Song Quotes · Page 367

“a wise man could earn more from silence than from song.”

— George R.R. Martin

Nobody has one band anymore. They've got two and three and four!

— Martie Maguire

The only thing major labels can really offer is money.

— Conor Oberst

Every song that I compose has to satisfy the music director in me.

— Gopi Sundar

These are my people, this is my song, dirty street, where I belong.

— Anonymous

It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.

— Larry Mullen, Jr

“You are my sunshine...'/ (the scariest song ever)/ '...my only sunshine.”

— Ryan Mecum

Heavy metal these days is what I call wimpy.

— John Waite

We're not trying to make 'Toxicity' Part II, just because it was by far our biggest album.

— John Dolmayan

My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or…

— Stephan Jenkins

'Sweet Summer Day' was inspired by wanting to write the perfect summer song! Both Chaeyoung and myself had ideas for lyrics, and…

— Jeongyeon

Life's a show and we all play a part And when the music starts We open up our hearts

— Joss Whedon

Sometimes, I wish you would pay more attention to my favourite songs, because the lyrics they sing are the words I'm too…

— Anonymous

The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set…

— Beck

I've listened to Terry Wogan since I was a girl; my parents listened to David Jacobs and Desmond Carrington.

— Zoe Ball

People are doing what they can these days and looking for creative ways to sell music.

— Greg Laswell

Once you've made a record, you don't need to make it again. It's done, and it's out there forever, a moment in…

— John Oates

I always think it's more interesting to leave the context of those songs a little vague. Like, all these songs come from…

— Alex G

I can sit in my room and write a song that I think might be a hit. I can sort of make…

— Estelle

We were very creative. There was nothing contrived about us. No one telling us what to do, what to wear, what to…

— Keren Woodward

It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to…

— Manika

I live alone in a house, so for me it's very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and…

— Adam Young

The best advice I got really had nothing to do with singing; it came from my brother, who always told me to…

— Gregg Allman

When I was young, my voice was so strong, and I would annoy people because I had such a loud little voice.…

— Skylar Grey

I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.

— Meat Loaf

“Oscar is our Liszt and Bill Evans is our Chopin,”

— Stuart Isacoff

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

— Pete Townshend

'Boogie Chillen',' by John Lee Hooker - that is a riff.

— Jimmy Page

Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.

— Elliott Yamin

Frankly, all the songs from 'Fiza' that made news were mine.

— Anu Malik

Three thousand people singing back your songs is an incredible feeling.

— Jake Bugg

I'm more vocal about my ideas in person and music.

— Christina Milian

Music is just where I sort of write my emotions down.

— Cody Simpson

I'm the drummer that kind of plays more on top of the beat.

— Tony Palermo

Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words

— Elie Wiesel

“music, the universal language of love and hope and loss and everything else.”

— Sarah Ockler

The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

“A touch of love has healing power. A song of love can heal deep scars.”

— Debasish Mridha

One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song.

— Darius Rucker

I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it

— Warren Zevon