Welcome to the world of musical inspiration! Good Song Quotes is your gateway to a treasure trove of lyrical wisdom and emotive melodies. Music has a unique power to touch our souls, evoke memories, and articulate feelings that words alone cannot express. Whether you’re seeking motivation, solace, or simply a moment of reflection, the timeless wisdom encapsulated in song lyrics has the ability to resonate deeply with people from all walks of life.
In this curated collection, we’ve gathered a selection of poignant and memorable quotes from some of the greatest songs across genres and eras. From the raw vulnerability of heartbreak ballads to the triumphant anthems of resilience, each quote offers a glimpse into the human experience in all its complexity. Whether you’re a music aficionado, a lyric enthusiast, or simply someone in search of inspiration, you’ll find something to stir your soul and ignite your imagination in the words of these songs. So, without further ado, delve into the melodic tapestry of emotions and experiences waiting for you below.
I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance. David Cook
When you start writing songs on your own, there’s no Bible, there’s no one around you, so you’re just writing, and you’re left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it’s a good song or an interesting concept. Jack Antonoff
I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song – with a good character, a good story in it – with all I’m gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too. Robert Hunter
I sing for the joy of music… when I go back home with the satisfaction that today I recorded a good song or the whole crowd was singing along with me when I performed on stage. Neeti Mohan
With good music, yes, we can bring people together because a good song will touch your soul no matter what and where it is coming from. Guru Randhawa
I feel like ‘Beware’ is a heartfelt song – it’s something that is definitely a story, something that I cultivated from personal stories, some from just other stories in just wanting to make a good song. Big Sean
I just like a good song, it doesn’t matter. I mean, I am into girl groups and stuff like that. I listen to anything. Brian Fallon
I’m competitive with anyone who writes a good song – I don’t care if it’s a band or solo artist or whoever. Chris Martin
Writing songs about having a nice time – ‘Oh I’m so happy on tour with my band’ – I’d find it really difficult to write a good song about it. Sigrid
I always like a good song: puts me in a good mood. Waris Ahluwalia
It’s hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like – It’s never been a factor in what I’ve done or what the band’s done. James Iha
Shakespeare’s work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines. Michelle Dockery
You don’t play around with a good song. You try to just say it right in the proper place, and if you get the music and voice in tune, you’ll be all right. That’s always worked for me. Glen Campbell
But I knew – in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don’t care if it was ‘Yellow Submarine’ or, you know, or ‘The Times They Are a-Changin’ or ‘Don’t Be Cruel’, you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it. Don McLean
My life has been many examples of shortsighted goals that I thought would fix things. You know, if there’s something broken inside me, if there’s a hole in there, I thought: If I could just write a good song someday, then I’d be OK. You know, if I could just be on stage in front of people I’d never seen before and be validated by them. Trent Reznor
I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me. Paul McCartney
I think the work process’ – composers do not get enough time to make a good song. That’s the one thing which needs to be changed. Amaal Mallik
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. Dennis Lloyd
Most people don’t really need to hear a six-minute guitar solo that modulates between five keys and time signatures. What they want is a good song. Rivers Cuomo
A good song has to have a great melody, and the lyrics have to touch my heart. Now, if it’s just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can’t make you feel good. Reba McEntire
When I get into the studio, it’s not about trying to get a good song, it’s about whatever comes naturally. Jessica Mauboy
I’m not good at talking, but I can write a good song and tell a story. Jorja Smith
My favorite over the years is probably ‘All I Have to Give.’ That’s probably my favorite. It’s one of the first songs that the five of us were featured on the lead, and I just think it has such a great sonic sound with all the melodies and harmonies. It has a little bit of a mixture of R&B and a pop sound. It’s just a really good feel-good song. Howie Dorough
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. Joni Mitchell
A good song never gets old. Bad Bunny
I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn’t been broken, but I don’t know of anyone whose heart hasn’t been broken. Lucinda Williams
As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It’s easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm. Lyle Lovett
A lot of commercial country does speak to people in some way. It’s more of a ear worm or a melody that’s really catchy. That’s something that you certainly want, but it’s only one piece of the criteria for a good song. Tyler Childers
