Song Quotes

It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.

I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?

I just try to get inside the song and imagine what comes next.

Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year.

You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.

Sometimes you try a song and people don't respond, or you tell a story and you just hear crickets. But when you play thousands of shows, you start to refine stuff.

Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest.

When I'm picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced. There's nothing worse than watching an artist try and sell a song that isn't believable coming from them.

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

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'.

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.