Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! Votes: 4
Bob MarleyI don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really. Votes: 4
Nick CaveDo not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. Votes: 4
Pope John Paul IITo reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again. Votes: 4
Ricky NelsonGet up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight. Votes: 4
Bob MarleyI'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun. Votes: 4
Billy JoelWords make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. Votes: 4
Yip HarburgI wrote a song called 'Green Day' because I was smoking a lot of dope. Votes: 3
Billie Joe ArmstrongFor hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowI thought we were gonna get "Smooth Operator." That song was big in the '90s.
Ruqaiyyah Waris MaqsoodLabour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong.
Frederick William FaberIf only the bird with the loveliest song sang, the forest would be a lonely place.
John James AudubonThe first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.
Rabindranath TagoreYou must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.
Alexis De VeauxDay-thoughts feed nightly dreams; And sorrow tracketh wrong, As echo follows song.
Harriet MartineauThe reality is not exactly what the song started out to be, but it's not a bad song.
Robert James WallerFather, may my song today be a sweet sound in Your ears-even if in Yours alone. Amen.
Aiden Wilson TozerThere is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song
Masanobu FukuokaI'm glad I got to introduce myself to America by doing a Britney [Spears] song, haha!
Melanie MartinezIf you're single, then I'm single?" What's that supposed to be? Lyrics to a pop song?
Sophie KinsellaBillie Jean was a negative dance song, and that was one of the best dance songs ever.
Theophilus LondonYou know it's a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.
Julia Spencer-FlemingWords are what make the song. I get a personal vision about what the lyrics are about.
Julie AndrewsThe song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.
Khalil GibranI swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.
Leonard CohenWhen your target is too far away from you, continue walking singing the song you like.
Mehmet Murat ildanThe singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song
Rabindranath TagoreDust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!
Omar KhayyamPoetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.
Carl SandburgThe easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her.
David CrosbyIf you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.
Garth HudsonEach time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.
Hans Christian AndersenI drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.
Jodi PicoultHoly, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.
Reginald HeberWhen you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.
Sherman AlexieI no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song,
Sufjan StevensI'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.
Tracy ChapmanWhenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.
Alison KraussThe song of your soul is longing to be sung. Let your own essence express itself freely.
Brandon BaysI think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song .
Charles HartshorneI could have guessed it all along, cuz now some drama queen is gonna write a song for me
Emilie AutumnThe architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.
Emily HainesAmerica is a song that sounds the best when we all sing together - at least for a while.
Michael JosephsonI don't much like 'Wonderwall,' but the effect that song has on people, I can't deny it.
Noel GallagherSometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.
Paul McCartneyI guess there's a song for absolutely everything that could possibly happen to a person.
Sinead O'ConnorSing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music... Rise up and touch the stars
Susan Polis SchutzThe music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.
Lotte LehmannBlending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging.
Maynard James KeenanIt's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.
Rob SheffieldSong is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.
William WatsonHe was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.
Arthur GoldenI'm a song-and-dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.
Betty GrableWe got a new song called 'Ashes in Your Mouth,' and it is NOT about a joint falling apart.
Dave MustaineI'm a perfectionist... So to me, if I had my way, a song is never perfect, never finished.
Dia FramptonThe only song I can sing is Lady in Red so that must tell you how great it must have been.
Diane KrugerWhen I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be.
Gloria EstefanI usually tell somebody if a song's for them. I don't always tell them if it's about them.
Guy GarveyWhen I am excited about a song I want to release it rather than wait to build up an album.
Jackson HarrisHe has a song in his heart for me. I hope it is not "Shut Uppa You Face, Whatsa Matta You.
Louise RennisonI didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.
Mary J. BligeA song fluttered down in the form of a dove, And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!
Paul Laurence DunbarI don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.
Sheryl CrowIn the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.
Steven TylerCicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.
TheocritusI feel like I always have to have a song on my album that people can use in their weddings.
Brooke FraserI always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.
Cameron CroweYouâre the missing piece I need The song inside of me I need to find you I gotta find you
Demi LovatoReally, the F word in a song - it should be the least of the worries of parents these days.
Enrique IglesiasThat's the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song
Harlan CobenWhen you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.
Joe SatrianiIt's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home.
Mark LowryIn the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.
Muriel BarberyA bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.
Quincy JonesAnd hear the pleasant cockoo, loud and long - The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.
W. H. DaviesOne day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song!
Woody GuthrieJesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.
Andrew DominikThe sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song â not one. Not two.
Anthony de MelloI've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
Bob DylanA good song can make you smile, or it can make you dance or laugh or remind you of a moment.
Charli XCXWriting 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.
Dar WilliamsI have used that song ["50ft Queenie"] and I'm a big PJ Harvey fan. I think she's fantastic.
Dylan MoranThis song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.
George HarrisonThere's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
George JonesWhen the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song.
Hoodie AllenYou can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.
Irving BerlinYou definitely get more of a band feel to a song if you've been playing a song live a bunch.
John Britt DanielMan is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.
Joseph JoubertJohn could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.
Paul McCartneyWhen we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.
Richard SchmidWhat you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
Scott PuteskyWhen you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist
Tim McGrawWords are the instruments you play to the song of your ideas, you're just playing covers.
Ze FrankThe judges say, make it your own, so I just remixed a song if I felt like the piece needed it
Blake LewisI recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.
Burt BacharachDoing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.
Chip EstenIf I didn't make a single song in two months, I'm slippin'. You can't just party every night.
G-EazyMusically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.
Joni MitchellAdversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.
Karen WhiteHe alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.
Khalil GibranI guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math.
Mick BarrMorrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
Nancy SinatraSometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions.
Nick CaveThen the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
Rachel CarsonNormally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song.
St. LuciaI'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.
The EdgeA song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
Thomas AquinasWhen I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
T-PainIt costs $2,500 to purchase a song and I know from experience that I like to score with songs.
Allan MoyleI'll put on a song that I really like and do bicep curls with two kilo weights the whole song.
Beyonce KnowlesWe think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music
Carlos Ruiz ZafonIt doesn't take a year to sing a song. Takes a year for people to figure out how to market it.
Chrisette MicheleI am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.
Christina MilianBroadway is not just the song and the shows; it's the individual performers and the community.
Darren Criss