I think a good guitar solo sounds so much better within the context of a good song. Gary Moore
I still believe in hope and that a good song will push itself. Hank Williams III
If it’s a good song, it doesn’t really matter if it’s trendy or not. It will hit. Tablo
When your hair is rising, that’s when you know it’s a good song – that’s happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It’s great to make those moments yourself. Jose Gonzalez
You kinda don’t know what’s going to make a good song. You’ve got to shoot around in the dark for a little while. Ne-Yo
I’ve been through almost every type of obsession as far as music genres go, so I usually say I just like a good song, but the songs that are the most universal that a person on the other side of the world knows and can relate to is a very powerful entity. Mark Salling
In my off-time, I do record. Once in a while, I’ll just go into the studio if there’s a really good song that I have in my head and want to do. I think, as artists, you’re constantly in creative motion. If I stopped writing songs, then that’s a part of me that would stop in my life, and I need constant motion. Britney Spears
There’s such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn’t necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve got a good song on your hands. Corey Taylor
I feel like ‘Work’ was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it’s obviously biographical. With ‘Bounce,’ I wanted to make sure people know there’s a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one. Iggy Azalea
I love Lady Gaga, Rihanna – all the pop girls like Katy Perry. I think Miley Cyrus is very talented, too. Apart from the visuals, which you may like or not like, but her music is quite good, actually. ‘Wrecking Ball’ is quite a good song, and she sang it really nicely. Giorgio Moroder
To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism that communicates a real feeling to someone else. You have to be real. Or you have to be a really good storyteller. Daryl Hall
I think I was 15 the first time I wrote a good song. Andy Grammer
A good song gathers the years in. It’s why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it’s been written. Bruce Springsteen
A good song should give you a lot of images; you should be able to make your own little movie in your head to a good song. Tom Petty
A good song is a good song. Glen Campbell
‘Free Fallin’ is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn’t become this huge anthem. But I’m grateful that people like it. Tom Petty
I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can’t sit down and play this and get the song over, I don’t take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar. Tom Petty
I’m a composer, and therefore I know when I’ve written a good tune. When you’ve written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song. Andrew Lloyd Webber
There’s an easy way to tell if you have a good song. You get hit in the head with a message, and you get hit in the feet with a rhythm. You’re beaten up with music. It’s a beautiful thing when that happens. John Waite
When you know you have a good song, when you’re onstage, even if it’s just a weird, basic energy, you know your song is good. Duff McKagan
I think a good song is a good song is a good song. Tim Finn
Good songs are what a good band is all about. When you have a good song that stands up to the test of the time, that is the most important thing. Joey Kramer
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. Charli XCX
You can really walk around a song and completely, if it’s a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny Cash with Rick Rubin illustrated that perfectly. Chris Cornell
When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that’s what my music is about. Matisyahu
If I get a song – a good song – I just sing it the way I hear it in my head. If anybody else wanted to add whistles and bells and chains rattling, that’s fine. Just not too much. I actually just do things as straight ahead as possible. Glen Campbell
Success isn’t dependent on the market place, because I can’t control that. It’s about completing a good song. Gilbert O’Sullivan
Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it’s mean. When it’s a good song everybody thinks it’s about them. And when it’s mean, nobody thinks it’s about them. Sara Bareilles
What’s really cool about ‘This is Me’ is that our friends loved the song. Older punk rock fans don’t know ‘The Greatest Showman,’ haven’t seen the movie. And they hear that song and they’re like, ‘This just sounds like an awesome New Found Glory song. This is a really good song.’ Chad Gilbert
In any creative process, the hardest thing is putting the pen to paper. You walk around the room staring at a blank piece like, ‘What if I don’t make a good song? What if I don’t make a good book? What if I don’t make a good painting?’ You just gotta put your pen to the paper and not judge your work. Nav
I felt my music wasn’t aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song. Glen Campbell
Whoever hired me might’ve just heard ‘Refugee.’ Well, I’m not the secret to ‘Refugee.’ The secret to ‘Refugee’ is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on ‘Refugee,’ then I wind up playing on another really good song. Benmont Tench
Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I’ve known many bands who have covered that. It’s just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn’t want anyone to know I had it. Joe Elliott
It doesn’t take much for anyone to pick up anything I play – it’s quite simple. I go for a good song. And if you hear a good song, you don’t dissect it – you just listen, and every bit seems right. Angus Young
If a song really moves me, if I think it’s a good song, I can do it. B. J. Thomas
You can tell if something feels special. But there are so many moving parts involved in making the song a hit. The radio has to deliver, the management has to deliver in terms of booking the right promotions… just being a good song isn’t enough. Justin Tranter
If you’re thinking the road ahead is a little shorter than the one behind you, you’re thinking about trying to write a good song and hoping to make a decent record of it. Mark Knopfler
I hear a good song and I start thinking, ‘Oh shoot. You know there’s a story that can be told to this,’ and whatnot. Uzodinma Iweala
Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can’t rescue a dog of a song. Jarvis Cocker
‘Something Good’ is a feel-good song. A reminder that you’re dope and have something wonderful to offer life and yourself and the world. Estelle
Sometimes when I get home after a long day, I’ll turn on music – I love Latin, disco, and pop – and do my own workout, even if it’s a short one. Know a good song to work out to? ‘I Will Survive.’ Summer Glau
If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not? Amy Jackson
I had the lyric ‘Chip Don’t Go’ and a few words, and my wife came in and said that it sounded like a good song. I thought I’d finish writing it up and posting it to YouTube. I didn’t realize it was going to take off like it did. Mat Kearney
In music, if somebody makes a good song, you want to be in that category and make the good songs too. It may not even be a competition thing, it’s just a thing to keep your skills up type of thing. Fabolous
If you can take a piece of life and put it in a song, it’s going to be a good song – especially if it’s from the heart. Jon Pardi
A good song’s a good song, and well known songs take on meaning in people’s lives. Ty Segall
I feel like if it’s a good song on a guitar, it’s a good song no matter what. Astrid S
I know when I’ve written a good song when I can imagine the video. If I can’t imagine the video straight away, I’m not gonna put it on my album. Charli XCX
It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song. Bob Seger
I have definitely written a happy song about someone and then we ended up splitting up, but you have to put those kind of things to the back of your mind and tell yourself that it’s a good song and it works on the album. Joe Jonas
Right from day one, you know when you’ve written a good song. Joan Armatrading
I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don’t think I’ve written any great songs. Paul Simon
If you’ve got a good song, it’s easy to play. But you can’t make a bad song sound good no matter who you have to play on it. Donald Dunn
I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know. George Thorogood
If you listen to the radio, and something beats you into surrender, like ‘REO Speedwagon’, and you really hate them, there’s ‘You Can Go Your Own Way’ in your ear all day, and that’s what makes a good song. Boy George
I just want to make that my life: recording music and trying to write a good song every day. Adam Granduciel
Maybe I’m a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say ‘This is a good song’ as somebody who is in the music business. Kenny G
That’s what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick. Mick Ralphs
Me and Tory Lanez got good chemistry together. We could make a song so easy, but we always like to figure out what we’re really doing. We can make a good song, but it gotta make sense. A Boogie wit da Hoodie
If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, ‘That is out there.’ Jazmine Sullivan
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 knew ‘Ojuelegba’ was a good song, but I didn’t expect it to blow up the way that it did. WizKid
There’s a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there’s also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song. Norah Jones
I’m not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it’s a good song, what does it matter? Bryan Adams
I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band. Waylon Jennings
For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I’m very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar. Marc Almond
Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song. T-Pain
I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think. Pete Seeger
I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn’t need to be too many lines – of course, I do love a good story. Cass McCombs
One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it’s being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there’s a good song. Manfred Mann
Music’s always been really cathartic. It’s the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song. Ville Valo
When I do music I don’t think about urban music, pop or country, I just think about a good song. Mike Will Made It
