Song Quotes · Page 309

We had no clue what heavy metal was. We were like: 'What's that?'

— Yui Mizuno

I don't got nobody writing my lyrics and that's why I freestyle.

— Riff Raff

The world doesn't need any more pretty good songs.

— Mary Gauthier

Garage music came up when people weren't paying attention.

— Estelle

Glorious the song, when God's the theme.

— Christopher Smart

I listen to a lot of music from outside, lot of background scores.

— Amaal Mallik

Skillet better thn drugs best song ever:)

— Natalya Johnson

I think it shows when you have to work too hard on a song.

— John Prine

The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.

— Paul Lansky

“I asked for the music, then invited it to enter my body and find the broken and sore places and restore them”

— Maya Angelou

My childhood was full of Salil Chowdhary, R.D. Burman and Madan Mohan sahab. My father used to play with them and I…

— Jeet Gannguli

“Clive remained behind Simon’s knees. Simon’s Knees . . . What a great name for a band.”

— Alice Clayton

Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking…

— Alex Turner

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued…

— Neil Young

You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want…

— Jon Foreman

You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.

— Gary Cherone

Classical music, fortunately or not, unfolds in time. It's not like a picture you can stare at for 10 seconds or 10…

— Carlo Grante

If you have a piece by Bach, he often develops the piece to such a high level that you can hardly do…

— David Russell

“I started going to jazz clubs in New York when I was twelve or thirteen, first with my older cousins Mike and…

— Donald Fagen

The reality of my life is it's about 25 percent music, and everything else I do is so I can get that…

— Maggie Rogers

I know people are going to be like, 'why do you have so many songs with the word 'you' in it? 'Idea…

— Eric Nam

When I was a kid I wanted to be a musician. I used to play the trumpet. I practiced all the time,…

— Zach Woods

I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brothers a drummer and Ive always been jealous that hes such a…

— Nat Wolff

I learned how to play the drums. When we were in pre-production, when we were still in LA, I had a couple…

— Mary-Kate Olsen

I've never had anything as formal as vocal lessons.

— Paolo Nutini

I'm a songwriter and I'd love to make that a part of my career.

— Condola Rashad

My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

— Jerry Harrison

Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.

— Andy Summers

Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.

— Yanni

The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive

— Taryn Manning

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

— Anonymous

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

— Robert Browning

A lot of the inspiration for my album 'Rules' was the cheekiness of Aqua.

— Manila Luzon

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

— George Eliot

A song's lyrics can't be held culprit for the overall change in society.

— Adnan Sami

I love song and dance films in Bollywood.

— Tabu

“The best song in the whole wide world is one that reminds us of something.”

— Abayomi Kayode Patrick

The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them.

— How to Dress Well

I never had the blues; the blues always had me.

— Brownie McGhee

I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.

— Verite