“There are always meaningful songs for somebody. People are doing their courting, people are finding their wives, people are making babies, people are washing their dishes, people are getting through the day, with songs that we may find insignificant. But their significance is affirmed by others. There’s always someone affirming the significance of a song by taking a woman into his arms or by getting through the night. That’s what dignifies the song. Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song.” PeopleHumansMayNightSongWifeBabyArmsActivityFindingsMeaningfulSignificanceDishesInsignificantWashingHuman ActivityAffirmingMeaningful Song Author:Leonard Cohen
“Rush like a river from the highest mountain, drink from the fountain and stop your counting. What kind of wine does he have in his tavern, oh so enchanted and sing like a mad man. Mad with the love of a wife for her husband, child or mother, sister or brother... sing for the Most High, sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song, God plays his flute and we all dance along.” MenKindChildrenDoePlayMotherSongWifeBrotherDrinkHusbandMountainEternalHighestRiversMadWineNotesFountainCountingEnchantedFlutesMad MenTaverns Author:Trevor Hall
“My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.” WorldWritingKidsSongWifeMy WifeFavouriteWriting SongsFavourite ThingsWorlds ApartMy Wife And Kids Author:Richard Hawley
“Take the Long Way Home is a song that I wrote that's on two levels - on one level I'm talking about not wanting to go home to the wife, 'take the long way home' because she treats you like part of the furniture. But there's a deeper level to the song, too. I really believe we all want to find our true home, find that place in us where we feel at home, and to me, home is in the heart. When we’re in touch with our heart and we're living our life from our heart, then we do feel like we found our home.” WayWantFeelsBelieveHeartLongTwoHomeSongFoundLevelsTalkingOur LivesWifeTreatsDeeperFurnitureLong WayWay HomeTrue Home Author:Roger Hodgson
“When I'm happy, when I'm enjoying life, I'm home, I'm surfing, I'm spending time with my wife, my friends and I'm not thinking about the pain. And then the moment I encounter something that feels difficult, I feel like that's when, for me, I turn to writing and thinking and maybe a song comes from that.” ThinkingFeelsWritingMomentsHomePainSongTurnsEnjoyDifficultWifeMy FriendsMy WifeSpendingEncountersEnjoy LifeSurfingSpending TimeWriting And Thinking Author:Jon Foreman
“I can't wait to be a mom and a wife, and explore that phase of life. And also see how it affects and influences my song writing and creativity.” WritingI CanSongWaitingCreativityWifeInfluenceMomPhasesPhases Of Life Author:Tristan Prettyman
“'If You Could Read My Mind' was written during the collapse of my marriage. It's a great song. No one has any gripes about it. I wondered what my wife and daughter might think. My daughter is the one who got me to correct 'The feelings that you lacked' to 'The feelings that we lacked'.” IfsThinkingMindFeelingsMightSongWifeWrittenDaughterMy WifeMy DaughterSongwritingCollapseWriting SongsWife And Daughter Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“I'm a huge fan of Jesus Culture. I absolutely love them. I listen to them a lot. My wife loves them as well. I'm unashamedly a Jesus Culture fan. I love the spontaneity. They'll play a song and it will go for like 25 minutes. That kind of worship, and how they lead people into the presence of God, is just awesome.” PeopleWellsKindPlaySongCultureJesusWifeFansMinutesHugeWorshipMy WifeSpontaneityPresence Of GodWives Love Author:Reuben Morgan
“There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars cheating on their wives, sex.” SongStarsSexWifeRocksArmsAbortionCheatingFuneralNew OrleansRock StarRazors Author:Courtney Love
“Our whole intention was to make a record of songs that we grew up with and change them up a little bit, but we kind of stumbled on writing "Joseph's Lullaby." The irony is when I originally wrote the song, it was called "Mary's Lullaby." I wrote it from Mary's standpoint and it was in a higher key, a real falsetto, and it just wasn't right. One day, the producer's wife said, "Well, it's kind of odd that you're singing from Mary's perspective, being the guy. Why don't you do Joseph?” WritingWellsKindLittlesSaidRealWholeGuySongBitsRecordsWifePerspectiveKeysGrewHigherOne DayLittle BitGrew UpSingingIntentionProducersIronyOddMaryStandpointLullabyFalsetto Author:Bart Millard
“I wouldn't want someone assuming that some negative song has some truth between me and my wife. There was a song that one of my buddies sent me, and it was an awesome song. It was about this woman who had fallen in love with a man that wasn't her husband, and I love everything about the song except for the fact that I personally cannot sing it. It would kill me if someone thought I was singing it about my wife.” IfsMenWantFactsSongWifeTruth IsHusbandSingingNegativeAssumingMy WifeFallenKill MeBuddy Author:Aaron Watson