Quotes About Song

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.

I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.

Dance music cannot compete with a really great rock n' roll song. There ain't no DJ that's gonna play something that can take 'Mr Brightside' or 'Don't Look Back In Anger.'

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing - On his darkest day he believes in spring.

The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings.

When the songs of your heart start singing, you should listen...for its harmony will bring you happiness and the melody is the voice of your true spirit.

History is the siren song of the soul.

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

It's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home.

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

When I met Letterman, he told me he thought 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' was the greatest Christmas song he ever heard, and he wanted me to be on his show to sing it.

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

Hope is a song in a weary throat.

I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud." (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece)

A scrip on my back, and a staff in my hand, I march on in haste through an enemy's land; The road may be rough, but it cannot be long; And I'll smooth it with hope, and I'll cheer it with song.

If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all.

He has a song in his heart for me. I hope it is not "Shut Uppa You Face, Whatsa Matta You.

Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.

My hope is that no matter your mood there is [on a Joyride albom] a song on there that speaks to you.

I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain songs.

Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?

What song would lull a snake into submission? "John Mayer?""Over my dead body.""Could be, Tim, could be.

You're starting to sound like one of those songs that DJ's play when they wanna clear out the dancefloor.