Song Quotes · Page 378

There haven't been many credible electronic covers records.

— Martin Gore

It's such a great honor to be mentioned along The Beatles.

— J-Hope

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

— Amy Winehouse

“Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.”

— Toba Beta

Every personal experience of my life impacts my music.

— Chaka Khan

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

— Branford Marsalis

My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.

— Rod Stewart

I don't know if I've ever written a song that wasn't on assignment.

— Henry Mancini

When you're working a three-hour gig, how do you know when to climax? You just watch the crowd and ride the wave.…

— Alexandra Richards

Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don't mess…

— Peter Blegvad

Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the…

— Artur Schnabel

As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too.

— Ric Ocasek

Green Day is like sex, when were good, were really good, when were bad . . . were still pretty damn good.

— Mike Dirnt

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

— Sheena Easton

We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Anything that gets to the more emotional and dark side of music, I always enjoy.

— El-P

I don't move an inch then another (long day gone). I'm not stupid, without you or any distance from you is like…

— Travis Long

I think I get really into comfort music: '60s stuff, '50s stuff like Frankie Avalon. I love it - such simple songs,…

— Michael Benjamin Lerner

I believe that writers run out of material, I really do. I believe very strongly in the fact that when the natural…

— Brian Wilson

For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be…

— Macklemore

We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask…

— Gene Ween

Music is an extremely powerful art medium that can really affect people's emotions. It is amazing to realize how much communities can…

— Kathleen Hanna

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what…

— Kate Bush

“Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone and because of that, it discredits people,…

— Stephen Chbosky

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them.

— Big Bill Broonzy

I like just having that separation between my music life and my personal life.

— Blake Judd

I made my first complete song when I was 9.

— Ludacris

The older I get, the more interest I have in writing other kinds of music.

— Andy Biersack

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

— Melanie Fiona

When a song comes to you, you can't run around it.

— Connie Smith

I don't think a song should be put in a category.

— Billie Eilish

I don't know what else I would have done, because I love music too much.

— Julie Gold

I feel like, with an album, that's how you get to know an artist.

— Rich Brian

Music has always been a part of my life. I make music all the time.

— Janina Gavankar

I was always really into the music rather than the scene.

— Rhona Mitra

I love songs that don't do what you expect them to.

— Raye

“Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.”

— Yip Harburg

I'm a guy who's passionate about singing, but I can't sing for crap.

— Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.

— Mel Torme

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

— Creed Bratton