Quotes About Song

I should like my life to leave after it no other murmur than that of the watchman, a song to while away the waiting.

A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.

A song is a lot of things. But, first of all, a song is the voice of its time. Setting words to music gives them weight, makes then somehow easier to say, and it helps them to be remembered.

I feel like it's probably very out of character for Anthony to break into song. I feel like he might play the flute or something, like a really weird European cinema moment where it gets really odd and he serenades his love in music. You never know with Bridgerton.'

Weird Al is not gonna do a parody of your song if you're not doing it big.

'Welcome To New York' is one of those songs that, with just one single radio play, will make at least 10 New Yorkers move to Marfa, Texas.

'Welcome to Atlanta' was a song I wanted to do on my first album. The idea was for me and Outkast to do it, but I could never come up with a beat for us to do it. Outkast beats and my beats were very different.

It's very rare - and it does happen on occasion - where I'll take a piece of lyric and I'll just sit down and purposefully craft that melody around that lyric because I think the lyric is the wellspring for the song, without question.

'Going Back to Cali' is one of my favorite songs because of all the East Coast - West Coast rivalry.

I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to do was write a song in praise of Chicago, and that's what I did.

This is my story, this is my song, praising my Saviour all the day long.

I was praying one day and God literally gave me a song called 'Healing Hand of God.'

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.

I've always had fun with music, but I prefer to listen to it rather than sing.

We performed 'Road of Resistance' at O2 Academy Brixton in London for the first time in the fall of 2014. I still remember how the British audience sang this song with us although it was a world premiere. In other words, the song 'Road of Resistance' really propelled us to move forward.

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody. A lot of times I have, and the song wasn't that good, but I would get lost in that melody, and I'd want to do the song.

When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang.

'In the Pines' is a very old song dating back to slavery. Lead Belly made it popular.

It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.

'Mine' was interesting because it was about the way that someone made me feel so loved - so beautiful, so special, so accepted. I knew that it was deeper than just writing a song about that.

To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.

I heard 'More Than A Feeling' for the first time when somebody came running into my office in the engineering department and said, 'Your song's on the radio in the drafting department!'

There's this song called 'Brad Chester,' which is like the depths of my family. It comes from a very personal place.