Song Quotes · Page 518

The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just…

— John Lennon

When you got a group like G-Unit... we sold millions of records, we got a lot of egos.

— Tony Yayo

I love rearranging and reimagining tunes, so I want my audience to enjoy hearing songs in a new way and make their…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

After much inner debate, I can safely proclaim that Mungo Jerry's 'In the Summertime' may, in fact, be the best song ever…

— Aesop Rock

There are good '59 Les Pauls, and there are not-so-good ones. There are ones that are just OK, that don't sustain as…

— Joe Bonamassa

Even before I got the record deal, I never really used singing to get girls. I always felt weird about that.

— Musiq Soulchild

People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection, and they memorized my songs in Spanish.

— Thalia

Gone are the days when the merit of a song was measured by the success of the movie.

— Gopi Sundar

Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre…

— Henry Rollins

I've already done two cover albums. I don't know, maybe it wouldn't be a good idea to do another, but I just…

— Petra Haden

“The ethos of East Berlin punk infused the city with a radical egalitarianism and a DIY approach to maintaining independence-to conjuring up…

— Tim Mohr

The good thing about having a hit record is you don't need too many people. Because now your record is on fire,…

— Young M.A

Like all music, the figured bass should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the recreation of…

— Johann Sebastian Bach

I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I…

— Emmy Rossum

After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted…

— Bob Dylan

I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I don't necessarily want to go on doing the…

— Paul Weller

I've always played a lot of Spanish music, but not as much as most guitarists do.

— Julian Bream

Black Axl Rose, move halfs and wholes. Come down to the jungle, just ask for Hov.

— Jay-Z

Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can…

— Martin Luther

The songs can be dark, but the adrenaline doesn't really change, regardless of what it is I'm singing, I still have the…

— Fernando Torres

I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.

— Ian MacKaye

Ud Jana' is a rock song, so we have used funky beats to give it a youthful appeal.

— Anu Malik

All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.

— Zachary Cole Smith

“Alex could name each member of every nineties alternative band ever formed. Kale could kick all their asses.”

— Jus Accardo

I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.

— Paul Bley

When you're a songwriter, you don't have control over which songs get heard and which ones don't.

— Ryan Hurd

“We have a piano in this house that exists solely for the purpose of supporting her photograph.”

— Chris Lynch

A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be…

— William Beckett

I sang in the glee club and church choir, but I never sang a solo. I never thought of myself as a…

— Jim Nabors

“..one's environment is a key to one's identity, but that environment, Papa Song's, was a key I had lost.”

— David Mitchell

When someone is on the phone telling me a story, I'm hearing the soundtrack that goes with it.

— Delilah

I'm a songwriter, actually. And when I say I'm a songwriter, I'm saying I can write songs for more than just myself.

— Yo Gotti

I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

— Adam Sandler

“For me it's not about money [about music]. It's about the experience of buying an album by a band you love. Something…

— Steven Battelle

The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.

— Mick Jagger

One song I do is 'The First Cut is the Deepest.' I try to remind people I wrote that song, not Rod…

— Cat Stevens

I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.

— Carolyn Mackler

I'm not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it's so that…

— Bad Bunny

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as…

— Franz Liszt

It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music…

— Claude Debussy