Song Quotes · Page 278

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

— Bennett Cerf

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.

— B. B. King

I have no new voices - they've all been used.

— Hank Azaria

I still love a variety of kinds of music.

— Gloria Gaynor

Rock and roll is not just music, it is a way of life, it has its own spirit.

— Anupam Roy

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

— Dave Matthews

To get a song on radio requires an enormous amount of money and cooperation.

— Michael Penn

Bored af listening songs and chilling :P

— Kemis Khan

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

— Eric Church

'Angel Of Death' was a big problem. I remember getting a phone call after the album was done: Sony wasn't going to…

— Jeff Hanneman

Once you get a couple of records in, you kinda vibe out then you see what a full length is.

— Torae

Sometimes I feel people try to be too complex. Some of the greatest songs are so simple. The simplest phrases.

— Jorja Smith

You gotta be, like, a professional hippie. You need to make music because you love it.

— Nick Littlemore

I might be eating something, and the bag opens in a cool way, and I'm like, 'I wanna put that in the…

— Benny Blanco

No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.

— Tom Scholz

“I think I'm supposed to "take a sad song and make it better," but that's beyond my musical ability”

— Sophia Bennett

I think Badfinger was the epitome of that type of music before the power pop term was coined. 'No Matter What" is…

— Robin Zander

You're not just making music for your personal use no more, just making music for your homies around you; you're making music…

— Tyga

Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig…

— Rickie Lee Jones

Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about…

— Legs McNeil

Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get…

— Ville Valo

The very first song I ever wrote was a song called 'Crazy' when I was 11 or 12 with my best girlfriends…

— Tove Lo

The thing about singing is that if you're having fun while doing it then people will have fun watching you do it.…

— Adam DeVine

There are several patients - there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that carry either a stimulator in the…

— Miguel Nicolelis

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

— John Lydon

The silence of the room is as important as the music.

— John Waite

If I have the chance, I would like to write an emotional, sad ballad.

— Jeongyeon

There's no reason but luck that I'm in one of the biggest bands in music.

— apl.de.ap

I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing and I know that I can act.

— Lindsay Pearce

Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.

— Amanda Gorman

For me, creating music is just as relaxing as sitting down and doing nothing.

— Jack Garratt

I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.

— George Strait

I want people to hear my lyrics and my melodies and say, 'That dude's in pain.'

— Ivan Moody

People want to have access to jazz because it has a vibe that's very strong.

— Kurt Elling

For every situation, there is a suitable line from a song.

— Anonymous

I really take pleasure and pride in singing the way people expect me to.

— Russell Mael

A big part of my schtick in my live comedy is doing earnest R&B ballads.

— Jamie Demetriou

Everybody loves a good Christmas song if you do it right.

— Sabrina Carpenter

My mum is quite young, so we actually have similar taste in music.

— Slowthai

My style is simple. It is out and out melody.

— Kumar Sanu