Song Knowledge Quotes

When you play the bars, you pay your dues. It does matter that you know those things [songs]. And the great thing for me, too, is that I draw on that stuff as influences. It's also stuff that you put in the tank that you pull from to make records.

I know every Skynyrd and about all Johnny Cash songs.

Taylor was named after James Taylor and claims that she knows all the James Taylor songs, and I'm a huge fan of James Taylor and know all his songs, too. My dad told me that if I ever met Taylor Swift, I had to tell her that I know every James Taylor song. We started naming albums, and we were both shouting them out.

I can sit down at the piano and make you think I know how to play the piano because I know, like, the beginnings of four songs.

I would say Tracy Chapman was the first time I obsessed over an entire record. I knew every song; I knew the exact amount of seconds between each song. That's the level of obsession that I had.

I know the words to, like, every song. Hoobastank, whatever.

I can sing 'Love Me Do,' very well.

I would always sing it (Take Me Out To The Ballgame) because I think it's the only song I knew the words to.

I don't know any songs. People have asked me to play a song, and I say, "I don't know anything."

You've got to really know your song, inside and out.