Quotes About Songs

When I'm on stage, the songs that we've chosen to play from the back catalog are things that still resonate with me, and matter to me. And the songs that I couldn't be a part of, we don't play anymore.

All my first albums, they're full of heart and emotion, and the songs are wonderful, but they wouldn't have been the takes I would have chosen.

I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.

I really like the European carols, and I like that captivating sound that they have that isn't usually in Christmas songs.

I love how music and chants were used in the Civil Rights movement to help people keep marching. How songs were both a balm and a call to action.

I did a show in Amsterdam where I was supposed to do only two songs but I ended up doing 13 because they kept playing songs that I love and they played 'Viva Forever' and I started crowd surfing to it. It was so funny to do because it's such a depressing song.

I think we've got three that we have to play, and that would be 'Surrender,' 'Dream Police' and 'I Want You to Want Me.'

All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination. And this one is Teddy's.

When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me

I've had several working-man songs that I like.

At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly."

"Evil men have no songs." How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.

Things just evolve. I sort of have no control over what happens with the songs. Sometimes I'm afraid I might wake up one morning with an entire record of polka songs.

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

I am connected to the market and now I am singing songs that my mother loves as well, it's amazing!

The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.

There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.

The history of a people are found in its songs.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

The type of music that I love to sing would have to be more bluesy and jazzy and more soul-like because I love to belt when it comes to singing, so I guess bigger songs are what I lean more towards.

I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.