Songs Quotes

I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.

I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.

Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight. I think all the songs on the record sort of go along with that.

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

I'm enjoying writing songs that are more stripped back.

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

I have been blessed with some incredible compositions to record and perform and all of my songs have had the ability to grow as I and those who have supported this career of mine for these 50 years have.

When I wrote those two songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom.

Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.

I got tired of playing other people's songs.

It's amazing what some people read into songs.

Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.

I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.

I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.

I don't really like to explain my songs.

I don't write songs.

To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.

My songs are just little letters to me.

There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues.

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.

My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.