Song Quotes

I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!

I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.

I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.

The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it.

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done.

The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal.

A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

Sometimes I will click on a random sequence of notes- not to actually use it in a song, but to see if I can find maybe a simple pattern that I can build off of.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes.

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

There are no rules to writing a song.

I've had this song in a drawer for a long time, maybe seven or eight years. Every time I'd do an album, I'd take it out and listen to it, and always liked what it had to say. Plus when Garth came in and sang on it, that made it really special.

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are some songwriters who can like me I have a problem writing chorus lyrics but I can write a song in a story like that.

Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

I have a song called 'Decisions' that features Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Common. It's about people who have made a decision to really stand by you as friends.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.