Song Quotes · Page 414

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

— Ben Kingsley

I'm just trying to make the kind of music that I'd listen to as a teenager and forget about all my problems.

— Kim Petras

No albums are better or worse than each other, and they're all important to our legacy and our story.

— Shawn Crahan

Around middle school I studied jazz guitar and ended up playing in a jazz band for a bit. But, after high school,…

— Mike Tucker

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

— Billy Sherwood

For the majority of the time, the songs I like, other people seem to like, so that's good.

— Stefflon Don

People say, You've gotta go on, man, otherwise all those kids, they'll be finished, they'll have nothing to live for. That's rock…

— Pete Townshend

You must take care of your family, respect the music, and work intensely. Health and family come first, and then you can…

— Andris Nelsons

There's always a tension between wanting to write a really concise, instant gratification type song that gets under your skin the first…

— Andrew Bird

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just…

— Graham Parker

If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it…

— Rob Sheffield

If I found out some gal was trying to steal my guy, I'd want to give her a black eye! Instead, I…

— Loretta Lynn

Because I was independent for such a long time, and I was always just feeding my fans - every month, I'd be…

— Tink

Since Moses was in Egypt land, Gods people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A…

— Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It…

— Bryn Terfel

I was the first records editor at Rolling Stone, and there were no rules. There was nothing to fall back on as…

— Greil Marcus

I cannot work on a Revamp album when I tour with Nightwish. And I cannot do any Nightwish stuff when I'm touring…

— Floor Jansen

“Success in the music industry isn’t something that you wait for or hope for. It is something that you create, day after…

— Simon S. Tam

I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in…

— Lauren Mayberry

If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life.

— Taylor Swift

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

— Richie Sambora

When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in…

— Noel Fisher

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

— Jacques Barzun

I'm just going to do music and when I feel like I've gotten enough music to put an album together then that's…

— Belly

Snow Tha Product was dope. She wanted me on a song, so I did it for her. I ain't charge her nothing.

— Tech N9ne

Technically, a Ghost song could just be piano and vocals, but it could also be full, pounding, heavy-thrashing hard rock.

— Tobias Forge

I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.

— Cameron Crowe

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

— Olly Alexander

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

— J. Cole

We just thought that bands from the U.S. in general were just really boring, and they didn't represent what we felt pop…

— Ron Mael

When kids were busy playing at the age of 11, I was singing for the heroine of 'Shastra.'

— Sunidhi Chauhan

For the first 12 years of recording I would finish the album, then on the day it came out I'd never hear…

— David Berman

My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable. ...so the listener becomes really invested in the story…

— Kristian Bush

For me, it's always just about playing the song and recording it and giving it what it needs as a song.

— Passenger

I didn't ask to be a musician, but I see the responsibility of it and I am grateful for it.

— Melody Gardot

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Marshall is supposed to be 200 watts, but mine's never worked right; it peaks out at 80.

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

— Damon Albarn

I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a song.

— Leah LaBelle

10 million albums sold I aint gotta brag, Disrespect my girl or my kids and get a bodybag.

— The Game