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• I’ve just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.

  Beth Gibbons

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Heart, Song

• Every battalion has its marching songs.

  Patrick MacGill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Song

• I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I’m always painting and drawing as well, and it’s an ongoing creative assignment.

  P. J. Harvey

  Topics in Work

  Tags in World, Word, Song

• I try to tell a story musically in a song.

  Barry White

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Song, Try

• When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn’t work out that way if someone else records it.

  Barry Gibb

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Idea, Song

• It feels like the more I’m out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence – that’s what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.

  Gwen Stefani

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Need, Song, Sing, Front, Huge, People

• I don’t have a favorite song that I’ve written. But I do have a favorite song: ‘Always on My Mind,’ the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

  B.B. King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Song, Favorite

• The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I’ve felt, or something somebody’s told me. It all comes together.

  Tracy Chapman

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Music, Song

• I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

  Taylor Swift

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Song, Personal

• But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

  Taylor Swift

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Help, Song

• I think it’s good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

  Syd Barrett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Song

• I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

  George Thorogood

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Song

• It’s never easy to write a song. It’s the most difficult thing I do.

  Sting

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Song

• I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

  Steve Hackett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mind, Song

• I just play, and I’m always trying to write songs.

  Steve Forbert

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Play, Song

• Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

  Steve Earle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Song

• All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea.

  John Mayer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kind, Idea, Song

• A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Song

• There’s something inimical about the camera and song.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Song

• I’m about to sing the song for the future.

  Stephanie Mills

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Song