Percy Sledge Quotes

I think I've got to go back to 'Someone to Watch Over Me.' I think it's a perfectly written song. I really do. I think it's one of the great songs in the American Songbook, and it speaks to love in its simplest and purest form.

I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write.

Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking songs.

If music be the food of love, play on.

See, I'm a Pisces, so I get down with love songs. I'm totally into slow jams and old-school R&B, all that.

'The Boatman's Call' is amazing; it's an album of love songs, really beautiful.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

No one needs to recut 'He Stopped Loving Her Today.'

I got a song called 'All That I Got Is You.' I wrote that from the heart.

I am very proud of the song 'More & More.' It's a great love song and has really fun choreography attached.

I like 'love' songs, however cheesy that might sound.

When you hear a romantic song, the feeling is incomparable.

I keep saying to everyone that one day I'll write a love song.

Love songs are the most complex to write because everyone knows about it.

If you listen to what I'm saying, there's always a reason for it. Always. And it always comes from my heart, a place of love.

I have a card catalogue in my brain of every lyric of every sappy love song ever written.

The secret to The Temptations is the music: simple music about a man loving a woman. We talk about the lady when we need her, when we want her to be there; we talk about ain't too proud to beg. It's simple, you know? You can't go wrong.

I am a balladeer. People fall in love to ballads, and that is what makes the world go round.

'State of Play' is a romantic story at its heart.

I believe in love above all.

I think that the best songs to sing are songs that you love, because you sing them with love when you love them.

I know people are going to be like, 'why do you have so many songs with the word 'you' in it? 'Idea Of You,' 'Into You,' 'Like You,' 'You-Who'... Well, sorry, but it just works out that way.

It’s a brilliant song! C’mon…’Every day is like survival. You’re my lover, not my rival.’ What could be more meaningful than that? (Jesse)