Song Quotes · Page 120

Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?

— Christopher Moore

Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.

— Noel Redding

Restarting the whole song cause you missed your favorite line.

— Unknow

Practice? I never practice. I just write songs and take solos.

— Tom Verlaine

Virgin Records will probably release their own package sometime next year.

— Paula Abdul

We were a band way before we ever did anything with Disney.

— Kevin Jonas

The late-sixties Teles are the best value you can get for a vintage guitar.

— Brad Paisley

I was shy. But when I sang I felt really empowered.

— Judith Durham

When I'm writing, I try to think about what would make a song better before worrying about personal opinions.

— Phoebe Bridgers

I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with…

— Mose Allison

I'm really just concentrating on making good music, whether it's using a sample or doing an original track.

— Rahki

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.

— Kesha

I really enjoy going out with my jazz group. That's something that I don't ever want to stop doing.

— Dianne Reeves

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

— Neil Diamond

And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.

— Bobby Sherman

“Q: What songs do Santa’s gnomes sing to him when he comes home freezing on Christmas night? A: Freeze a jolly good…

— Uncle Amon

When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making…

— Miguel

Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is…

— Todd Rundgren

Not a specific song. What I do maybe love above all about Nick Cave is how he's created this universe, this world,…

— Mirel Wagner

I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in…

— Donovan

Just take me home where the mood is mellow And the roses are grown M&M's are yellow And the light bulbs around…

— Lupe Fiasco

My father had a phase of having jukeboxes all over the house. He was a music lover but he was also into…

— Squarepusher

I wanted to get a guitar [when I was 13] so I could play punk songs because kid taught me power chords…

— Ezra Furman

'Sally' is just a song that I wrote talking to my alter ego. When I write, I don't really consciously say, 'This…

— Bibi Bourelly

Feed the musician, and he's out of tune.

— George Crabbe

It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

— Julian Casablancas

When a lovely flame dies, Smoke gets in your eyes.

— Otto Harbach

If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.

— Peabo Bryson

Music changes the world cause it changes people.

— $Teady

I just want to break that song into pieces and love them all to death.

— Rainbow Rowell

I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

— Robyn Hitchcock

I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.

— Glenn Frey

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

— Evan Dando

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.

— Stephen King

I love music, but more for the context within the music than a certain sound.

— Wesley Eisold

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

— Noel Redding

I felt that when punk came out, it was overlooked.

— Marky Ramone

The most important things cannot be spoken; that’s why there’s music.

— Clive Wearing

Music is really a medicine, it can make you feel good.

— E-40

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

— John Oates