Quotes about Songs

"It's a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?"
-Jakob Dylan

"The song is ended / But the melody lingers on."
-Irving Berlin

"Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies."
-Irving Berlin

"In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques."
-Art Linkletter

"All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"We always said the goal was to make these songs famous - not our faces."
-Jon Foreman

"It's a tricky place, because these songs are our life and death. To have anything come between the people who buy the record and the songs themselves is really hard to hear as a musician."
-Jon Foreman

"Maybe my parents were concerned that radio and TV would bring in IRA propaganda music and rebel songs to our house."
-Tim Reilly

"As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they weren't, I would have gotten rid of them."
-Johnny Ramone

"Songs and Stories from Moby Dick."
-Laurie Anderson

"I have no problems playing (Men at Work) songs, ... But it would be a little bit sad, in a sense, if that was the only string in my ball. I play them because they're hit songs. I play them because I like the songs. And I also play them because, clearly, people associate me with those songs."
-Colin Hay

"An exciting part of our existence right now is [the prospect of] getting to go out and play from 28 new songs. Normally you go out on the road and have 14 new songs to integrate into your set list, and now we have twice that, which really makes the whole thing different and more unpredictable and wild."
-Anthony Kiedis

"If your friends are telling you to listen to these songs because they heard it from someone else, that's exactly how things catch on."
-Terry Pettijohn Jr

"What's exciting is the ability to reach a large audience with this music, and have people who may be casual fans of The Beach Boys to realize that there's not just some fun songs there, but a major and important artist at work."
-David Leaf

"With sound there's a certain amount of space. It's very easy to fill that sound with noises and sounds, but it's very difficult to keep it empty and still have exciting songs."
-Tomo Milicevic

"When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me."
-Christina G. Rossetti

"We think that you shouldn't just play a bunch of songs, you should put on a show."
-Ryan Shupe

"A big section of our audience is young and female. Housewives like our love songs, but then again, everyone likes to dream about love."
-Darren Hayes

"It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you."
-Chris Cornell

"We're gonna play you some songs we know and some we don't. But we're pretty good at it. We have no set list, no agenda and no fear."
-Guy Clark

"Sometimes she's scared of how I'm going to put our relationships in songs. Relationships are like free range for lyrics, and that terrifies her."
-Johnny Garcia

"I sat at his knee while 'Doc' played early New Orleans jazz and blues, Tin Pan Alley songs, and vaudevillian novelty numbers."
-John Parker

"It's going to be better songs."
-Ira Dean

"People love to think that you're an idiot, so I try to keep my mouth shut and act dumb. That's usually when I'm writing my songs- usually about the egomaniacs who are busy looking down at this dolt they have working for them."
-Travis Gerke

"Unless you see banners, posters, music and loudspeakers blaring songs and election slogans there is no way one can have the enthusiasm."
-Arun Das

"The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears."
-Alfred De Musset

"I think it's the best thing I ever recorded. It's on no label, so it's an entirely independent project. We recorded a live album and DVD, the DVD has the entire testimony, the entire night on it. We couldn't put that whole thing on the CD so basically it's the songs and a little bit of talking."
-Kirk Talley

"They wrote a very interesting musical score to it. It's not just old standard Western songs at all. It runs the gamut of musical types."
-Ron Lambert