Song Quotes · Page 440

What makes us so different from anything else is we're a rock band with a boy band fanbase.

— Luke Hemmings

I get my inspiration from a lot of bands actually. I really like AC/DC, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin and new bands. I like…

— Bea Miller

“Listening to music, I realized, was simply the pleasure of counting without realizing you were counting.”

— Matt Haig

The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing…

— Noel Redding

I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so…

— Alan Menken

Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can't.

— Dan Reynolds

I realized music is the most important thing to me and I love writing songs, and I think I had more to…

— Chad Gilbert

I love the music, I love who I am. So that is the driving force to make everything else work.

— Xzibit

Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar.…

— Joaquin Rodrigo

Life is like a piano. Each single key gives you a tune. A tune after tune gives you a melody. You don't…

— Islam Elnady

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was…

— Martin Luther

I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really…

— Nick Lowe

I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music. My definition of music is "organizing sound and silence into emotion,"…

— Stefon Harris

Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things,…

— Stewart Copeland

It's funny: when I started playing bass in 1984, you had guys like Paul Simonon fron the Clash, John Paul Jones, Lemmy,…

— Duff McKagan

I'm always scouring the universe for great old instruments from the '50s and early '60s. That's really, for me, the golden age…

— Geddy Lee

At this very early stage in my career, I want people to experience the music first and let it drive their imagination…

— Aubrie Sellers

The Beatles and the Stones had Elvis and Hollywood, but when it came to my generation America meant Richard Nixon and Vietnam.

— Mick Hucknall

There's political content in almost every song we've ever written on some level. It colors everything.

— Aaron Dessner

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff…

— Frank Ocean

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

— John Philip Sousa

With the second record there's a need to show that we weren't chancers, that we could play our instruments.

— James Righton

I need someone to give me a part where I play the piano so I can learn it. I would love that.

— Jude Law

My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.

— K. D. Lang

So alone, just me and an instrumental. They say my music ain't normal, must be something up with my mental.

— Kid Cudi

The ones I have got great necks; of course, all of the Fenders from that era are incredible.

— John Fogerty

A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space.

— Nikhil Banerjee

That crazy moment when you're thinking about a song when you turn on the radio and it's playing.

— Cuts And Scars

“Heavy Metal would not exist without Led Zeppelin, and if it did, it would suck.”

— Dave Grohl

Every song has a purpose, the song should either make us cry, or happy, or fall in love or make us dance.

— Devi Sri Prasad

Right after my mother died, my dad and I went into the studio and he recorded a song called 'I Found You…

— John Carter Cash

It takes so long to make a record and then it takes so long again to release it.

— Colin Greenwood

We once went to a '90s music quiz and we scored zero points. So I'm not so sure we're the '90s band…

— Ellie Rowsell

I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.

— Bruno Mars

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my…

— Charles Ives

We're proud of the position we're in in pop music - we feel like we're in a unique class.

— Russell Mael

I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.

— Tao Lin

What makes a song last is real content from a mind that is thinking a little bit harder about certain things. A…

— Billie Eilish

I have grown up singing Rabindra Sangeet and when I was 16, I started training in jazz.

— Jeet Gannguli

I despise - I hate - I'm terrified of karaoke, and I wish I wasn't because everybody I know who's awesome loves…

— Ben Feldman