Song Quotes

I remember seeing the song in some diners on the selection gadget that plays records at the table while you were eating. We were never told if the songs ever got on any charts.

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.

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

I never want to pick an easy song. I want to continue to challenge myself vocally.

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

I do not believe that people should steal music, but I think that fans need a better alternative, hence why I am such a fan of Apple, where you can simply buy a song for $0.99; it is very easy, it is a value-packed service... and this is a result of the shakeup... something has to happen in the music industry.

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.

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.