Song Quotes

Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?

I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.

I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

For the live shows, I'm just getting my song together. I go back to my hotel room and I just listen to my song over and over again, figure out how to make it different and put my little Pia spin on it.

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.

It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.

I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God.

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

Well, as a songwriter, it's really dangerous to use the word love in a song. It's a word that has been used in songs so many millions of times before, and it's the most popular topic to ever write about.

Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?

Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.

'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to me, I'm in the middle of that same verse!

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

You're a song written by the hands of God.

I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that for a couple of days until it's all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it'll just fall out. But the song's kind of all ready there in my head.

I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.

I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.