Song Quotes · Page 490

I got a guitar when I was 14. I made really, really, really bad music as a teen. I learned to play…

— Hunx

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

— Confucius

If some of those people who wanted to ban Beethoven's music could hear the music that's being played today, wow, what would…

— Smokey Robinson

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans.

— Missy Elliott

I make music in my room, so it doesn't matter too much where I am, as long as I'm workin'.

— Snow Tha Product

I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

— Boy George

I have an obsession with making an album rather than a collection of tracks. For me it's like making a film -…

— Jon Hopkins

One of my friends said to me, "Oh yeah, of course you aren't writing." So I was like, "The next time you…

— Fiona Apple

Jazz music is all about performance, right? At least, to me, it's about the freedom of performance, the different inflections you do…

— Laufey

I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to…

— Bat for Lashes

The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the…

— Ed O'Brien

“I was in '78 recently," he announced. "I brought you this." He handed me a single by the Beatles. I didn't recognize…

— Jasper Fforde

Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and…

— Alan Jackson

A song was heard at Christmas To wake the midnight sky: A saviour's birth, and peace on earth, And praise to God…

— Timothy Dudley-Smith

Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that…

— Van Morrison

We really like having songs where we think the arrangement is just as important as the melodies, even though they're typically not.

— M. Shadows

'Barracuda' is very fun to play because it's like a galloping steed of a rock song.

— Nancy Wilson

You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can…

— James Wan

I think when you are doing a song you're trying to give people enough details that they connect.

— Craig Finn

That's the great thing about songwriting: You have that time to have perspective and look back and think about all the things…

— Gin Wigmore

Music brings people together. So my function in anything I do is to help bring people closer in.

— Gord Downie

Somewhere we went wrong. Our love is like a song, but you won't sing along. You've forgotten... About... Us..

— Jayden

I feel like the music should be a reflection of the culture and the world we're living in.

— Naughty Boy

I don't really concentrate on Urban AC or whatever. I don't concentrate on genres or how people section off songs for radio.

— B.J. The Chicago Kid

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

— Mick Jagger

I knew 'Hurt' way before Dad recorded it. In 1992, 'Downward Spiral' was one of my favorite albums.

— John Carter Cash

Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and I'm always going to want to do it.

— Naturi Naughton

You just hope to do music that people will embrace... music that will be cutting edge and will be recognized.

— Philip Bailey

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

— Michael Franti

Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major…

— Alex Ebert

I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning.

— Charlie Haden

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just…

— Bruno Mars

It's not easy to decide what kind of music should be our title song or which direction we should go in.

— Ok Taec-yeon

I hated old people as a young kid who thought he knew anything about punk rock. I just thought old people sucked…

— Anthony Green

With 'City of Black & White,' I wanted a record that would make you feel good, that would sort of take you…

— Mat Kearney

'My Church' - that was really the tipping point of me going from songwriter to artist.

— Maren Morris

When I hear music, I come alive. I feel electrified. I just get into the music and I start moving.

— Courtney Hadwin

I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the…

— Mick Ronson

'The First Time' is a song that I wrote by myself on my front porch, in real-time, as that situation was happening…

— Kelsea Ballerini