Song Quotes · Page 1,166

Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge of the…

— Chet Atkins

The Beatles realized that what they were making in the studio could never be performed. And they had already given up on…

— Tod Machover

Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people…

— Courtney Barnett

Every song that has been a hit for me has been honest and truthful. I have to believe that same formula will…

— Reba McEntire

We never thought it would be something everyone would listen to. We never thought people who listen to Britney Spears would run…

— Wayne Coyne

I flow, Like a river, Like the winds, Ever traveling, Evolving, Free. My Love, Unbound, My Passions, Insatiable, My Joy, An epidemic.…

— Eric Nickel

Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because…

— Ryan Tedder

Music is one of the only things that helps to reconnect neural pathways in our brain: listening, performing, singing, making a verbal…

— Melody Gardot

Wasurenaide is neither my song nor anyone else's song. Because it is the song that belongs to the 5 members of Tohoshinki.…

— Jaejoong

Kisses like poetry, like writing sonnets, quatrains, cinquains free verse desire Kisses like ballads, your tongue on the roof of my mouth.…

— Azra T

I don't really listen to rock music anymore. But were I to write a song that sounded like it could be a…

— Dan Bejar

“They've written songs about this feeling, and poems and books, and movies. All of them telling us to live each moment like…

— Dan Skinner

“Lots of people imagine wrongly that 'My Favorite Things' is one of my compositions; I would have loved to have written it,…

— John Coltrane

So when you're talking about lyrics in the context of music, it's not just about what the words mean, and what you…

— Mirah

I'm playing a D-28 Martin that I've had about 20 years or so. I've got a '51 Martin and I thought I…

— Steve Young

Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned…

— Daniel Barenboim

I love you," he writes again and again. "I can't bear to live without you. I'm counting the minutes until I see…

— Christina Baker Kline

Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately…

— Arto Lindsay

For 'Hey Monday,' there were songs that I co-wrote with songwriters or producers, but our last EP, the whole band did everything…

— Cassadee Pope

Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you…

— Wynton Marsalis

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare…

— Geoffrey Fisher

When I think about the cause I'm most passionate about, it's all in my music all the time, because I'm always singing…

— India.Arie

I just love to play music. I enjoy it more than anything. I enjoy it more than drinking with my friends in…

— Tom Odell

I've never written songs about relationships. I've written songs about how I feel. The songs are more about me, than another person.…

— Marilyn Manson

The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the…

— Robyn Hitchcock

I'm not deciding what the artist is going to write about because it's the artist. They're gonna have to sing that song…

— Benny Blanco

“The very words we choose to characterize our habits can make them seem more or less appealing. "Engagement time sounds more interesting…

— Gretchen Rubin

I was able to notice in a very early stage, there were discrepancies between the people who are writing the songs and…

— Owen Pallett

As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out.…

— Isaac Brock

“Pure truth," I said. "You are my bright penny by the roadside. You are worth more than salt or the moon on…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself -…

— Jon Foreman

I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little…

— Amy Winehouse

Еach song is like starting over. Because somehow, no song's formula works for another. And that's the beauty of it all. Each…

— David First

I had some proper training, but that was only on snare drum. Learning all the techniques in marching bands and realizing how…

— Vinnie Paul

Cheating tends to come up a lot in my songs. Betrayal fascinates me. I think the fact that you can trust someone…

— Jade Bird

As for music and my place in it, maybe things are changing a little bit. I know this: a good song is…

— Vanilla Ice

Pretty much any given day, barring some major distraction, I get melodies coming to me. Lyrics don't come quite as easily. So…

— Andrew Bird

Initially we were spitting lyrics over garage beats, in that eight-bar gap where there wasn't a vocal. But we were rebellious towards…

— Kano

Oh, you've outdone me twice now, you queen of forgiveness. The ring's a promise of peace and I'm greedy with hope. It's…

— Melina Marchetta