Song Quotes

With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform parallel to it. Rock Band puts you inside the guts of a song.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song.

I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives.

The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't.

We have been trying to play a lot of different kinds of music, and probably the next album will go back more towards the direction where you couldn't classify each song as a certain kind of music. This album you can.

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow.

You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.

I'd stop in the middle of a gun fight and sing a song.

One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist.

The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.

Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.

I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's my interpretation. But I would never 'say' that because somebody else might interpret the song in another way.

If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.

But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.

One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.

If I love a song I hope to find a way to get other people to love it too.