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I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable. — Nicholas Thorburn

I watch movies and hang with my family, go shopping, love to cuddle with my dog, Happy, & write songs with my guitar! — Megan Lee

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

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized. — Suzanne Vega

Some of us hover when we weep for the other who was
dying since the day they were born. — Lisa Loeb

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car. — Merle Haggard

I'd like to keep doing film and TV, and I definitely can appreciate a good theme song. If it's memorable, that's a great thing. — James Iha

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song. — Dave Matthews Band

I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with. — Christina Milian

To all those women
strong enough to be heroes; fair enough to be ladies. This song is for you. — Robert Fanney

My time will come, that is: after the finish of the recurring song cycles — Gustav Mahler

I think you just have to have some rapport with the song. — Eric Bachmann

I can't predict what songs will do to the collective consciousness. — Jason Mraz

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale. — Frank McCourt

If you're callin' about my heart, it's still yours. — Blake Shelton

Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories. — Billy Graham

The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band. — Matt Berninger

When you write a song, a song has longevity. — Smokey Robinson

However long the song is was how long it took us to write it. — Geezer Butler

That happens quite a lot in Hot Chip - you can let go of something that was originally essential to the creation of a song. — Alexis Taylor

But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done. — Henry Rollins

Every word that I say, every song that I sing, and literally every move that I make [ in Chicaho musical] has much purpose. — Eddie George

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Come a little closer, love the way you look tonight
My eyes are the only thing I don't wanna take off of you — Blake Shelton

I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs. — Jon Foreman

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life — George R R Martin

No driving, no sleeping. Live it up like it's the weekend, when the DJ play the right song gonna drink, gonna party all night long — Wiz Khalifa

I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value. — Vince Gill

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful. — Don McLean

Dream Song of Thunders: Sometimes I go about pitying Myself, While I am carried by the wind Across the sky. — Frances Densmore

When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music. — Daniel Johnston

The more spastic song structure I have, the more I hate it afterwards. — Gylve Nagell

Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue. — David Bowie

My first boyfriend that I ever had, actually sang a song that he wrote for me on-stage to ask me out. That was pretty romantic. — Aubrey Plaza

In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.' — Phil Collins

Every song may be someone's personal implement of torture. — Francine Prose

In the room, the cats eat mad spaghetti
Talking of Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
--from "The Dream Song of J. Alfred Kerowack. — Richard Farina

Maybe the key to finding the perfect song is simply rewriting the lyrics. — Kandi Steiner

I mean, m-m-m-my you're like pelican fly — Nicki Minaj

But the book! The siren song of the book! — Ellen Douglas

Nd now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive — Keith Urban

I don't believe in false memories, like I don't believe in false songs. — John Lydon

I write songs to handle emotional pain. I guess what they say is true: with every heartache comes a great song. I also pray and have great friends. — Matt Sorum

Ohhh, I'm in luv, I'm in luv
I'm in luv, I'm in luv wit chu
And there ain't nothin nobody can say cuz
You're the one for me baby — Da Brat

Her imagination was such that she could hear the song of the bird when it was still but a yolk in an egg. — Dean Koontz

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes. — Neil Innes

Thank God I'm not too cool for a seatbelt. — Kanye West

Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her. — Khaled Hosseini

I want to take it easy, take it slow
To catch a fire and let it go
I wanna give myself to you
So we can live like lovers do — Heather Nova

I am not a human being but the song of the soul and dance of the spirit. — Debasish Mridha

She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.
But there's a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise. — Victoria Aveyard

I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton. — Jamie Lynn Spears

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

My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.' — Mitch Leigh

I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe. — Paul McCartney

A rhyme doesn't make a song. — Dorothy Fields

When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long. — Euripides

I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around the edges of good taste. — Tom Rush

There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination. — Shane MacGowan

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song. — Ariel Pink

Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. — Mother Teresa

I have yet to write that one song that defines my career. — Sheryl Crow

Christmas may not bring a single thing; still, it gives me a song to sing. — Charles Dickens

I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there. — David Friedman

A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby! — Walter Raleigh

I saw you dancing out the ocean
Running fast along the sand
A spirit born of earth and water
Fire flying from your hands — Elton John

It is not enough to have a song on your lips.
You must also have a song in your heart. — Fanny Crosby

My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable ... so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song. — Kristian Bush

You're not gonna start writing 'Hardy loves Miracle' all over your notebooks, are you? Sing her a song and post it on YouTube? — M. Leighton

No one who likes a song lacks congeniality ... — Dorothy Salisbury Davis

To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing. — Rabindranath Tagore

All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea. — John Mayer

I'll hear a song I love and suddenly I'm isolated from everything around me just for a nanosecond. That's a moment between a moment. — Charlie Sheen

There is redemption in every song. — Brian Fallon

If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it. — Conor Oberst

The judges say, make it your own, so I just remixed a song if I felt like the piece needed it — Blake Lewis

I wrote a thirty-second song that I couldn't finish for a year. — John Flansburgh

Love Songs Now: Fewer broken hearts, more sexual misery. — Mason Cooley

I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs. — Stephen Sondheim

To a certain extent, yes, we do. But there's - but there's a very limited menu. There's only about sort of 20 songs that you hear on rotation. — Nick Lowe

Sing songs that none have sung — Paramahansa Yogananda

Wolves together stand howling soft and loud at light, singing family songs. — Sue Thoele

There's no fear of future in the song of life, just the ever-joyful present moment. — Orson Scott Card

This album [Stroll] and all my songs that break barriers are more reflective of my personality. — SonReal

my heart, sometimes singing in the afternoon, the most haunting song of solitude — John J. Geddes

A place like the meadow in the song I sang to Rue as she died. Where Peeta's child could be safe. — Suzanne Collins

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song. — Edmund Clarence Stedman

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage. — Khalil Gibran

My friend, it was but a song of love out of a poet's heart, sung by every man to every woman. — Kahlil Gibran

I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore. — Liz Phair

Every song is a possibility. — Leslie Hauser

I always feel like when I've listened to a great song I know it, 'cuz it's the only time I'll ever get goosebumps or something like that. — Ella Henderson

I tend to play covers when I'm gearing up for creating new song. Singing other people's songs is a way that I get inspired. — Scout Niblett

I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like. — Lana Del Rey

Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men. — Khalil Gibran

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them. — Roger McGuinn

I don't much like 'Wonderwall,' but the effect that song has on people, I can't deny it. — Noel Gallagher

A song is a poem set to music. — Tom T. Hall

Is that what I've been doing all these years? cutting my path though life? All the blood spilled and lives taken, just verses in a song? — Anthony Ryan

If life is a song and we are born with the lyrics, then it is up to us to create the music that fits! — Michelle Cooke