Song Quotes · Page 103

I love to just be consistently playing music.

— John Popper

“Music relaxes our mind, just as water quenches our thirst.”

— John Joclebs Bassey

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

— Lennon Parham

I always thought music was open to all things.

— Dawn Angelique

Basically, I want to prove to everybody that I can write music - good music.

— Cam'ron

Interaction is what jazz music is all about.

— Stan Getz

Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.

— Cass McCombs

I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.

— Alex Kapranos

If we all knew how to make that jump from good to great then I think every song would be great.

— Thomston

Sometimes I'll be driving and a lyric will come into my head, and I will have to pull over and record it…

— Lil' Kim

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say…

— Ken Burns

I've been with Rita Ora in the studio doing a song of hers. She's amazing. She's a sweetheart.

— Anitta

You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.

— Jack White

The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.

— Charles Kuralt

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at…

— Joshua Homme

When I write a song, that process is sort of entwined with a lyric or a chord progression that suits the vibe,…

— Michelle Zauner

To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life…

— Neil Peart

The minute we first started recording 'Defend Yourself,' I thought, 'Yeah. We're going to have to deal with a really terrible review…

— Lou Barlow

When I was first starting out, I drove myself around the country in my Honda Civic, playing anywhere that would have me.…

— Eric Hutchinson

My dad was into jazz, so there was a lot of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington playing in the house, but also…

— Arlo Parks

“It was like a song, one of those sweet, wrenching songs that makes the hair on your arms stand up. That makes…

— L.J. Smith

It was during this [as a kid] time that I came out of my shell vocally and performance wise, I learned how…

— Tessanne Chin

I love vocal music, but I've had a hard time understanding myself through the English language. So it just seemed to me…

— Arca

Sometimes, even when I'm writing the lyrics, I'm not sure what I'm getting at, but then months will pass and I'll listen…

— A.C. Newman

My head works in music, so there's always music there.

— Ben Harper

Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.

— Peter Steele

History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

— John Lydon

A great pop song should be felt when you hear it.

— Max Martin

Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.

— Patti Smith

A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time

— Paul Simon

When listening to the radio, if a love song comes on, squeeze her hand tighter.

— James Merrow

I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.

— Levon Helm

When you're talking about rock n' roll, myth-making is what it's all about.

— Nick Cave

Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.

— Edmund Waller

“I just got into the Beatles a couple of years ago, you know, I like it.”

— Ziggy Marley

If you're buying an album because of the face on it, you're stupid.

— Enrique Iglesias

“domino, and mixes with the masquers.' 'And”

— Charles Dickens

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

— Lawrence Welk

Creating music is a wonderful way to celebrate our devotion for Lord Shiva.

— Amish Tripathi