3,653 Quotes About Song

If you thought Stairway to Heaven was a long song, dear god you should listen to it played on a lute.

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

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

I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn't what they wanted. So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people "Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work." And of course I'm very pleased if people like all of them, but I don't want them to feel deceived at any point.

At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly.

There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.

You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.

Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.

Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.