Song Quotes - Page 5

• Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

  Julian Casablancas

  Fall, Wake Up, Flow

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• You can't outdo 'Street Songs' and I didn’t even try. [It] had that special magic that comes with timing and good vibrations and you can't even try to capture that exactly again.

  Rick James

  Magic, Special, Trying

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Mar 16, 2015

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• If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.

  Bryn Terfel

  Use, Produce, Instant

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• I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

  Robert Wyatt

  Writing, Doe, Singers

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• I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different.

  Angel Haze

  Diferentes

  "Zero Past A Hundred: Angel Haze Interviewed". Interview with Laurie Tuffrey, thequietus.com. November 9, 2012.

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• When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

  Kimbra

  Years, People, Albums

  "Kimbra - And Gotye - Rock SNL" by Allison P. Davis, www.elle.com. April 16, 2012.

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• I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You're using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.

  Florence Welch

  Thinking, Singing, Body

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• It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical theater… it is quite legitimate to use the form of the popular song and gradually fill it out with new musical content.

  Kurt Weill

  Musical, Use, Growing

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• Para mí, las canciones evangélicas hablan de la mansión en el cielo y están bañadas en la sangre carmesí de Cristo, canciones llenas de palabras bíblicas que mucha gente ya no entiende.

  Larry Norman

  Biblical, Blood, Sky

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• No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?'

  Skrillex

  Dancing, Worry, Dubstep

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Lo que no me gusta oír en la música es algo que no haya sido pensado: que un sonido esté ahí al azar. Quiero asegurarme de que todos y cada uno de los ruiditos que hay en mi canción están ahí porque se supone que tienen que estar.

  Zedd

  Sound, Want, Littles

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• No puedo sentarme y hacer una canción en un día. Solo es posible si te centras en la música y no en el sonido.

  Zedd

  Focus, Sound, Down And

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• Nunca siento la necesidad de hacer una canción que venda 5 millones de copias; ese no es el motivo por el que hago música. Está muy bien que ocurra, como con "Clarity", pero mi objetivo es hacer siempre una canción mejor que la anterior.

  Zedd

  Track, Goal, Needs

  "Zedd says Hayley Williams 'fits so well' on 'stay the night'" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. September 10, 2013.

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• Me gusta mucho trabajar con artistas únicos y desconocidos, porque suelen aportar algo nuevo a una canción.

  Zedd

  Artist, Unique

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• The two biggest hits (by Machito)... were about that enduring Cuban song topic-food: 'Sopa de pichn' [pigeon soup] and 'Paella'. If you think that all songs about food are double entendres for sex... Well, maybe all songs about food can be double entendres, but in many periods of Cuban history, for many people, food has been harder to get, and the subject of more fantasies, than sex.

  Ned Sublette

  Sexo, Pensar, Dos

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• I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Self, Sick, Want

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• Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Years, Wonderful, Mines

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• A lot of my albums that Ive done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. Its before you mess with it too much - you can take away all the spontaneity and the emotion of something by trying to make it sound perfect.

  Liz Callaway

  Perfect, Trying, Sound

  "InDepth InterView: Liz Callaway & BOOM!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 14, 2011.

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• The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

  Kristin Hersh

  Escribir

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• If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

  Daryl Hall

  Care, Ifs, I Care

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• Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

  Daryl Hall

  Feel Good, Want, Feels

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• Me encanta todo lo relacionado con Queen: sus canciones son narraciones épicas.

  Nina Arianda

  Queens, Epic, Storytelling

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• Es difícil creer la vida que ha cobrado "Someone Like You". Es la prueba de que la gente tiene hambre de grandes canciones y está abierta a diferentes interpretaciones de las canciones que le gustan.

  David Nail

  Believe, Taken, People

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• I decided I was just going to sing the type of songs I gravitated toward and inspired me and moved me. I was going to let the people whose job it was to decide what places to put it, and let them do that. I'll stick to the singing part.

  David Nail

  Jobs, People, Singing

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• I naively thought I had to go door to door, find somebody who could record me singing some songs. I didn't know Music Row, I didn't know anything! So after six or seven months, I went back home and went to college.

  David Nail

  Home, College, Doors

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