Jimmie Davis Quotes

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

There are so many great songs yet to sing.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

When words leave off, music begins.

What I'm trying to do is just sing what comes to my body in the context of the song. And if you go by the emotion of the song, it's almost like stepping into a city. Cities have certain customs and rules and laws you can break, and that's what I was doing.

There are great songs out there, and if I love them, and I know them, I'm going to sing them just because that's what songs are for.

Look at Bob Dylan: his voice is not a great sound, but it gets the idea across... and that is what's really important.

I love to have fun when I do a song.

You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

Sing your heart out and write the best song you possible can.

I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

Songs are songs, and to reduce them is to waste them.

We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that.

Dance should touch people.

If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

I love my songs, let's not get crazy here.

Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.

You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.