Song Quotes · Page 506

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there

— Lucinda Williams

I wanted people to say that our music sounds like Porcupine Tree, not that it sounds like King Crimson.

— Steven Wilson

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.

— Erin McKeown

At the end of the day, I'm just trying to feel the music and be free - as free as possible.

— Jeff Gutt

The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?

— Ringo Starr

I really liked the Sex Pistols when they came out and I thought they had a lot of melody.

— Kim Shattuck

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want…

— Brian Eno

“By the summer of 1958, the nucleus of the future Beatles—Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison, two protons and a neutron—was formed.”

— Anonymous

I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were…

— Frederick Douglass

It's how I learned to play guitar - sitting with Led Zeppelin and Cheap Trick records, backing the needle up and learning…

— Tad Kubler

I always try to write the best song I can in the moment, and those songs are often going to end up…

— Ben Gibbard

I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with…

— Lana Del Rey

We have oral traditions in Mali, and songs are passed down and around this way. I think in the US you can…

— Vieux Farka Toure

I fell like a lot of times, when I write a song, it is coming from an introspective perspective that my faith…

— Matt Thiessen

There's this Ryan Gosling quote that I steal all the time - I watched an interview with him in Cannes - and…

— Emma Stone

I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt…

— Eric Clapton

These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.

— Al Yankovic

My mum didn't want me to really pursue music in the beginning, but I'm a classically trained guitarist because of her.

— Jax Jones

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

— John Mayall

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of…

— Suzanne Vega

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making…

— Jon Anderson

A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they…

— Phyllis Diller

I'm not a singer. I double-track my vocals. I'm just not secure in my voice. I can't do single-track - I sound…

— Cuco

I feel really personally connected to all of the songs, so stepping back is really hard.

— Hamilton Leithauser

“Peace is the music of every soul. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music”

— Amit Ray

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.

— Sharon Jones

Music, life, a lot of the things that we go through in the world, a lot of questions that we have about…

— Rakim

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

— Mark Hoppus

When I do the Led Zeppelin Experience I feel sort of responsible and it's a more nerve-wracking gig.

— Jason Bonham

So I guess I'm a fool, I'm a fool in love. But I'm willing to stay here, and bask in the glory…

— Rihanna

It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.

— Sloane Crosley

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

— Frank Ocean

When I was about 11 years old, I wrote a song with my dad. Then in high school I started more writing.

— Gabby Barrett

One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song!

— Woody Guthrie

I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times…

— Zooey Deschanel

If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I love characters songs and I love to fit into a story. I love singing through a character's journey.

— Katie Finneran

The standard of music has come down. There is only screaming and shouting in songs today and I don't want to sing…

— Kumar Sanu

You have to learn the dynamics of a song, and that takes time and practice. Sometimes, it takes years of playing it.

— Susan Tedeschi