Song Quotes · Page 458

It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.

— Keith Richards

You know, I've written many of my songs while driving - which is against the law in many cases.

— Chuck D

'Allegiance' is pretty much a book musical. You know, people talk and then they burst out into song.

— Lea Salonga

I have country songs, I have rock songs, I have songs that don't even sound like songs.

— Riff Raff

In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

— Yoko Ono

Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just…

— Chris Isaak

Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like…

— Eddie Van Halen

“I know that whenever I see some goon energetically mouthing the words to a song I can't hear, I assume the worst:…

— John Sellers

We discovered there were three very specific ways of being in the Strokes. One was in the studio, one was in the…

— Fab Moretti

I don't make my music for just me or a few people. Hopefully everybody that makes music wants to be embraced by…

— Bun B

It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than…

— Courtney Love

I know the 4Ps (Planning, Priority, Perspective and Patience), and I believe that this knowledge sets me apart from others, as I…

— Guru Randhawa

My favorite track from the album Independent is Hold On. Everyone at some point fights battles or has struggles, and in moments…

— Mya

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe -…

— Jackson Browne

God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us…

— Khalil Gibran

I always try to be ironistic in everything I do. I love people who understand humor and who live through humor. So,…

— Albert Kuvezin

Many of my songs just come together in quatrains because that's how a hymn goes.

— Julien Baker

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly,…

— Olivier Messiaen

Singing is my favorite thing to do. One day, I hope to get signed to a record label.

— Selah Louise Marley

I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what…

— Tyler Farr

A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of…

— Gian Carlo Menotti

I vividly remember D'Angelo's 'How Does it Feel?' as a song I listened to around the time I came out.

— Jonathan Van Ness

...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

— Guy de Maupassant

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs…

— Keith Urban

I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is…

— Tom DeLonge

I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I…

— Tommy Lee

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, insiration, feeling, and understanding.

— Willie Dixon

My most favorite entrance music of all time... it's that, "You're my obsession, you're my obsession" song [Animotion's "Obsession"].

— Joseph Bruce

The first time you hear a song you might not remember the words, but you can go to the record store and…

— James Ingram

I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

— Imelda May

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.

— Tony Levin

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

— Abbie Cornish

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a…

— John Deacon

As the day gives way to night i miss you having by my side my heart is singing the song to say…

— Babloo

Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.

— David Byrne

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

— Mark Knopfler

I want to eventually get to a point where I can make all types of music for every type of crowd.

— Dave East

A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than…

— Sebastian Bach

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set…

— Mark Twain

If you've never heard a piece of Mozart, then Mozart could sound scary or confusing, so it's all about learning.

— Michael Arden