When I’m up on stage, I don’t think about anything except the song I’m singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can’t think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow! – Louise Redknapp
I have a repertoire of songs that I’m proud of, that I’ve written for my own band. When I do a cover, something that somebody else has written, I think about it very carefully before I sing that song. I have to really get behind it and understand it and like it. And that’s how I pick roles. I don’t want to play just anything. – Hugh Dillon
When I’m making a song that’s very Grimes, it just feels very insular and it feels weird to have someone else do something on it. – Grimes
The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with. – Halldor Laxness
I’m sure there’s going to be some material from This Is Not Going To Be Pretty. I usually use that song to just introduce myself to the audience, although the patter in between the song is always different. – Harvey Fierstein
I do get a bit of a sense, just from e-mails some people send me, just a little sense of how people in different countries seem to respond differently to certain lines in a song. – Gotye
I don’t think radio is selling records like they used to. They’d hawk the song and hawk the artist and you’d get so excited, you’d stop your car and go into the nearest record store. – Herb Alpert
Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that’s one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where’s your place as a songwriter. – Halsey
Once you really get into a song, other than just listening to it, it forces you to go ‘oh, they did this. I never would have thought of doing that,’ when you deconstruct it. It’s something you really can’t do sometimes when you’re just listening to a song. You have to really get into it. – Greg Laswell
I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you’re recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song. – Grandmaster Flash
I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I’m trying to say and I’ll think about that for a couple of days until it’s all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it’ll just fall out. But the song’s kind of all ready there in my head. – Graham Russell
I do not wanna write a song like ‘Coathanger’ so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It’s not my idea of fun. – Graham Parker
The song that makes me the happiest when someone sings it is Cher’s ‘If I Could Turn Back Time.’ – Hannah Simone
I don’t like knowing what the next song is because that’s what I’d think about during the number we’re playing. – Grant-Lee Phillips
Collaboration is much like a birth. The song that springs forth resembles each one of us to a degree, but it’s the kind of thing that would never be born from just one of us sitting down with a guitar. – Grant-Lee Phillips
It’s not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work. – Hal David
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song. – Gloria Naylor
One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it’s an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism. – Henry Rollins
But I’m not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs. – Harvey Fierstein
I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music. – Grace Slick
Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn’t dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn’t buy those types of records. – Grandmaster Flash
The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can’t contrive a song. – Gene Clark
In blues music, there’s a lot of borrowing, so it’s often difficult to identify the originator of a song. – Henry Rollins
There’s a song called ‘All We’d Ever Need,’ which is actually the first song that the three of us wrote together on our first album, and when we wrote that song I didn’t have any real experience to pull from. – Hillary Scott
It’s always interesting – how do you actually convey thought through song? We’re used to the convention on stage. In film, we used to be used to it, and now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. You need to be fresh and really look at the material. – Hugh Jackman