Song Quotes · Page 517

You learn alot about people when you listen to the songs that mean something to them

— Anonymous

Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.

— Victor Borge

But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to…

— Paula Cole

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there.…

— Kimbra

If you're going to make music, you need to find the context in which it might be enjoyed.

— The Irresistible Force

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words…

— Glenn Danzig

I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one…

— Jacob Artist

People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.

— Ginger Baker

I'm way down the scale in terms of technical ability, ... But my emotional connection is very apparent. A lot of jazz…

— Jamie Cullum

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and…

— Sonny Rollins

“You really are my lucky charm, Val. It’s not simply a song; you know it’s exactly how I feel about you. I…

— Roberta Capizzi

That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully…

— Jon Landau

Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest…

— Nadia Boulanger

The lyrics tend to fascinate people, but for me, when I listen to a record I don't always latch on to the…

— Elizabeth Fraser

“Nowadays, people no longer know Beethoven's Ninth from concerts, but form the for lines of the 'Ode to Joy' that they hear…

— Milan Kundera

It's interesting to watch where music is going next. Isn't it always rotating? It is so weird how disposable pop music is,…

— Gwen Stefani

I grew up listening pretty much just to pop music. But the older I've gotten, the more varied my musical tastes have…

— Perez Hilton

I use the aid of technology while running through songs. Visual tuners and feeling the vibrations through the floor to keep time.

— Mandy Harvey

I consider myself a songwriter... I guess the business end is my songs and the fun part is playing the guitar.

— J. J. Cale

'Don't Even Trip' gave me a chance to really like put some swag on a song. I put the sauce on it.

— Tee Grizzley

A lot of songwriters have written about soldiers and war, but very few have written with them.

— Mary Gauthier

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

— Leon Bridges

I don't talk with people about how I am feeling - I just usually write a song about it.

— Soccer Mommy

I just don't want to stay focused on music. I want to branch off and do other things.

— Trina

Nothing matches the sheer euphoria of discovering a new melody or a new batch of chords that just come out of nowhere.

— Kevin Parker

Songwriting I think, or any art form, the inspiration comes from your personal life or it can be from politics or region…

— Curt Smith

I worked out the keyboard parts on the progressive rock classic 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' and somehow managed to play…

— Paul Gilbert

With the first album, there was a lot of angst. I was very naive. I thought I was on top of the…

— Paolo Nutini

I love making music and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think that's what people are going…

— Carrie Underwood

Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from.

— Robert Hilburn

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

— Justin Timberlake

It's not that the words of the song are different; I just heard it for the first time with my heart, instead…

— S Riley

I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall…

— Charles Spurgeon

I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being…

— Kim Gordon

Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative…

— Jerry Harrison

You don't have to work with everybody and be on songs with everybody just to make it.

— Rich the Kid

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

— Mel Torme

I met Les Paul when I was about 5. I was taken to see him perform and the place was sold out,…

— Steve Miller

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

— David Lee Roth