Song Quotes · Page 411

When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that…

— Huey Lewis

“The devil had not only acquired a monopoly of the good music and the good fun, but has of late acquired a…

— Ambrose Bierce

“He had braces, sported a black Limp Bizkit Tshirt. Limp Bizkit is a band that was popular at the time. If you’re…

— David Wong

Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex.

— Siobhan Fahey

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

— Chuck Eddy

I feel like I have two different selves, one for being a part of SHINee and one as a solo artist.

— Lee Tae-min

I always wished I had a song like that George Strait song, 'The Chair', 'cause it's basically just a guy trying to…

— Blake Shelton

My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

— Ben Harper

His desperation and misery swept her up like a storm capturing the sea. She turned her mind to even these feelings, because…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

I write really slowly, and my lines are really, really terrible all the time. It takes so long for me to get…

— Amanda Shires

There'll never be another 'Still Goin' In,' only because I'll never go through those points in my life again. But you can…

— Rich Homie Quan

A rock-and-roll group needed a name that fit criteria in three areas: It had to be great for a bowling team; it…

— Dion DiMucci

I suffer from depression. Severe cases of it. Not one case of depression, not a severe case, but severe cases of depression.…

— Kevin Gates

My songwriting has brought so much to me as an artist and my ability that I have as an artist has brought…

— Ahmad Balshe

I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could…

— Nigel Kennedy

It’s time for a streaming service that is centred around and driven by the artist community directly. Artists are prolific beyond a…

— Daniel Lanois

There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.

— will.i.am

A lot of my friends send me Snapchats of when they're in the club, and they're like, 'It's your song!'

— Zara Larsson

Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.

— Ritchie Blackmore

I know exactly where to put the microphone now to get a decent drum sound, and I know how to set my…

— Alex G

You don't know you've got a hit when you write it - because music is all subjective, you know?

— Jim Kerr

No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.

— Isadora Duncan

You get committed with what you put in songs. It made me wary of who and what I include, because that's there…

— Earl Sweatshirt

We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing…

— Rita Williams-Garcia

Sometimes it's not the song that makes you emotional it's the people and the and the things that come to your mind…

— Anonymous

Music made me feel like I was sexy. Music made me feel like I wasn't just a blind guy.

— Jose Feliciano

I like to listen to sad music when I’m sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry…

— Elizabeth Berg

I remember playing the guitar through the amplifier facing out the window of my house onto the street in the summer time…

— John Mayer

[P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song.

— Gordon Fee

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop,

— Donald Byrd

I was singing from the time I was 6 years old - at banquets and school shows back in Oklahoma.

— Anita Bryant

“You are my song, my dark blue dream Of doves, of winter's drowsy drone, And sleighs that slow and golden go Through…

— Velimir Khlebnikov

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

— Max Roach

Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain, I leave my heart open but it stays right here empty…

— Anonymous

“How can you understand the language of music, if you will not be an instrument?”—Zarost”

— Greg Hamerton

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?

— Rufus Wainwright

Sometimes when I'm writing lyrics, it's a very loose train of thought, and wherever that takes me, I let it flow.

— Rob Halford

There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which…

— Alex Turner

The Beatles created something that never trailed off. What a gift that was to their fans. If you're into the Beatles, you…

— Jerry Seinfeld

I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.

— Marianne Faithfull