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Song Quotes

The feeling behind every song.

These song quotes emphasize sincerity as the key to a performance that actually reaches an audience, along with the idea that a song can capture a live moment as it happens. One entry recalls a song tied to an early anti-drug campaign, showing how songs can carry a specific message. Related picks continue in our Feel quotes.

When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.

Quotes by Agnetha Faltskog

It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.

Quotes by Agnes Obel

I really believe it's not bad to look back within music. I don't mean retro, but using your own memories to make a song because our memories are what make us who we are.

Quotes by Agnes Obel

With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting something. In many ways, I've said everything in the song. And either I can't go back to what it was because it's changing...

Quotes by Agnes Obel

Feel Quotes

When you're walking down the street or in the car just listening to the radio, and you're, like, 'Oh, that's my song.' You want to say, 'Hey Mom!' That never changes.

Quotes by Afrojack

Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.

Quotes by Afrojack

I want to make an album my grandma and my fans are going to like. I want to make my grandma understand a drop and make club fans understand a song.

Quotes by Afrojack

If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'

Quotes by Afrojack

My brothers each reacted differently to 'Blood Sandwich.' It's a very specific type of odd feeling when there's a song written about you. People react to it differently.

Quotes by Aesop Rock

Good Quotes

After much inner debate, I can safely proclaim that Mungo Jerry's 'In the Summertime' may, in fact, be the best song ever recorded.

Quotes by Aesop Rock

I know all my different formulas to get certain sounds. I've been doing this so long that I don't experiment anymore. Or let me rephrase: I've been doing this so long that I don't have to experiment as much. You...

Quotes by Adrian Younge

I love the song 'Picasso Baby,' and I think the performance art piece was brilliant. I love that fact that Jay Z is continuing to raise the bar on hip hop.

Quotes by Adrian Younge

Irish fathers still have certain responsibilities, and by the time my two daughters turned seven, they could swim, ride a bike, sing at least one part of a Woody Guthrie song, and recite all of W. B. Yeats's 'The Song...

Quotes by Adrian McKinty

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.

Quotes by Adrian Belew

Life Quotes

A song's lyrics can't be held culprit for the overall change in society.

Quotes by Adnan Sami

Music does not have colour or religion. If I listen to a song, I don't care about the colour, religion, or country of the singer. It doesn't matter, even if it is in another language, because I love the music.

Quotes by Adnan Sami

It's an enthralling experience to be in front of the mic and record a song.

Quotes by Aditi Rao Hydari

The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win...

Quotes by Adele

I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart.

Quotes by Adele

Like Quotes

I worked at Johnny Rockets. For one day. I had to quit because they said that anytime a particular song comes on the jukebox, all the servers have to stop and do this special sing-along and dance, and I just...

Quotes by Adam Scott

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these "Song" quotes cover?
These quotes look at songwriting and performance from different angles — singing from the heart, capturing a live moment in a song, naming a song after a drug-era slang term, and writing solo rather than as a group.
Is there a quote about singing sincerely?
Yes, one quote insists, "What I say is from my heart," adding, "You must be sincere," so that when a song is sung, "people are supposed to feel it." For more on genuine emotion, see the Feel quotes page.
Is there a quote about capturing a live moment in a song?
Yes — one quote calls it "always a live experience," meaning "anything that happens around you," and adds, "It's so easy to just put it to a song." For more on live, in-the-moment experiences, see the Life quotes page.
Is there a quote explaining the meaning behind a song title?
Yes, one quote explains the origin of the song 'Assassins Of Youth,' noting that "'Assassins of youths' is what they used to call drugs in the old days when they first started the anti-drug campaign," and describing it as "kind of an anti-drug record." For more themed reflections, see the Good quotes page.
Is there a quote about writing songs alone versus with a band?
Yes, one quote describes a solo songwriting process: "I've always written by myself," clarifying, "I've never been in a situation where the whole band sat in a room and wrote a song. I don't work that way." For more on personal style and preference, see the Like quotes page.

Another entry describes songwriting as a solitary process rather than a group effort, a reminder that creative habits vary widely. See also Life quotes and Good quotes.