Song Quotes · Page 178

We just were a band one day. We woke up and in the morning we were a band.

— The Rev

I've got my girl and my guitar, and for me that's enough.

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

I used to play tenor sax in high school, man.

— Sean Price

I hate it when I am singing a song and the artist gets the words wrong.

— Cuts And Scars

I've written a lot of songs that I really love, plenty for an album.

— Ruel

The first shows we played were after metal bands and everyone hated us.

— Calum Hood

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.

— Sonny Terry

“Why are you sad, when you can sing a song?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

When you've got insane drums and a lot of guitar, it's really hard to mix the vocals, to mix it all well.

— Marnie Stern

Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put…

— Talib Kweli

There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.

— Jimi Hendrix

“I think that if Mozart were alive today and decided to become a novelist, he would write humorous fantasy.”

— Frank P. Ryan

I sit at the piano for a couple of hours and tinker away until I get something. I am a nocturnal spirit,…

— Thomston

Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.

— Donald Miller

One of the features of being a piano player is playing as an accompanist for other people.

— Leon Russell

I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New…

— Talib Kweli

It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence…

— Gwen Stefani

“My name is Wind. And Rain. And Bone and Dust. My name is a snippet of a half-remembered song... I have no…

— Sarah J. Maas

Here's the way the licensing works ... If you write a song, nobody can record your song before you do without your…

— Frank Zappa

I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a…

— Joshua Homme

“Closing my eyes, I then focused in on the lyrics. I couldn't help thinking how much the song meant to me because…

— Katie Ashley

The hardest part is writing a song as a story. A song is so short and there are only so many words…

— Giveon

Being the foundation is what I live for, some people call it being in the pocket, some people call it a groove.…

— Tommy Shannon

I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it…

— Malcolm Wilson

I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

— Lee Konitz

All I do is hope that someone feels something from listening to my music.

— Jack Garratt

Every artist usually has one or two songs that really define their careers.

— Gary Wright

A tune is a song without words. Death is a life without love.

— Anonymous

The history of a people are found in its songs.

— George Jellinek

“Don’t die with the music inside your head; let it be heard.”

— Abhaidev

Obviously, I write all of my lyrics from my heart and my life first.

— Olivia Rodrigo

We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.

— Roger Daltrey

I can't predict what songs will do to the collective consciousness.

— Jason Mraz

Music, I feel like, affects people's moods.

— Aaron Judge

I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes

— Harold Budd

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

— Mark Knopfler

I think it is your job as an artist to be able to hear a song.

— Keifer Thompson

I consider my music edgy, urban and with an earthy element.

— Jeet Gannguli

I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.

— Randy Jackson

I don't know why, but I like the saxophone.

— Matt Dillon