Songs Quotes

My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

We all have, in my family, what we call the 'Vorderman bottom' - a sticky out, bigger-than-normal, signature, of the rear variety. It's been a family joke all our lives - even my lovely brother has one. I know the lines to all the good singalong big bum songs.

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

I have the most eclectic audience - I've got gay, I've got straight, black, white, rich, poor, young, old, in 45 countries. And they don't all come because I'm the Sinatra kid, though that's a big part of it. My biggest successes have come from pop songs that I write myself.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.

The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.

Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally.

Senorita was fun to sing, but I don't really have a favorite. When you write a bunch of songs, they're like your babies. You don't pick favorites.

Too many times you come across lyrics that sound like you've heard them before or you can't really relate to them. And I think that I write songs that sound fresh and sensual in kind of a layered, lush way. But I also think that they are real, and that's why I wanted to call the record 'Inside Out.'

It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.

These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.

I'm thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.

Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.

I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.'