Song Quotes - page 86

It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music - my taste in chord progressions and melodies. (Zooey Deschanel)
I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song. View quote
Zooey Deschanel
Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars. View quote
Zooey Deschanel
I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment when decadence is healthy, 'Poses' encapsulates that feeling. It's a kind of song and a kind of album that I'll never be able to repeat. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages. View quote
Jason Mraz
I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song. View quote
Jason Mraz
It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, that I transform - and these realizations I put into song. That's what I choose to put in my backpack and carry with me around the world. View quote
Jason Mraz
Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy. View quote
Jason Mraz
The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song. (Jason Mraz)
The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song. View quote
Nick Cave
My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that. View quote
Nick Cave
There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe. View quote
Nick Cave
I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes. View quote
Nick Cave
I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things. View quote
Nick Cave
What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood. View quote
Nick Cave
Every song that I play I wrote by myself. View quote
Noel Gallagher
Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another. View quote
Noel Gallagher
When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song. View quote
Noel Gallagher
I don't much like 'Wonderwall,' but the effect that song has on people, I can't deny it. (Noel Gallagher)
I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter. View quote
Taylor Momsen
Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles. View quote
Taylor Momsen
There is no song to your singing. View quote
Carl Sandburg
The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat - Understand Me. I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think. View quote
Willie Maxwell (rapper)