Quotes About Songs

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful. I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs.

When I first got into country, I was trying to do the traditional country thing, and I still have a heart for traditional country. But the songs I was writing just weren't falling into that category.

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!

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.

American folk songs were about tragedy, right? They were about suffering and tragedy, and a lot of my songs are about that, even though they were misunderstood.

I've often said this - that you can get through a tragedy, and... you trudge on, but the pain never really goes away. And when you sing the songs about things that have happened, the pain surfaces and... it brings it all back.

I don't see my singing for films as a transition from singing my own songs because I see it as part of the same picture.

I think when you translate songs, you lose the real essence and the meaning.

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

I was lost And sang my broken-down songs in the hell of the hour. Then in my heart moved an oar, And I was found by a breeze from a door in the sea of forms And was rowed to the cherry trees on the shore.

Like Confucianism, communism is a kind of secular religion. Like a religion, communism connects people through shared rituals and songs, offers explanations for everything and promises a paradise to come.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.

If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.

You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want to write to tell the truth.

My truth is relevant and my songs are relevant, but I have to recalibrate myself and speed up my vibrations so that I can communicate with the voice of this generation.

Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.

Then, my friend, let the songs be sung as Zandalari lamentations. He stood and started down the mountain. Let them be sung for a thousand generations and serenade us into eternity.

People have misconstrued the pessimism and anger in our songs," Mould protested. "We're really the opposite of all that; we're not callous, insensitive people. But we're frustrated by the fact that most people seem to end up that way—hopeless, defeated. We're afraid of ending up that way ourselves, and that fear comes out in our songs.

No one could explain why a punk would ever follow any mainstream rule about how many songs you could put on a single.

Critics used to say that ABBA were formulaic or that our songs were rubbish. We never had time for those comments, though. We were sincere and devoted to what we did.

People don't really need to question our sincerity when it comes to our songs.

Senorita was fun to sing, but I don't really have a favorite. When you write a bunch of songs, they're like your babies. You don't pick favorites.