Quotes About Song

'Wanna Be That Song' has everything I want to say about love and about what I'm trying to be. I wanna be that part of your life, that song that means so much to you, the one that takes you back to that special place... the song that makes you laugh, the song that makes you cry when you need to cry, that makes you dance when you need to dance.

Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else doing it, but stylistically her and I are so incredibly different that I was fascinated to hear what she'd do with it, and I completely loved it. It just felt like the different expression of a song that, to me, was so stamped in one way.

If I get a song - a good song - I just sing it the way I hear it in my head. If anybody else wanted to add whistles and bells and chains rattling, that's fine. Just not too much. I actually just do things as straight ahead as possible.

I feel like 'Beware' is a heartfelt song - it's something that is definitely a story, something that I cultivated from personal stories, some from just other stories in just wanting to make a good song.

I would say when you're dealing with live musicians and musicality, the warmth of a live instrument brings a certain feel to a song that is really hard, sometimes, to get from synthesized instruments.

There's this one song called 'Final Warning' that I'm really excited about because I love the contrast of my vocal sounding very soothing and my harsh lyrics.

I'm listing to music all the time. I have favorite artists. Kid Rock loves the Civil Wars' song 'Barton Hollow.' We both said that's our favorite country song of the year. That knocks me out.

Let us have no more suicide from weariness, which comes like a final sacrifice crowning all those that have gone before. Better one last laugh à la Cravan, or one last song à la Ravachol.

reggae and the jamaican economy. I/we from trench town knew this all along that's why we put the messages in a song. It took the financial sector of jamaica so many years to let the world know about- the reggae dollars fate. Now the boj announced the truth, let us wait and see how this benefits the youths. I am ras cardo from trench town who created reggae there in 1962.

you can say whatever you want, but I will tell you this truth- there is a reggae song which speaks the prophesies of every condition we see today. my reggae creation is like the biblical book of psalms and proverbs. its all true. its divinely spiritual.

using drumming. Once found, the shaman would sing a magic song to hold the caribou in that place until the hunters could intercept them.

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

It's so great when there's a catchy song that's fun and easy to listen to, but there's also a real artist behind it.

'Kudi Maga' is a pub-style song, but the lyrics are really nice and the beats are catchy.

Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.

I don't like it when bands don't want to play that one song everybody wants to hear. I think that's cheating everybody, and I think it's selfish of an artist to do that.

In college, this cheerleader put me on to this artist called Kimbra, and that was huge to me because that's the first time I saw somebody looping. She sampled her voice and made a song with that, and that just blew my mind.

Even a song like 'Give Love,' in my head, there's a question as I'm writing it, going, 'Is this cheesy? Is it too on the nose to say 'give love?''

Those chords on 'You Won't Change Me' are huge.

A lot of my friends are doctors, and the difference between me and them is there's no musical emergencies to pull me away from dinner. 'I need the chords for that song right now!' No, it can wait.

Taking up the choreography for an awards night is completely different from choreographing a song for a film.

I've always been a fan of Five For Fighting's song 'Superman.' It's like an anthem, and I love it.

I think my favorite song from another artist would have to be 'Superstition' by Stevie Wonder.

I personally get into the supervision of every song, from the lyrics to the artiste, I oversee everything before it goes out to the world.