Song Quotes · Page 486

We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by…

— Glenn Miller

I always felt that's why people buy records anyhow is because they get that vicarious excitement and thrill that they don't get…

— Cosimo Matassa

I wanted people to connect with the lyrics, even if it's in some weird way, because they're all personal.

— George Clarke

Like our title song “Clap”, I want to become a singer that receive the applause from all people.

— L.Joe

A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of…

— Johnny Cash

I've never seen Key think about how he was going to act on a song. He just is whoever he is that…

— Kenny Beats

Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all…

— Lewis Thomas

Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.

— Yael Naim

[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in…

— Quentin S. Crisp

My advice to women who habitually gravitate toward musicians is that they learn how to play an instrument and start making music…

— Julie Klausner

You don't need to be at a major, not at all. Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the…

— Joe Budden

I've always liked 'We All Try,' by Frank Ocean, I think that song is perfect. I just love it. He put me…

— Jesse Rutherford

God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That’s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and…

— Andrew Peterson

Fanzines are very important for sharing stuff that you're in to, with the readers and listeners. We met through the love of…

— Faris Badwan

I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of…

— Bryan Adams

Remixes, earlier, would just be about changing the beats and making something that can be played in the club. But I didn't…

— Tanishk Bagchi

If you don't have a good rhythm section, your band is toast; you're a bar band. Good rhythm section, you've got a…

— Duff McKagan

Music should come from the heart. It should happen. That should be automatic, and if you labour on creating music, it will…

— Ilaiyaraaja

We were always broke and always complaining about something and music came and gave us a reason. That's why we started Sepultura.

— Max Cavalera

I think there are more religious overtones in music because these artists want to be connected to greatness. What is greater or…

— Andy Mineo

The band changes one guy, sometimes the whole damn thing changes - look what happened when I joined Van Halen.

— Michael Anthony

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the…

— Elton John

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

— Charles Hazlewood

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

— Aldous Huxley

When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.

— Joe Satriani

What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.

— Robert Wyatt

If you look at the big rock hits I've had - 'High on Emotion,' for example - the songs I write have…

— Chris de Burgh

Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker.

— William Green

I have experimented with various genres of music, whether its rock, pop, slow songs, etc.

— Himesh Reshammiya

If you get on the radio, people hear it, they buy the record. If you get on Spotify playlist nowadays, people hear…

— Doug Walters

Lyrical content is very important to me. I'm always trying to make sure the lyrics and music complement each other perfectly.

— Matt Smith

I just want to write songs in my little corner. And I still love music, I've not been worn down by cynicism.

— Mick Hucknall

Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.

— George Etherege

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man in the moon.

— Harry Chapin

One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to…

— Marilyn vos Savant

I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.

— Hamilton Leithauser

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

— Kenny Werner

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

— Tori Amos

I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.

— Moby

Under-sung vocals can be very sexy because of the intimacy, but they can be just as heartbreaking for the same reason.

— Justin Tranter