Songs Quotes

Songs Quote of the day

Am I the only one who measures time using songs? “Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long!

Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.

I probably spent more time listening to albums than writing songs. But I think that gave me all the tricks in terms of wordplay, from how I pronounced my words to the actual delivery.

Songs of worship arise from a life of worship.

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

Worship songs can't just be rooted in culture - they won't be deep enough. They have to be rooted in scripture.

Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

In some of the best worship songs we bring our praises to God - yet at the same time also end up preaching to ourselves.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

If you're writing songs by yourself, who's going to tell you if it's good or not? But if you're writing songs with somebody else, you get that immediate feedback.

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.

Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta tell the truth, and it can't be misinterpreted.

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.

I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls, or anything.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.

If I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be ‘Sing your prayers.’

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.

I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old.

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

[My mother] is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17 - she started to believe in me, musically.

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it...It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.

Words belong to those who use them only till someone else steals them back.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. 'Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs are serious.' And I said, 'Right.'

For me, singing was always about the lyrics. I'm hopeless at singing songs that don't have a core.