Song Quotes · Page 468

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing…

— Rick Danko

Time crawls on when you're waiting for the song to start so dance along to the beat of your heart - The…

— Anonymous

When I first got signed, I used to literally pick up a pen and pad. Write bars in my notes, even whole…

— Jeremih

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

— Keren Ann

I think my favorite Rolling Stones song is "No Expectations." I always think and talk through songs.

— Ragnar Kjartansson

There's always a message in my music, you just gotta be able to just sit there and be open-minded.

— E-40

I love finding songs, going through them, tearing them apart, and seeing if I can find anything wrong with them.

— Randy Travis

During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed…

— Geezer Butler

About 25 years ago, when I was 15, I wrote a song called 'Indradhanush', which speaks about the seven colours, equating each…

— Amit Trivedi

What people fail to realize is that any album we did, really, 90 percent of it reflected the songs people brought in.…

— Dennis DeYoung

I have received a great deal of benefit from the simple yet difficult practice of learning to stop the internal voice in…

— Edwin Catmull

“Bing Crosby and those fellows promised to love deeper than the ocean and higher than the stars for eternity. But who can…

— Sam Torode

I think it was Tommy who told me, 'When your song is called 'XYZ' or whatever, every line has got to make…

— Merle Haggard

I've always been a fan of the band setting. I've always been a believer in bands, and I've always been in bands.…

— Frank Iero

“Summertime, I think, is a collective unconscious. We all remember the notes that made up the song of the ice-cream man; we…

— Jodi Picoult

If I'm being an idealist, I would say it's extremely fulfilling to know that I had a part in creating music that…

— JP Saxe

Music is my life… the lyrics are my story... for each time I hear the beats, I begin to live again

— Mercy Pheona

We have high expectations and a high level of standard we try to reach in everything we do. Ideas get through if…

— James Righton

I was in the back of the car with my girlfriend, the Rascals came on the radio and I realized their song…

— Steven Van Zandt

I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.

— Kid Rock

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a…

— Jimmy Cliff

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

— James Blunt

“Don't die with your music still in you, play your music unencumbered. Should your guitar remain unstrung?”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

The song is very light-hearted, it's just a bit of fun. For a couple of tracks [the rest of the band] let…

— Brendon Urie

My third song I put out, it got a lot of shares on Facebook. I'm like 'OK, they digging it.'

— GloRilla

Oberst is one of those musicians that some people hate in a visceral, biological way.

— Ben Dolnick

Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention…

— Melissa Manchester

I was once sitting on a tube, and someone was playing my song so loudly through their ear phones next to me.…

— Sam Smith

I think that because I have so many different influences, and that shows in my music, that different people can connect with…

— Aubrie Sellers

Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to…

— Anton Webern

I feel really proud of the work I did at Apple Music, and I don't take anything away from it that's negative…

— Bozoma Saint John

It's weird talking about the album as a living being with its own thoughts and direction, especially if you're the one creating…

— Jens Lekman

I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.

— Kurt Weill

It was all part of being a Beatle, really: just getting lugged around and thrust into rooms full of press men taking…

— George Harrison

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect…

— Kurt Cobain

I try to take the foundations of what music is and add some type of twist to it.

— Jay IDK

There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

As a child actor, I had sung a song in the Bengali film 'Bhagyadebata' but it wasn't kept in the final edit.

— Soham Chakraborty

I express myself through song when I can't let people in on my thoughts otherwise. I need the creative process.

— Iman Shumpert

No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

— R. Kelly