Top 1200 Siren Song Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in.

A song like 'Kilimanjaro,' which is such a fun, entertaining track... Singing the song was an amazing experience.

To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny video guy. But in Korea I'm doing one of the biggest concerts; it's not a dance music concert. I'm playing with the band, so I change my every song to a rock song.

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

When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.

The first song I wrote was called 'You,' and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist.

I still believe that the voice as well as the body express a song together - that's my philosophy of performing a song.

Surely we have a responsibility to finally listen to - and honor - the siren calls of our souls, which have been silenced by our egos throughout our lives? How else can we connect with our essence, the source of our calling?

'Girl In A Country Song' was uptempo, rockin', and such a bold song.

I always feel like every song is the last song.

A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.

I started playing bass in my friend's band for some reason. It was just something I did because, well, he asked me if I wanted to play bass and he played me this song - Nirvana's version of "Molly's Lips", the Vaselines song - and he said, "You can do this! This is not hard!" and it's like a two-note song. I learned that and then I thought I was a genius.

Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song

In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that rivals that.

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

[Blow Ya Mind] it's a feel good song, a relaxed song... people are just digging it.

The reality is not exactly what the song started out to be, but it's not a bad song.

The song 'Laughing Down Crying' is not a typical Daryl song.

And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

Lots of people say it's the song. For me, it's not always the song - there's something bigger: the spirit of an artist.

I see pictures in my mind and become the character in the song as I'm writing. It's kind of method songwriting, where you're the actor in the song.

You are hearing this song, and you're 16, and it's a song about love, or a girl. And then maybe there's a girl at school that you like. So you're going to be thinking about that girl. That song is sort of about that girl. The songwriter doesn't know that girl, obviously. He wrote it for something else. But there's the specific meaning with the universal again.

Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it's a good song.

For me, it's always just about playing the song and recording it and giving it what it needs as a song.

If you hear a song and all you want to do is open the window and drive to the beach it's a good song for the summer.

I'll put on a song that I really like and do bicep curls with two kilo weights the whole song.

The original version of 'Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang' was made to a Boz Scaggs song; I can't remember the name of the song.

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

What song have you played 10,000 times? It's probably not something basic. It's probably a song that validates your experience on Earth.

God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.

You definitely get more of a band feel to a song if you've been playing a song live a bunch.

It varies from song to song, but melody was always easy for me.

Music has changed. You can just throw songs out on iTunes song by song; you don't have to do a whole album.

I loved that song ["Don't Tell Me"], but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

Make every song is your best song to date.

Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song.

Heart of my heart, the world is young; Love lies hidden in every rose! Every song that the skylark sung Once, we thought, must come to a close: Now we know the spirit of song, Song that is merged in the chant of the whole, Hand in hand as we wander along, What should we doubt of the years that roll?

I think this song, 'Ioniq,' is the best song for commercial music.

I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.

The song [The White Trash Song] was not a put down of [ my country cousins ], but a celebration. I wrote that early on, as a teenager.

When you hear the first five seconds to a song and you've pretty much heard the whole song, that's kind of a bummer.

I don't sing a song unless I feel it. The song don't tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe in what I'm doing.

I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.

If there is going to be visuals for a song, I want them to be equally as good or better than the song.

The Eurovision Song Contest is by definition apolitical - unless your song criticises Russia, of course.

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

I decided to make a CD that I would enjoy listening to. So I would finish a song and sit there, and I would say, 'What song, of all the songs I know, would I like to work on now? What song would make me happy?' And that's how I picked the songs.

One song I do is 'The First Cut is the Deepest.' I try to remind people I wrote that song, not Rod Stewart.

I always try to write the best song I can in the moment, and those songs are often going to end up on Death Cab for Cutie records. I don't set out to write a solo song or write a band song. I just write, and where that songs ends up is kind of TBD.

Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.

Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

If I do a song with a chorus and a verse, it takes me about 25 minutes. If I do a song with two verses or stretch out the song, it takes me about 30 to 35 minutes.

Sometimes an unexpected chord change can be the difference between a good song and a great song.

I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements.

So if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song.

'Feel Special' is the song that we all cherish, and we thought the song's lyrics are words that everyone needed to hear.

I think maybe the vehicle for me was 'Sam Cooke's Greatest Hits.' It has a song called, 'Touch the Hem of His Garment.' Do you know that song? I kind of got obsessed with that song and started exploring and getting more of his old recordings with the Soul Stirrers and really getting into that super, super deeply.