Quotes About Song

There's songs like 'Africa' that just have kind of become part of pop culture.

To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.

I hear a really good pop song every now and then. 'ROAR' by Katy Perry, I love that! 'Poker Face'... Oh! What a song! And 'Rolling in the Deep'... Oh!

For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop song.

I don't know if I could write a pop song without at least a little touch of bite in it, and it's usually not a bite that most people would want to sing.

When we first started out we only had five or six songs we could play live, so if we ever got an encore, we used to do our cover of City High's 'What Would You Do?' We'd be playing it and people's mouths would be moving singing all the words, but they'd be thinking, Where is this song from? It's such a brilliant pop song but the lyrics are so dark.

I love a good, poppy chorus.

A popular number from the movie Pedda Pedda' has become an instant hit and the audience is loving it.

I love movie musicals because I think there is an amount of emotional honesty that's needed to portray someone who feels so deeply that all they can do is break into song.

It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive feels absurd.

That was the coolest thing about 'Baby Got Back.' The establishment didn't embrace the song, which is what kept me from being the next pop guy to fizzle out and get laughed at, get dissed on TV. That helped save me. The fact that MTV banned the record made the record, in a weird way.

I really like it when movies take a song and use it to counterpoint a scene.

There wasn't really a song or artist that made me want to be a singer, I think I was always a fan of country music.

Whether or not I considered myself a country singer, when I sang a country song, I was as good as anybody.

I believe in 'Hard Livin'.' The song has a lot of potential. I sang it on the road for about a year before I put it on an album. The crowds really seemed to like it.

When I first heard my song on the radio, I started crying. My baby was out there, and it all became very real.

When I was maybe three years old, I was obsessed with this song 'Leader of the Band' by Dan Fogelberg. My mom took me to the mall and bought me a 45 of it. We would listen to that song all the time.

I had never danced all my life until I shot for my first song in 'Chirutha.'

It won't be fair on my part to name one song that brought me fame, but 'Suit Suit' from 'Hindi Medium' is close to my heart, and it quite turned tables for me.

Just equating my price to one hit song is taking credit away from my lifetime's work.

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always get people to sing with me.

I think Frank Ocean is a talented artist; I think he's created material that made me know his name, that impressed me, with things he said on a song like 'Novacane.'

Love is one of my favorite things to talk about. Every song will be about losing it or finding it, seeing a guy and not knowing if you want to tell him how you feel yet. I guess I'm a hopeless romantic.

I talked to Carolyn Dawn Johnson about doing a duet with her a few times, and we just haven't gotten it done.