Song Quotes · Page 522

I want to change peoples' minds about music, I want to bring the really brutal experimental stuff to peoples' attention.

— Squarepusher

Music controls moods and accents life's moments. It's necessary for every situation.

— Chuck Inglish

I ain't all about the Benjamins, I'm about trying to live a decent life as a decent human being, and make some…

— Everlast

“So one might say that music killed him, that he was felled by music. It's a theory. String theory.”

— Emma Richler

Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies.

— Glen Hirshberg

The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is…

— Steven Van Zandt

I got the type of voice where I can hit a tone if I want, but I ain't trying to be Fetty…

— Kodak Black

I remember the first album I really completely geeked out over was The Shins' 'Wincing The Night Away.' That album was everything…

— Clairo

There's still value in a CD, even if it's just nostalgic. People are still willing to pay. But it can't compare to…

— J. Cole

Part of the shabbiness of our culture, if indeed it is shabby, is that it doesn't seem to prepare people. With all…

— Leonard Cohen

I think, any of your audition songs should really be a song that you are so confident with and can pull out…

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

“done with the planets and the hills and the trees and the oceans and the lesser beasts. The cliffs that bound existence…

— Neil Gaiman

I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La…

— Kim Gordon

Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes…

— Anthony Davis

So I always liked to sing, and apparently when I was about four or five I also started to be attracted to…

— Vienna Teng

I have so many great friends, so many great memories, so many great pictures, so many great songs, so many great relationships…

— Nadine Coyle

I need some time and space to make sure I'm on the right track with myself and playing music I want to…

— Ben Howard

I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.

— Joel Madden

Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it…

— Julian Cope

I was onstage singing with Luke Bryan, and he started singing a song that we hadn't rehearsed. Both Luke and myself just…

— Brett Eldredge

I'm a person. I go through ups and downs... so that's what I express in music, who I am truly.

— Sky Blu

The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it.

— Deborah Cox

I believe that music can encourage you to move on from painful events. It helps to make a scar fade.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I've certainly developed as a vocalist. I find my early recordings very difficult to listen to.

— Michael Feinstein

The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.

— Sydney Carter

I play a lot chamber music.As for something that's hard for me to play, before I leave this Earth I'm hoping to…

— Condoleezza Rice

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way…

— Robert Motherwell

Rock and roll has become entertainment that just says what the consumer wants to hear. There's no more edge or rebellion that…

— Sonny Sandoval

I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things…

— R. Kelly

In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation... the essence of minstrel.

— John Trudell

I think the music that speaks to me the most is music that is personal. And that's the music that I'm trying…

— Rostam Batmanglij

I know who Michael Jackson is, I know who Prince is, I know the Isley Brothers, all that. Still, I got my…

— Playboi Carti

Moments of unexpected sweetness happen when romance enters, which always happens in songs - if just for a split second.

— Dan Bejar

I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar…

— Jesse Harris

Either I'm really into the organizing, or I'm really into the music. As I've been going, I've been able to figure out…

— Boots Riley

When I started learning the violin, my choir teacher thought I could sing. But when I first got on stage, I froze!

— Momina Mustehsan

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

— Andrew Bird

“I was listening to the radio the other day in California and one of our songs came on and I jumped because…

— Henry Rollins

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

— Hunter Hayes

This is a song called 'The Kill.' But don't be scared, it's a nice song. About losing your mind.

— Jared Leto