Song Quotes · Page 516

If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same…

— Adam Jones

I am against vulgar lyrics. No one should feel ashamed while listening to a song.

— Jeet Gannguli

I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.

— Pat Metheny

My musical tastes - I'm always searching for new things. I know a lot of people say they listen to everything, but…

— Lzzy Hale

I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing.

— Martha Wainwright

I want to write music that actually matters and to be able to make a difference through song.

— Jen Ledger

I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware.

— Yukimi Nagano

What's the last thing a drummer says in a band: Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?

— Dave Grohl

If you're going through a difficult time, and there's a piece of music that speaks to you - be it musically or…

— Ben Gibbard

Basically, every band that makes it has some dude with some sense of business. I don't know if our band would've been…

— Paul Banks

I'm not the creative one. I know that. If Rory Storm hadn't come along... and then The Beatles... I would have continued…

— Ringo Starr

The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a…

— Sufjan Stevens

“I find solace in a serenade the words of a stranger bringing comfort through the lines of a song, The pain intertwined…

— Liz Newman

“I discovered the blues from the English blues and then I wondered where all this stuff was coming from,” Mogg told Todd…

— Neil Daniels

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Jungle's sound-world constitutes a sort of abstract social realism; when I listen to techstep, the beats sound like collapsing (new) buildings and…

— Simon Reynolds

I'd rather play in front of people who wouldn't listen to Slayer. That to me, is more like, 'Hey, listen to us.'

— Jeff Hanneman

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but its good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

— Andy Gibb

And she finally stopped playing their song, when she realized she was dancing alone.

— Boris Pasternak

Every now and then, a lot of bands doing the same kind of music will organically sprout up at once.

— Kathy Valentine

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

— Beck

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

— Steve Vai

Doom hits the same frequencies that polytonic Buddhist chanting does, which is very hypnotic and makes time relative when listening.

— Mike Scheidt

“That's the thing about music. You get to make it mean whatever you need it to mean.”

— Jessica Park

I think that the music industry is such an interesting place, and there are so many situations that people don't know about.

— Bebe Rexha

There are so many songs I've recorded, only to hear other people singing them. It happens all the time.

— Leona Lewis

I'm very influenced by the work of George Martin and the string arrangements that he did for the Beatles.

— Tom Kitt

It's like swimmin' without warmin' up, yuo know what I mean? So [cackles] we use the drum machine, and we take it…

— Miles Davis

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

— Bernard Arnault

I wanted to put a song out there to let people know who I was and, at the same time, help me…

— Morgan Wallen

Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron…

— Eddie Trunk

I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a…

— Angel Olsen

I was big into grunge, like Nirvana and Hole, when I was younger, which has been a really huge inspiration because of…

— Tove Lo

I listen to a lot of singers, because I find phrasing to be one of the most essential elements of playing.

— Stefon Harris

The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the…

— Ariel Rechtshaid

“You, a human being, who possess an animal’s mind, please listen to my song. Normally”

— Kelsang Gyatso

People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can…

— Pierre Schaeffer

Oasis allowed me to use lyrics from 'Wonderwall,' so I'm super gassed to re-version the track and get it to a new…

— Bugzy Malone

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

— Victoria Wood

The songs I had are withered Or vanished clean. Yet there are bright tracks Where I have been.

— Ivor Gurney