Song Quotes · Page 535

There is nothing like the buzz of singing one of your songs during a show and hearing your fans singing with you.

— Dove Cameron

All the songs are good, but 'Press Your Number' was fixed to be my favorite song from the beginning.

— Lee Tae-min

Music is such a balm. Always has been. It's such a heartbeat, like blood thrumming through the womb. That's why music appeals…

— Al Jarreau

To produce a proper album, you have to be in the studio and collaborate with all your singers. It takes a lot…

— Hardwell

That's just the music industry. They always want you to write something like the one that was popular.

— Benji Madden

Sufis were always spreading love with their music, and if some kind of extremism is a threat to it, it is a…

— Adnan Sami

I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.

— Leontyne Price

People don't have to understand a language to understand the emotion and sentiment behind a song.

— Laura Jane Grace

Soundgarden was incredibly democratic, and I was really proud of that. I felt like we got along better than most bands we…

— Chris Cornell

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a…

— Taylor Swift

Sometimes I'll have words or concepts written down before I have any type of music or anything. So when I have that,…

— Giveon

You can approach the guitar like a voice. That's the best way of looking at it. If you are singing, you can't…

— John Petrucci

I'm somebody who grew up listening to a lot of musical theater, so getting to finally write musical theater songs and songs…

— Sara Bareilles

That’s why I hate to take credit for the songs I’ve written. I feel that somewhere, someplace, it’s been done and I’m…

— Michael Jackson

And it's been a process of digging through the songs and trying to make them born on stage again. I think they…

— Justin Vernon

The Doctor: Doctor Song, you've got that face on again. River: What face? The Doctor: The "He's hot when he's clever" face.…

— Steven Moffat

Every single song I write has to feel like it has a beginning, middle, and end, like a movie or a short…

— Grace Potter

My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But…

— Analeigh Tipton

Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.

— Zac Goldsmith

If singing a couple of songs in a benefit will help keep the Festival alive and known, well, how can I say…

— Stephanie D'Abruzzo

It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can…

— Bill Frisell

Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.

— Isaac Hanson

“I've been trying to start a garage band for over a decade now, but father won't move his car.”

— Jarod Kintz

When we make a record, we don't discuss how we are planning on doing it. It's a very natural and organic growth.

— Davey Havok

Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.

— Yann Tiersen

Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical…music is under two signs, the stars and the wine

— Edgard Varese

“Sexuality and anger are often written with the same note, but never on the same line, because they don’t make music together.”

— Sibyl von der Schulenburg

B.B. King wanted people to carry the torch. He wanted people to keep that music alive, and he would talk about it.

— Derek Trucks

Many great composers have died in poverty. I have not faced hardships, like having to struggle for food, thanks to reasonable producers.

— Ilaiyaraaja

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

— Merle Haggard

I don't know where I belong, I don't know where I went wrong, but I can write a song.

— Anonymous

The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that…

— Vik Muniz

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

— Steve Earle

Nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what the Sex Pistols were able to do in their time.

— Julien Temple

I really feel that I've been unjustly exorcised from the story of psychedelic music.

— Genesis P-Orridge

I feel like music is just a platform and foundation just to be able to explore and see what's outside of it.

— Jeremih

Once a song comes out, these songs aren't mine. They're everybody's. So there you go.

— Mac DeMarco

I love when people cover songs that are familiar but have been kind of forgotten about.

— Cassadee Pope

Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough…

— Marty Stuart

At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks too Duke Ellington.

— Miles Davis