Song Quotes · Page 236

I used to make love to Green Day's music. But 9 minutes? I'm not Superman.

— Doug Benson

'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.

— J Mascis

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

— George Eliot

I'm very careful with the lyrics in all my dance songs.

— Devi Sri Prasad

Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.

— Paul McCartney

You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.

— Petra Haden

To play your colors by eye is worse than playing the piano by ear.

— John French Sloan

There is a pinciple in the heart of music which has yet to be discovered.

— John Herschel

The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played,…

— John McLaughlin

I try to cross as many genres as possible with the same attitude. I want every song to be very clear.

— Coy Bowles

Any good album title has multiple meanings, and I like choosing titles where I find myself repeating it, almost like a mantra.

— DJ Shadow

When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the…

— Jack Antonoff

Music has always been part of my family's life. My brother, sister, and I all have the same ability to pick up…

— Jack Garratt

I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is.

— Joni Mitchell

The top-tier artists of the game are always tapped in. That's why you can see a dude like Drake do a song…

— Benny the Butcher

Respect to the Smashing Pumpkin the Black Key and the King of the Leon. They all have the real heart and work…

— The Iron Sheik

We were never hip, which is fine with me. We aren't that interested in that whole situation. But all the times how…

— John Rzeznik

I just don't care that much about the band name. I'm not so precious about it. The Harpoons were different people, but…

— Ezra Furman

One gun, one bullet, one shot, one miss Our love, our hug, our song, our kiss My tears, my hurt, my pain,…

— Anonymous

I realize that 'Postcards' was like input, and 'Ghostwriting' was output. I had all these frustrations and feelings before I did those…

— Jens Lekman

A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When…

— Pete Townshend

I was leaving my violin out of a lot of songs, and that's a strange thing to do because I've been playing…

— Amanda Shires

There is no other greater ecstasy, no other greater blissfulness, than to know who you are. To know the inner space is…

— Rajneesh

I like getting my own thoughts out right now, I have fans to solidify, so that's why I don't do tracks with…

— Drake

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.

— Anonymous

When I know it's like a bass song, I gotta go with my SP-1200.

— Mannie Fresh

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Hold up your cups and sing along, to one more drinking song.

— Jerrod Niemann

As a kid, I loved to sing along to the Drifters and Otis Redding.

— Paolo Nutini

"I'm Davey and I sing, make faces and swing from trees.

— Davey Havok

Torturing yourself with depressing music when you're already feeling sad.

— Anonymous

One thing that's really important to me in my music is mystery.

— Julia Holter

When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice.

— Sarah Vaughan

Music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.

— Ian Frazier

“You—you’re what’s important. Music will never be more important than you.”

— Emily Snow

Nobody is going to relate to your lyrics if they're not real.

— Benson Boone

On the song 'Buried Alive,' it's almost like the instrumental is a therapist.

— Logic

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

— Jason Mraz

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

— Siobhan Fahey