Song Quotes · Page 245

“The maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum”

— Leonard Cohen

I usually write to the beat. Really, the beat can make the song itself.

— Blueface

The tonal is the sense of place. It is order and reason in a world of chaos.

— Frederick Lenz

I mean, I never want to say who any of my songs are about.

— Olivia Rodrigo

Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing.

— Vivian Campbell

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

— Pat Metheny

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

For me, family has always been one of the key reasons to make music.

— Little Louie Vega

Life's a show and we all play a part And when the music starts We open up our hearts

— Joss Whedon

I've listened to Terry Wogan since I was a girl; my parents listened to David Jacobs and Desmond Carrington.

— Zoe Ball

The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set…

— Beck

People are doing what they can these days and looking for creative ways to sell music.

— Greg Laswell

We're not trying to make 'Toxicity' Part II, just because it was by far our biggest album.

— John Dolmayan

'Sweet Summer Day' was inspired by wanting to write the perfect summer song! Both Chaeyoung and myself had ideas for lyrics, and…

— Jeongyeon

My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or…

— Stephan Jenkins

That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record,…

— Adam Yauch

My own style on the guitar grew out of my experience with the lute. I suppose some people might say I play…

— Julian Bream

“Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which…

— Alexandre Dumas

If I feel like I've completely drained every ounce of energy out of me for this song, and I can't go any…

— Ella Henderson

When I was a kid growing up in Kentucky, on lucky summer nights, my cousin would pick me up in his Chevy…

— Chris Frantz

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now…

— Alvin Lee

I think there's always been hope in my songs, no matter how they've first appeared. I think there's always been a shred…

— Jakob Dylan

All the songs on the first album were like skeletons of how we really played them. It was just a combination of…

— Robby Krieger

And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played…

— Izaak Walton

I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s.

— Johnny Depp

“Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.”

— Leslie Austin

“This is my one last call and lullaby for this eternity. All of my medicine.”

— Nicholaus Patnaude

“Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.

— Mike Love

I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out.

— Taylor Swift

“Any aesthetic quality is usually enhanced by the presence of a counterpoint.”

— Matthew Frederick

When I was a teenager, my mom got me a really nice baritone ukulele.

— Lou Barlow

Dance Monkey' is about the bad side of busking.

— Tones and I

Rock 'n' roll is a crazy world, and it's how things work out you can't predict.

— Sixto Rodriguez

You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.

— Randy Travis

If you emphasize one part of the song, it trivializes the rest of the music.

— Jack White

Music doesn't need to be perfect, but you'll know when it's right.

— Kristian Bush

They say music can alter moods and talk to you.

— Eminem

I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

— David Guetta

The day I write a totally happy song... I'll retire.

— Dean Lewis