Song Quotes · Page 494

I get mad about something, and then I have this melody in my head, and then afterwards, the lyrics come.

— Alice Merton

Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time.

— Deborah Cox

“There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it.”

— Noam Shpancer

I'm about a 20-handicapper with a guitar. I can only play three songs on my own album. I did the lyrics, not…

— John Daly

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

— Andrew Bird

Once you have an established song, you can really come out of your shell and experiment with the sound you want to…

— Post Malone

I listen to a lot of music. But I definitely haven't looked at an artist and like thought I want to have…

— Melanie Martinez

When an actor sings a song, he will be able to bring forth the emotion in it much better than a playback…

— Gopi Sundar

I don't think I'm unique or that I'm trying to do something unique, but I feel it is something I would like…

— Rokia Traore

People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at…

— Janelle Monae

It's hard to imagine the whole punk movement without The Velvet Underground. I toured with them when they did their reunion tour,…

— Dean Wareham

There has been times when we've had really great commercial success in various parts of the world. And the sensibility is something…

— Ron Mael

“Where did you hear that song?" I ask her without sitting up. "From the HC," she says, blushing. "A little girl sang…

— Pierce Brown

My favorite band of all time is The Clash. The thing I love about The Clash is they started out as guys…

— Michael Franti

“For all karaoke freaks around the nation, “Total Eclipse of the Heart” is one of those sacred anthems. It’s the kind of…

— Rob Sheffield

I open up a big cabinet, and I have a collection of helmits. I put on the different helmets, and I take…

— Beck Hansen

I just started singing with everything I had, and it worked. My voice just was there.

— Benson Boone

It's deep-rooted, the music of being young and dumb, It's never muted, in fact, it's much louder where I'm from.

— Kendrick Lamar

Obviously, for Geffen, if it wasn't for us, it's quite possible that bands like Nirvana or Beck would not be on the…

— Lee Ranaldo

If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.

— Zara Larsson

A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit

— Phil Ochs

“Jace Herondale plays the piano very well.” “And he knows it.” “That sounds like a Herondale.” Tessa laughed.”

— Cassandra Clare

Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.

— Robert Fulghum

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that…

— Norah Jones

Music has always been one of my life's greatest passions - shaping, influencing and motivating me on a daily basis.

— Haim Saban

Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.

— Chip Esten

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.

— David R. Brower

There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.

— Mark Hoppus

The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?

— Billy Preston

I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.

— John Mellencamp

Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and guys like Cat…

— Dave Mustaine

“The silence must be longer. This music is about the silence. The sounds are there to surround the silence.”

— Arvo Pärt

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

— Alison Krauss

If you take care of the music first, and then add elements of a good show, then it makes for a good…

— Steve Harris

Surround yourself with people who allow you the time to really discover what kind of a musician you truly are.

— Jack Savoretti

I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through.

— Katy Perry

The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music.

— Girl Talk

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.

— Keith Richards

[Kino] worked really well as a song title, and to build into a lyric, and also how we embraced mulit-media at the…

— Stephen Mallinder

I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass. It…

— Stephen Bruner