Song Quotes · Page 424

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

— Ed Kowalczyk

There's a happy medium to everything, even with powerhouse singers. You don't have to belt it out all the time. You don't…

— Gabby Barrett

A lot of my songs are personal and about me being 16 and having guys break my heart and feeling like it's…

— Avril Lavigne

Every artist knows the songs that come out naturally, almost effortlessly, are the songs that do the most.

— Mod Sun

The streets buy records, but they don't really buy records in incredible numbers.

— Mannie Fresh

I'm here to be lovesick, broke and drifting, writing heartache songs and singing about pain and misery and depression, with a few…

— Hank Williams III

There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.

— Richard Morris

Jane Monheit is skyrocketing up the jazz charts. By next year, we won't be able to get her.

— Jane Monheit

I always have melodies flowing in my head - whether I'm just at home, at the mall, at a restaurant or wherever.…

— Manika

Listen to the triple fugue in 'Magnificat' - the first subject is seven voices, the second one has 52 different voices, the…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I dont really think we had any real revelation when we were a couple 14 and 15-year-old kids about the bands name.…

— Gym Class Heroes

On 'Love Letters' I focused exclusively on sung music, creating a collection of songs that directly address heartbreak and its ensuing emotions…

— Anoushka Shankar

We have people come up to us all the time in meet-and-greets saying, 'Thank you so much for writing that, because I…

— Maddie Marlow

I really love the fact that instrumental music can have you do your own inner-movies or your own visuals to the sound.…

— Trentemøller

Billie doesn't actually like recording sessions at all. We like making music together. She doesn't like going to some big studio and…

— Finneas

When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run…

— David Crosby

Being in a band is being punk, no matter what. You have to dedicate your life to it.

— Charlotte Caffey

I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense.

— Paul Lansky

“Heaven is all around us. All we need is perception; to extol the melodies of Nature's orchestra.”

— Anurag Shourie

I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

— Richie Sambora

Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, and helped change and develop my taste.

— Seymour Stein

He made me mess the song up when I looked at him... We can show the kids the tape and say, "Look,…

— Edie Brickell

If we don't put some acting in a dance song, no one would be able to dance on it.

— Asha Bhosle

My mom's an art teacher, so I always had music in the house. She always had records, and I was mesmerized by…

— DJ Premier

I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita,…

— Hiromi

Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear…

— Judy Collins

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

— Evan Dando

In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how…

— Bjork

“I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs, Yet, like a tree, endure the shift of things.”

— Theodore Roethke

These girls wouldn't let just anybody spew on their vital parts, they wanted a guy from a group with a big hit…

— Frank Zappa

Songs give you incredible opportunity to convey a tremendous amount in a relatively short period of time.

— Chris Meledandri

There was a time that I was The Drifter in NXT, and I did not want to break my guitar because that…

— Elias

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

— Erykah Badu

Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.

— Tyler, The Creator

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

— Marc Ribot

When a song came on the radio that I wanted to learn, my mother would quickly write down the lyrics for me.…

— Kiran Ahluwalia

I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the…

— Margaret Cho

I guess now I view music as my career. I want to do it forever, regardless of whether or not it's my…

— Kevin Morby

I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being…

— Jack London

Troubled times do call for troubled songs, songs that unsettle our souls and our spirits unapologetically.

— Tavis Smiley