I think sometimes you are born with a song.
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.
In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.
In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.
If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.
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.
I'm about to sing the song for the future.
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.
I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.
Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska.
I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.