Song Quotes · Page 331

It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music.

— George C. Marshall

Ska is fine. Punk is fine. Putting those two together drove us crazy.

— Davey Havok

The thing is, all the lyrics come from us.

— Luke Hemmings

I love to sing, so I just figured that I was going to sing or something.

— Tia Carrere

[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.

— Salman Rushdie

I just find that with music I've always felt a sort of comfort.

— Aaron Bruno

I think every album serves as a step in your career.

— Wade Bowen

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

— Gregg Allman

I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere…

— Randy Bachman

“Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees”

— Benny Bellamacina

Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps…

— Hildegard of Bingen

Music can help you maintain great mental sharpness, increasing your mind's awareness while reducing risk of mental disorders.

— Anonymous

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

— Atticus Ross

If the melodies are strong, it's much easier to see which way I can take them sound-wise.

— Trentemøller

I think a lot of bands would rather put mediocre rock tracks on their album to try to maintain some sort of…

— Dennis DeYoung

I first picked up the bass guitar when I was twelve years old, and fooled around with it. By the time I…

— Mark Mendoza

“Away in the distance, a train appeared behind the trees, all its compartments were lit, the windows were sure to be open.…

— Franz Kafka

I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of…

— Wendy Starland

If you're working with a producer like Rick Rubin or whatever, you sing each line probably 30 different ways. Each time they're…

— Glenn Danzig

“...My voice is stained with bloody light, and I see irises dry up at its touch; in my song I wear the…

— Federico García Lorca

When Armaan sang his first song for Vishal Dadlani, he didn't know that they were making Daboo Malik's son sing. He went…

— Amaal Mallik

My mom tells this story that even when I was in the womb, my father played the piano and she sang. So,…

— Cyrus Chestnut

I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in.…

— Timothy B. Schmit

People misinterpret my emotions towards Nirvana because I've said things about how something happened with grunge that took a little bit of…

— Brandon Flowers

Type of Way,' like a lot of my music, it's about real events.

— Rich Homie Quan

If a song was ever good, it's still good.

— Willie Nelson

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

— Tim Finn

I'm that dude who will burst into song spontaneously.

— Perez Hilton

Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat minor.

— Nikhil Saluja

We stand for musical individuality. That's all we stand for.

— M. Shadows

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

— Anonymous

“A poem shouldn't just give melody; it should give meaning.”

— Amit Kalantri

For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?

— Zakk Wylde

Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.

— Stone Gossard

People misinterpret my lyrics sometimes too, but I mean, it is what it is.

— Roddy Ricch

I wouldn't mind being popular in other ways, but not with music.

— Sufjan Stevens

I want to stay away from trends and do what we want to do musically.

— M. Shadows

The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute?

— Rumi

I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.

— Billy Sherwood

I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.

— Karen O