Song Quotes · Page 438

When pop and rock were taking over from jazz, and Sinatra was covering a Beatles song, it was all very new. I…

— Michael Buble

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.

— Wes Montgomery

Writing a song is about inhabiting a specific frame of mind and conjuring a mood, a character, an entire vision.

— The-Dream

The misunderstanding out there is that we are a 'hard rock' band or a 'heavy metal' band. We've only ever been a…

— Angus Young

Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

— Keith Richards

They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being…

— Buddy Rich

There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn't made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn't yet.

— Kami Garcia

The song of your soul is longing to be sung. Let your own essence express itself freely.

— Brandon Bays

Women have a natural tendency to want to nurture and take care of men. You always think that the guy is going…

— Emma Watson

Nirvana really touched me as a teenager and started making me pay attention to music as a participatory thing that I could…

— Phil Elvrum

Blink was pretty good, but they only had three members and Travis is arguably the most recognizable one now. And I wonder…

— Jesse Rutherford

I am stupidly passionate about music; it has become a bit of drug. I buy tons of CDs and spend days listening…

— Jacques Villeneuve

When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My…

— Ellie Goulding

“Those lyrics tell the story Dahlia, our story. I wrote that song five years ago and even now when I sing it,…

— Kim Karr

I tend to want to form bands and then create new music within them. Queen was an exception, and we joined forces…

— Paul Rodgers

Labels never made Mobb Deep, Mobb Deep made the labels. We was always poppin'. Even if we ain't had a record deal,…

— Mobb Deep

“Her songwriting process begins with her sitting down and saying to herself "Okay, who is this about? and what would I say…

— Jessica Stewart

Music had always been a kind of anchor for me. But I didn't write my first song till I was 35.

— Mary Gauthier

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

— Yo-Yo Ma

“(In reply to: Which is more important, the sound or the music?) 'Both equal, some people don't care about words but for…

— Steven Battelle

When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.

— Robert Crumb

From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Occasionally, you get a nice surprise when someone covers your song in an extraordinary way.

— John Barry

For each album, I let the music that I love at that point in my life be my guide.

— Miranda Lambert

I don't pamper my voice. It's part of my body. If my body is rested and healthy, my voice is rested and…

— Neil Diamond

But anyway I think you're bionic And I don't think you're beautiful, I think you're beyond it

— Lil Wayne

It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for…

— Thurston Moore

I think the music I listen to is always therapeutic. It allows me to get my mind to another place and just…

— Jalen Hurts

I feel like it is only music where people are like, "You can't do this for other people, you have to do…

— Thomston

I really connect with music that has a point, that's not just a heavy riff and cool sounds. I always like it…

— Piggy D

We knew we were tight and good, but we didn't know we were going to be the band to help each generation…

— John Densmore

Listen closely to the songs I play, because the lyrics speak the words I fail to say.

— Anonymous

The reality is not exactly what the song started out to be, but it's not a bad song.

— Robert James Waller

She like a beat that makes me wanna grab the mic. She like the lyrics that I wanna recite.

— Will I Am

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

— Anonymous

I sort of disbanded the DC5 in 1970. I decided to call it a day when we were still selling records.

— Dave Clark

Sound is the basis vibration of the universe All those little vortices may get sent going the other way. Sound is really…

— Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

— John Kao

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

— Nile Rodgers

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

— Dizzy Gillespie