Song Quotes · Page 538

It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music…

— Geezer Butler

I tend to pour myself into my music and I don't have a lot of other places my mind goes, unless it's…

— Joel Plaskett

When you're watching 'Armageddon,' and the Aerosmith song starts... Super funny.

— Trey Parker

We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in…

— Drew Goddard

Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For me, one song is not enough to be in a person's world. I need to be in their world for 40…

— Shura

For me, it's more about keeping it simple with a rock and roll edge. It's all about accessorising.

— Lulu

I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out…

— Sammy Hagar

I still feel like we're the underdogs, but I feel like people respect us now. People might not like our band or…

— Mark Hoppus

I'm not a jazz musician, because, I mean, firstly, I can't play anything. I'm not bad on the tamborine. I have a…

— Michael Buble

Like the ability of all the musicians to end the song at the right time. Or when it's time for a chord…

— Larkin Grimm

It makes no sense to me at all to give away music for free. The very fact that we have to do…

— Paul Young

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in…

— Jimmy Buffett

A lot of artists have been persuaded into doing whatever they can do to gain attention. The media, of course, will position…

— Chuck D

I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out…

— Glenda Millard

The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about…

— John Darnielle

Music was a great way for me to express myself, there's topics I talk about in my songs, which I wouldn't have…

— Bugzy Malone

I think initially the impetus for doing stuff yourself comes from your love of other music.

— Andy Gill

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's…

— Sam Hunt

Back when I was growing up, I always had one foot in the street and one foot in music.

— Yo Gotti

I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.

— Jon Fishman

I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered…

— Eric Alterman

The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.

— Saadi

It takes a special, selfless person to make music that accommodates the universal need for mindless escapism - or what I call…

— Greg Gutfeld

With Bernstein, because we wound up always working music first, it was where I really feel I learned how to write lyrics…

— Stephen Schwartz

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

— Jimi Hendrix

There's never anything planned. I just do what I feel is best for the song at that time.

— Mark Kozelek

Times are tough in the music industry, and now more than ever we need people like the team at Paste looking out…

— Cary Brothers

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you…

— Pete Seeger

I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

— Dan Bejar

It's funny how 1 text, 1 song, 1 mistake, 1 lie, 1 word, 1 truth, and 1 person could change your mood in 1 second …

— Anonymous

My basic setup is my Ibanez Fireman guitars and for pedals, the TC Electronic MojoMojo is the mainstay of my board, along…

— Paul Gilbert

There are times when I think I can sing it better, but usually I find that I can't.

— Nick Cave

A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the…

— Hunter S. Thompson

When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me,…

— Langhorne Slim

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

— Kara DioGuardi

Music takes me where I go. I'm always open to wherever the journey will take me.

— Paul Rodgers

My dad has been fond of music since childhood. He used to play and sing in his college band in Russia.

— Jonita Gandhi

I've written songs about love or about a relationship, but never just, 'I love you.'

— Matt Skiba

I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply.

— Jason Mraz