Song Quotes · Page 527

I don't know if I could write a pop song without at least a little touch of bite in it, and it's…

— Perfume Genius

The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies. -Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

— Rachel Cohn

Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me.

— Gary Moore

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every…

— Charles Hazlewood

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form…

— Noel Gallagher

Whether I'm writing for myself or someone else, I'll always write a song that I would feel comfortable singing.

— Charli XCX

For me, music is about expressing the inexpressible, and as I get older, man, what I feel the need to express becomes…

— Devin Townsend

I've done eight grades of piano training from Trinity College and also done my sound engineering course.

— Anirudh Ravichander

Finishing a song is definitely the hardest part. It's, you know, you can polish it forever and then whittle it down into…

— Dan Deacon

I was with Nightwish for such a long time that I still feel the band as a part of myself. I was…

— Tarja Turunen

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on…

— Stan Getz

Perfection of rhythm, balanced perfection of rhythm. Everything in Nature is expressed by rhythmic waves of light. Every thought and action is…

— Walter Russell

'Europe '72' was a super influential record full of fantastic songs and amazing experimental musicianship. I always valued both of those aspects…

— Lee Ranaldo

Laughing so damn hard Crashed your dad's new car All the scars we share I promise, I swear Wherever you go, just…

— Broken

I find that music makes people just sit and listen, firstly. Then, they seem to interpret their own emotions with the music…

— Enya

I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the…

— Al Jarreau

I just want to reach a point where I have an opportunity to impact the entire world with one song.

— Kyle

I don't know if any genuine, meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a…

— Tom Waits

It is not easy for me to sing consonants, and I am sorry if I don't sing the 'S'.

— Jose Carreras

You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to…

— Diana Krall

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from,…

— James Mercer

Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.

— Alexis De Veaux

Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was…

— Odeya Rush

“He had a clear, lyrical voice and his songs remained in her ears long after the music had ended.”

— Hiroko Sherwin

I also have to support my speaking voice by sitting in a way that engages the diaphragm in the way I would…

— Lesley Garrett

I have a fondness for words. On that note, I don't consider my lyrics to be all that great. I like to…

— Anoop Menon

I used to take amphetamines until I realized that amphetamines didn't go with being a good singer.

— Roger Daltrey

I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.

— Trent Reznor

“I found in myself the heroine of every heartbreak song I had ever laughed at but played again.”

— Dorothy Allison

There's so much business that comes into play in the music industry, and honestly, it just got old to me.

— Sky Blu

We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.

— Lee Ranaldo

Music is my time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.

— Eminem

I was 29 or 30 when I felt sure of what I was doing, but not fully identifying as a songwriter until I was 37.

— David Berman

I've tried to use my love of music, and spoken word performance to create companion pieces for the book.

— Rich Ferguson

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Naturally, in a band or duo, it's really about compromise which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

— Curt Smith

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

— Jimmy Page

I have songs about growing up, about ex-relationships - ex-relationship, I should say.

— Shawn Mendes

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

— Franz Liszt

Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set…

— Gotye