Song Quotes

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.

Every song is something that I've been through or an emotion I've felt - like falling in love or heartbreak.

But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

A song is the most intangible thing in the world.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.

I mean a song that's specifically for the girls. It's saying you know we talk about them night and day, we're constantly pondering on men and what they've done good and what they've done bad and all these things in our lives.

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece.

When you write a song, a song has longevity.

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.

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?