Song Quotes

But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

If my life were a song it'd be called 'Here I Am' because here I am - I mean, I'm Thia and I'm here to me me, I'm here to express myself musically which I find is the best way to express myself.

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.

Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

You know when I really realized like "wow" what a gift this is was when I sang at camp and a girl wrote me a letter and said the song that I sung kept her from committing suicide.

In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.'

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.

The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.

That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.

I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.

Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

When you have a kid and people go, 'What a beautiful child,' it's the same kind of reaction when you play a song that people recognize and love.

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.

A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.