Song Value Quotes

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

'I'm Yours' was written effortlessly in about 20 minutes' time, and I honestly thought it was more of like a kids' song, and I didn't do anything with it for years.

I don't want to sing songs that aren't worth while. Time is so rare. I just don't want to waste the listener's time and I think that my songs don't do that. That's what I pray for. I want songs that really touch people's hearts.

But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.

A good song is a good song.

I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton John, or you know, whoever, Bob Dylan. Great songs are great songs, and they stand the test of time, and they can be interpreted and recorded with many points of view, but yet still retain the essence of what makes them good songs.

If a song was ever good, it's still good.

Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.

For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song.

I think that a good song is catchy, and a great song is not catchy - but it has a deeper meaning.

If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

I Hope' is the fourth song that I'd ever written in Nashville. I didn't know that it was as special as it was.