Song Quotes · Page 272

I must say I've always composed music from the point of view of the performers.

— Walter Piston

I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way.

— Kylie Minogue

“You play me with your jazz & leave me with the blues.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?

— Jon Stewart

My goal was to become a 'good singer' rather than a 'different singer.'

— Rose

Don't think. The worst songs I've ever written happen when I think.

— Neil Young

The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.

— Pat Metheny

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape

— Shania Twain

We weren't like mates who decided to form a band. The other three met me because they were interested in being in…

— Billy Corgan

It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.

— Steve Vai

From our music in general, we've always fought the idea that we had to fit into a box or fit into a…

— Chrissy Costanza

Vinyl's just a fun endgame step. I work with analogue signal chains too, but the mp3 is the way I listen to…

— Tim Hecker

This is how people are going to listen to music now - streaming. So diversify as a band. It doesn't mean selling…

— Winston Marshall

I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.

— George Michael

My mom is floored! She's so proud. I always wanted to do a channel that incorporates songs for younger kids.

— GloZell

We just feel like whoever is doing music, they express themselves the best way they can from what they know.

— Sisqo

I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious…

— Ben Gibbard

It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?'…

— Eddie Van Halen

The reason I wanted to become an organ player was because I heard Ray Charles play on Quincy Jones' arrangement of "One…

— Booker T. Jones

The second album of Black Mages is currently in the process of recording and the basic tracks have already been completed. Hopefully…

— Nobuo Uematsu

“There’s something helpless about truly being in love, the kind of love they write songs about, that inspires poetry and launches ships…

— Kennedy Ryan

“. . . to my surprise I began to know what The Language was about, not just the part we were singing…

— Monica Furlong

There are bands who write of emotions that are very heartbreaking, touching, or relatable, but they'll be like concept records, they're about…

— Julien Baker

I like to make up songs. And it's my opinion that all these songs mean a lot to me, but that doesn't…

— Todd Snider

My music really is universal and welcomes everybody.

— Maisie Peters

I just like a good, sad song. The sadder, the better. It moves me.

— John Prine

“Music is only work when someone else makes you do it.”

— Rachel Hartman

All Religions. All This Singing. One Song. Peace Be With You.

— Rumi

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

— Ry Cooder

“Music has been called 'the most noise conveying the least information”

— Stuart Hall

“Every song deserves lyrics. Deserves a story to tell.”

— Courtney C. Stevens

When punk picked up black leather, I put it down.

— Suzi Quatro

I'd rather get a hot dog or a doughnut than write a song.

— John Prine

The total person sings not just the vocal chords.

— E. M. Broner

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

— Mick Jagger

This is not a love song I don't sing my mother tongue.

— Rammstein

As I've gotten older, my love for jazz has increased.

— Lauren Daigle

I never liked the Beatles. I thought they were garbage.

— Lou Reed

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

— David Crosby

I'm about to sing the song for the future.

— Stephanie Mills