song. But you can have a good song that doesn't communicate. Perhaps that isn't a song that you can sing to people; perhaps that's a song that you sing to yourself. And some songs are maybe for a small audience, and some songs are for a wide audience. But the audience will let you know pretty quickly.
- Richard Thompson
Collection: Song
Image of Richard Thompson
People want to be the first with the record, they want to be the first to know which songs are on the record, all that kind of stuff. So I like to just stall them a bit. Personally, I love the idea of an album that's completely new, that no one's heard any free downloads, any pre-record releases, all that kind of stuff, and nothing's been played on the radio. Totally virgin, you know, a sealed record. That's my ideal, but it's very hard to get anybody else to agree to do that.
- Richard Thompson
Collection: Song
Image of Richard Thompson
If you're up there performing a song for the first time, it's as if you're hearing it through their ears. You become acutely self-conscious of the song in performance, so that's a good thing before recording. But I like to have some surprises for the audience; I don't want the audience to know everything that's going to be on the record, because these days, with the Internet, people become avid collectors of pre-knowledge.
- Richard Thompson
Collection: Song
Image of Richard Thompson
I think there are shades of political songs; some are more subtle and can be more effective for being subtle, for being more metaphorical. I've written a lot of songs like that, where it's not really clear if it's a war song or a relationship song. The metaphor can be the most powerful thing of all, but sometimes you have to speak more clearly to more people, and I think this is one of those times.
- Richard Thompson
Collection: Song
Image of Matt Stone
We've had musical stuff in the show [South Park] forever. That's mostly because Trey's a big musical fan, and he's a great songwriter. He's been writing songs his whole life. So since the beginning, we've always put a lot of musical moments.
- Matt Stone
Collection: Song
Image of Matt Stone
Mormonism has this great cheesy aesthetic - when you watch their videos, it's almost as if they're about to flash a smile at the camera and burst into song. Mormon cheesiness is so close to musical cheesiness.
- Matt Stone
Collection: Song
Image of Amy Winehouse
A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs.
- Amy Winehouse
Collection: Song
Image of Clay Aiken
A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone.
- Clay Aiken
Collection: Song
Image of Graeme Simsion
I know this song!’ Rosie laughed. ‘If you didn’t, that’d be the final proof that you’re from Mars.
- Graeme Simsion
Collection: Song
Image of Daniel Quinn
But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us.
- Daniel Quinn
Collection: Song
Image of Nancy Holder
Passion now begins to wake and whom we desire, we will take then we'll cut them down to the quick love itself the cruelest trick. Moved we are by loves sweet song though it plays not for long we can blow on embers bright till passion outtakes the light.
- Nancy Holder
Collection: Song
Image of Bert Williams
People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most emphatically, 'No.' How do I know what I might be if I were a white man? I might be a sand-hog, burrowing away and losing my health for $8 a day. I might be a street-car conductor at $12 or $15 a week. There is many a white man less fortunate and less well equipped than I am. In fact, I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
- Bert Williams
Collection: Song
Image of Bjork
When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.
- Bjork
Collection: Song
Image of Catherine Fisher
Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know. -Songs of Sapphique
- Catherine Fisher
Collection: Song
Image of Catherine Fisher
He sang his last song. And the words of that have never been written down. But it was sweet and of great beauty, and those that heard it were changed utterly. Some say it was the song that moves the stars.
- Catherine Fisher
Collection: Song
Image of Catherine Fisher
I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars -Songs of Sapphique
- Catherine Fisher
Collection: Song
Image of Catherine Fisher
All my years to this moment All my roads to this wall. All my words to this silence All my pride to this fall. -Songs of Sapphique
- Catherine Fisher
Collection: Song
Image of Susanna Clarke
But when the fairy sang the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills shift and murmur; he felt cold mists dance. He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands. In the fairy’s song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself.
- Susanna Clarke
Collection: Song
Image of Stephen R. Lawhead
Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart
- Stephen R. Lawhead
Collection: Song
Image of David Steindl-Rast
Each one of us is called to become that great song that comes out of the silence, and the more we let ourselves down into that great silence the more we become capable of singing that great song.
- David Steindl-Rast
Collection: Song
Image of Edith Piaf
I always thought my days spent in darkness [as a child she had cataracts and was unable to see for nearly four years] gave me a very special sensitivity. Much later, when I really wanted to hear, really 'see' a song, I'd close my eyes, and when I wanted to bring it out of the very depths of myself, out of my guts, out of my belly, when the song had to come from far away, I'd close my eyes.
- Edith Piaf
Collection: Song
Image of Matt Bomer
I like to sing and leave songs on voicemail. It comes from the heart.
- Matt Bomer
Collection: Song
Image of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Life was not intended to be simply a round of work, no matter how interesting and important that work may be. A moment’s pause to watch the glory of a sunrise or a sunset is soul-satisfying, while a bird's song will set the steps to music all day long.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Collection: Song
Image of Dar Williams
There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.
- Dar Williams
Collection: Song
Image of Irving Berlin
You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.
- Irving Berlin
Collection: Song
Image of Irving Berlin
Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see Bluebirds Singing a song Nothing but bluebirds All day long
- Irving Berlin
Collection: Song
Image of Irving Berlin
A patriotic song is an emotion and you must not embarrass an audience with it, or they will hate your guts.
- Irving Berlin
Collection: Song
Image of Gary Paulsen
Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over. Reading isn't passive--I enter the story with the characters, breathe their air, feel their frustrations, scream at them to stop when they're about to do something stupid, cry with them, laugh with them. Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. A book is a friend. You can never have too many.
- Gary Paulsen
Collection: Song