Catchy Quotations

Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and they can have catchy and satisfying melodies. There's nothing wrong with songs.

Gospel was the root of everything in my house, so there's a touch of that in everything that I do. If soul counts as a genre, I would also say that's the common thread throughout everything I do. There's rock and soul influence, too. The pop element comes at the very end and making the song catchy so people will remember it.

People are consuming more than ever, but I think they want a bit of honesty and depth. Adele, Gotye, Janelle Monae - they're giving you a catchy song, but it's also a challenging song at the same time.

Everything needs to be catchy because a listener is either going to stay with the song or lose interest in the first five seconds. But people also like those songs they can relate to and say, 'Yeah, I went through that.'

Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal Collective, who aren't pop bands exactly, but they do something that is so catchy and undeniable and so much fun.

Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it's no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof.

I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.

From the beginning, I've always had a knack for catchy melodies. But I went through a period when I was trying to be rock n' roll and have a rock n' roll attitude. I was fighting my nature by trying to play really hard and sing really hard. But at a certain point, I realized that I loved syrupy pop music with tons of harmony.

Writing short, catchy pop songs was the hardest thing for me to do. The reason boils down to how things are perceived. The most mystifying thing is why a certain combination of words and melody will blow people's minds, while others - which is 99.9 percent of all songs - fall flat. That for me was the search: to discover how to create songs that had that quality.

No matter what they tell you, no matter what they do, no matter what they teach you, what you believe is true.

We've always had a lot of different influences and we've always liked catchy music from the Beatles to Cheap Trick to Elvis Costello.

There is a false love that will make you something you are not.

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

Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.

God save me from myself.

We started three seasons ago with Monday Night Football. We thought it might be a catchy attraction to get guys who don't regularly go to church.

The top story, as always, is America remaining obsessed, fascinated -- appalled -- by what is now being called Dick-Cheney-Shot-a-Guy-in-the-Face-Gate. Not as catchy as others have been ...

You are pretty much stuck. I'm not even acquainted with what anyone is calling this decade. There is no catchy phrase.

This song probably has the most memorable melody we've ever recorded. I really like how we're using something so catchy to convey these abstract lyrical ideas I have about songwriting. When I sit down to write a song, I always feel like I'm wading into a river where a nurturing female presence guides me and pushes me along when I need it.

(On wake up) It's a cool upbeat catchy pop tune, so don't forget to get your ticket to my concert!!!!

That's just a really catchy song, and I don't know if we want to release such a catchy song. I'd rather kinda push people's brains. I'd hate being known as the band that is recognized for that song. So I don't know. ... It's weird with our songs because it's like the weirdest song that you would never think could be a single becomes a single.

I like songs that are so damn catchy that you wake up in the morning with them in your head.

I'll do it very quickly and spontaneously. I expect that it will be slightly strange and bizarre, but catchy at the same time.

Before record stores became Nazi-infested bunkers that were full of people who gave you dirty looks if you picked up a No Doubt record, there was just one section called pop-rock. We all consider it pop-rock because we're playing pop-rock 'n' roll music, which, when it comes right down to it, means catchy songs about girls that you're totally going to be obsessed with.

I don't think most people think of our type of music as catchy but it is. It's just like a polka. Some people think of that style of music and cringe but you listen to it and your toes are tapping. The same thing goes for Irish music.

They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood.

These are catchy songs the kids will take to their math class and remember what three times four is.

It's a logo and a hook for everything we plan to do under arts education. It's a catchy way to say arts are important in your life.

It's a catchy tune. Hopefully you'll be hearing it on a football terrace near you, very, very soon.

When I'm making something I need it to be catchy - I need it to hit the sweet spot.

Don't let your life wait for other people.

If you're not living I mean really living, you're dead already.

If it hurts, DON'T DO IT AGAIN.

If you can laugh at yourself, you are going to be fine. If you allow others to laugh with you, you will be great.

The heart does heal and you will love like this again- except when you do, you'll deny that you ever loved like this before.

That which does not kill you will ultimately make you stronger.

Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.

So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.

I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion.

If your intuition is telling you not to do something, then don't. Your intuition is not stupid.

I'm a sucker for a catchy song, and dance music. That's my sweet spot.

Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too seriously.

A good song stays in your head because it's catchy, a great song stays because it means something to you.

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

False hope is nicer than no hope at all.

Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.

Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.

If people knew how much I hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.

By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not,

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

Every reform was once a private opinion.

The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it.

Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.