Song Quotes · Page 493

I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my…

— Sevyn Streeter

I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the…

— Becky G

There is a certain... chivalry to the style of singing I normally do. Part of the fun for me will be to…

— Josh Groban

If the fans are liking what I've been doing, and they want to create a song for me, let's get on with…

— Fabinho

I hate it when you buy a record for the single and find out that is the only good song on the…

— Christian Burns

I'd love to have a Christmas classic under my belt. It's hard to write a Christmas song.

— Patty Smyth

It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument!

— Leonid Andreyev

I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.

— John Otto

The art of songwriting is just stumbling your way to something really special, and you don't know what you're going to write…

— Maren Morris

The Beatles are now history, and it would be unhealthy to try to make my way as a former member. I must…

— George Harrison

I don't really pursue writing songs for other people. I guess one of the things I always think about is a good…

— Craig Finn

“a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has…

— Sarah Dessen

I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was…

— Anonymous

The sacrifice musicians make, the results they achieve are fantastic. These are the big people as far as I am concerned. So…

— Bruno Sammartino

Dizzy Gillespie would come by, eating gumbo. It was crazy. My grandparents were friends with all of them. Dee Dee Bridgewater, all…

— Madlib

Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and…

— Anonymous

I wrote the album [Metals] in the fall. In about four months, I went from zero to finished. It usually takes forever.

— Feist

I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.

— Sarah McLachlan

Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use…

— Washed Out

If you can't play as good or as fast as me, just give up, sell your guitar on eBay and kill yourself.

— John Petrucci

Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

— Henry Rollins

I was lucky that my parents listened to really good music. My dad loved Kris Kristofferson.

— Ashley McBryde

At an independent label, you have to figure out inventive ways to promote without spending the money.

— Greg Laswell

We're not the kind of band who writes an order abundance of songs and picks from them, we usually write for the…

— John Petrucci

I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of…

— Joshua Bell

I try to imagine what the greatest song I could ever write would sound like, and then try to do it.

— Andrew W.K

I don't go about playing music differently. It changes my sleeping schedule and my drinking habits, that's what I like to say.

— Norah Jones

I always had a passion for music, and I feel like whatever people are passionate in, they're going to end up doing…

— Ice Spice

It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

— Adam Lambert

I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.

— Kim Carnes

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

— Julie Andrews

Releasing a record makes you realise what you want to do with music. It's not something you can understand before you do…

— Declan McKenna

With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words.

— Glen Campbell

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

— Nina Blackwood

I get to express myself in my songs more than I can ever do in real life or in talking to somebody.…

— Max Cavalera

I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.

— Jerry Cantrell

Of course, you're always going to be biased but Submarine was amazing and I'm not surprised that people liked it.

— Yasmin Paige

Listening to music on my laptop, its a relaxing feeling even thou music Relax you it also can bring allot of old…

— Maria Rivera

People always want to romanticize relationships within bands. Most of these relationships are based on music first.

— Dennis DeYoung

If somebody else wanted to do a song for McDonald's, that's up to them. I wouldn't do something like that, but whatever.

— Kurt Vile