Song Quotes

We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell, can still our mighty song.

And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.

To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences.

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Each song has its own secret that's different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be teased out, whereas other times it might come fast. There are no laws about songwriting or producing. It depends on what you're doing, not just who you're doing.

I remember seeing the song in some diners on the selection gadget that plays records at the table while you were eating. We were never told if the songs ever got on any charts.

One of them would definitely be the Nelson Mandela gig, when I played the tribute song for him. He was up and dancing, and he really enjoyed it. It was a really lovely occasion.

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

I never want to pick an easy song. I want to continue to challenge myself vocally.

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

I do not believe that people should steal music, but I think that fans need a better alternative, hence why I am such a fan of Apple, where you can simply buy a song for $0.99; it is very easy, it is a value-packed service... and this is a result of the shakeup... something has to happen in the music industry.

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

The only one I really like is a song called Saccharine.

I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.

I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

One of them would definitely be the Nelson Mandela gig, when I played the tribute song for him. He was up and dancing, and he really enjoyed it. It was a really lovely occasion.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

I do get a bit of a sense, just from e-mails some people send me, just a little sense of how people in different countries seem to respond differently to certain lines in a song.