Top Song Quotes
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Lou Holtz
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
Pope John Paul II
I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped.
Marty Robbins
I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.
Nik Kershaw
When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.
Ritchie Blackmore
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The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.
Jason Mraz 
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I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something.
Billy Eckstine
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I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.
Geddy Lee
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I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?
Jim Capaldi
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In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.
Petula Clark
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If I love a song I hope to find a way to get other people to love it too.
Susannah McCorkle
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We have been trying to play a lot of different kinds of music, and probably the next album will go back more towards the direction where you couldn't classify each song as a certain kind of music. This album you can.
Mike Gordon
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I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.
Dorothy Fields
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
Gary Cherone
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