3,653 Quotes About Song

A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to make everybody happy. It's a false thing. It's like a lullaby as opposed to a gun. People need to be slapped into reality and music just doesn't do that.

The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.

Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely' (like Radiohead); it's 'lonely lonely,' like the way it feels when you're being hugged by someone and it somehow makes you sadder.

Every eye sees its own special vision; every ear hears a most different song. In each man's troubled heart, an incision would reveal a unique, shameful wrong.

I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can't help but have a profound effect on your life.

Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

Because of acting I've gotten to travel and meet so many amazing people, and they inspire new songs.

No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.

I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.