1. A good song gathers the years in. It’s why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it’s been written.-Bruce Springsteen
2. If it’s a good song, it doesn’t really matter if it’s trendy or not. It will hit.-Tablo
3. A good song’s a good song, and well known songs take on meaning in people’s lives.-Ty Segall
3. If it is a good song, it is a good song. The Beatles were pop, the beach boys were pop and it’s the best music of all time.-William Fitzsimmons
4. One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.-Phil Ochs
5. A good song reminds us what we’re fighting for.-Pete Seeger
6. A good song stays in your head because it’s catchy, a great song stays because it means something to you.-Tove Lo
7. A good song is a nice set of chords and some good lyrics; a great song is a song that reinvents itself over time. That you can always find something interesting in the more you listen to it – it keeps revealing something to you.-Bryce Dessner
8. A good song is like a mannequin – its form makes sense, but there’s no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful lyric, appropriate arrangement.-Greta Salpeter
9. There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind … the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it’s successful; if it doesn’t it has failed.-Duke Ellington
10. Good music is wine turned to sound-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
11. All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.-Jean Cocteau
12. A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.-Bruce Springsteen
13. A good song should give you a lot of images; you should be able to make your own little movie in your head to a good song.-Tom Petty
14. Good songs are what a good band is all about. When you have a good song that stands up to the test of the time, that is the most important thing.-Joey Kramer
16. A good song can make you smile, or it can make you dance or laugh or remind you of a moment.-Charli XCX
17. A good song is a good song, and good musicians can play all different styles.-John Doe
18. A good song receives love forever.-Kim Jong-hyun
19. That is the difference between a good song and a bad song lyrically – if you can listen to it and put yourself in that place, or see that person in that place, normally it is a pretty good song.-Ne-Yo
20. A good song and good musicians can really move mountains.-Joey Tempest
21. Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.-Miles Davis
22. Good music is good music and that should be enough for anybody.-Bradley Nowell
23. Good music can act as a guide to good living.-John Cage