Song Quotes · Page 254

I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

There is the music of Heaven in all things.

— Hildegard of Bingen

I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.

— Sam Hunt

I think you have to drop an album to truly see the effects of your following.

— T.I

My dad loved Les Paul, and I wanted to be just like that.

— Steve Miller

I'm spiritual, too, but 'Gitty Up' is a great song, know what I mean?

— Pepa

Songs always get better after you start playing them live.

— Jason Mraz

There's a jazz influence in my music in general.

— Alexandre Desplat

Your the beat of my heart, the song on my lips, the air on my lungs. You are an irriplacible part of…

— Rachel Smile

Tramps Like Us is The GREATEST Bruce Springsteen Tribute Band In The LAND! I've witnessed them on several occasions and their performances…

— Mike Appel

It's satisfying to put out new music. And I think that's the context in which I'm comfortable revisiting things from the past.

— DJ Shadow

I like it when girls are screaming for me. It makes me feel really player-like. I enjoy being out there, delivering my…

— Kirko Bangz

I want people to get out of that nasty habit of needing a label. Every genre for each song is different.

— SZA

“I may not have written the song, but I could add my story to it. Everyone out there could. That was what…

— Tara Kelly

I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm…

— Samantha Barks

Don't call yourself a rock music fan if the only bands you know are BVB and Linkin Park.

— Anonymous

Arch Enemy is a female-fronted metal band, but so is Delain. They don't sound alike at all. The only thing they both…

— Floor Jansen

One of the most harmful things in the music industry is 'record-by-committee,' where 10 people from the label gather around, and they…

— Benji Madden

Because U.K. artists aren't compensated when their music is played on U.S. radio ­stations, U.S. artists aren't ­compensated when their records are…

— Neil Portnow

For the first couple of records that I made I just tried to sing like Hank Williams, you know, because I liked…

— Porter Wagoner

For me personally, and as a band, there are a lot of challenges. Being in a band is like war, it's a…

— Erik Rutan

When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to…

— Gary Cherone

I don’t have a theoretical language for music. I’m really inspired by sculpture, so I like to say, ‘you’re not making music,…

— Daniel Lopatin

An album represents an artist or a band or a group of musicians at any given moment in time. You just produce…

— Ian Gillan

The music is the void. And you're the reason why.

— Gayle Forman

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

— Anonymous

He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

— Anonymous

I just think Radiohead are f-in' miserable bastards.

— Noel Gallagher

I just started exploring the guitar and seeing where it would take me.

— Billy Squier

My foundation is jazz. I do all the things jazz musicians do.

— Dianne Reeves

For me, the value of music is the value you extract from it.

— Kevin Parker

I always put my identity at the forefront of my music.

— Lotic

I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.

— Roscoe Mitchell

I like to fancy myself more of a musician than anything else.

— Trey Parker

The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.

— Herbert Croly

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

— Brian Eno

“The wolves howl bluer than Billie Holliday, but they don't spoil my song.”

— Jeanette Lynes

Music will bring you through... It brought me through.

— Debbie Reynolds

When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.

— Vanessa Paradis

I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.

— David Thewlis