As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.
Brad Paisley

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.
Brad Paisley

Silence is more musical than any song.
Christina Rossetti

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

Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.
Andrea Bocelli

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
Alanis Morissette

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.
Lenny Kravitz

That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.
Lenny Kravitz

If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It's so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself.
Lenny Kravitz

You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.
Justin Timberlake

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

Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.
William Christopher Handy

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.
Brian Eno

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
Brian Eno

I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
Brian Eno

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.
Sting

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.
Joni Mitchell

So I wanna see all of you making out during this song.
Joel Madden

I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.
Joel Madden

With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.
Noel Gallagher