Song Quotes · Page 421

It's like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.

— Melanie Martinez

I got my first real six-string bought it at the five-and-dime. Played it till my fingers bled it was the summer of…

— Bryan Adams

Pulling like little pieces from things that we love is how we are formed as people, whether it's music or anything else.

— Gracie Abrams

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

— Glenn Gould

Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.

— Zach Condon

You know what, I am not gonna lie, that Taylor Swift 'Trouble' song? I can't resist that song. Her melodies are very…

— Jacob Artist

A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable…

— A. R. Rahman

When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.

— Evan Parker

Headbangers' are people who like heavy-metal music, which is performed by skinny men with huge hair who stomp around the stage, striking…

— Dave Barry

Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold…

— Gelsey Kirkland

My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I…

— Brendan Gleeson

The first time I heard Tom Waits, it was like everything just flipped. It was just this fascination with him. My cousin…

— Hozier

From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do.…

— Jimmy Page

When you love a song so much you have to sing, you know how you feel - it releases something in you…

— Bonnie Raitt

It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I…

— Bethany Cosentino

I love when people will say, "Oh, my songs are my children." I understand that, but I'm also not afraid to kill…

— Adam Granduciel

We straddle this world of pop music and this world of...I don't even know what it is, but we're very much in…

— Adam Levine

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

— Little Richard

There is so much restlessness and chaos in the society, and that's what music depicts.

— Liz Mitchell

Oh yes, much, because music is just something that comes to you. You don't question it.

— Bryan Ferry

Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as…

— Felix Mendelssohn

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

— Anonymous

As you're touring there are so many layers to a live show, it has always been important for me to have a…

— Jim Root

I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.

— Gary Allan

Songs of praise the angels sang, Heav'n with alleluias rang, when creation was begun, when God spoke and it was done.

— James Montgomery

I would explain myself as a singer, an artist... and most importantly I'm a part of Twice!

— Nayeon

I've grown a lot since my first record came out - even since 'Back II da Basics' was released in 2005.

— Ginuwine

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

— John Lennon

I believe that when we sing, we worship twice. We express our thoughts into words, and our words into song.

— Bo Sanchez

The music industry is a very rough industry. Many years ago, I think it was even rougher in the sense that a…

— Jennifer Holliday

I love everything from country to alternative to Blink-182 and '90s music to Dave Matthews.

— Spencer Boldman

When you create something you leave little crumbs of stuff that you've experienced or music that you've listened to.

— Panda Bear

Some of them take weeks, some of them take months, some of them take days. Each song is so incredibly different.

— Benson Boone

I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for…

— Kailash Kher

This is the way I wanna die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.

— Regina Spektor

I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a…

— Brett Dennen

My dad has been playing guitar basically all his life. He's sort of who got me into rock music.

— Dylan Minnette

From the first time I played with Lester Flatt, I sensed an extreme amount of history around me.

— Marty Stuart

Record stores are great because it's good to physically get your hands on the music instead of downloading. It's always better to…

— Nathan Followill

As an artist, you need to be true to yourself and free and not put yourself in a box that contradicts with…

— Yasmine Hamdan