Song Quotes

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.

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.

I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

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.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

I do get a bit of a sense, just from e-mails some people send me, just a little sense of how people in different countries seem to respond differently to certain lines in a song.

The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.

The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called 'True Friend'.

You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.

We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it's really - we're thanking the Lord and the Earth for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound kind of way.

I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.

You don't have to be a cheater to sing a cheatin' song, that's what I'm saying.

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska.

I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first.

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about.

That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.