Song Quotes · Page 543

“I just want to break that song into pieces," she said, "and love them all to death.”

— Rainbow Rowell

For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."

— Alan Licht

I could always sing just playing around, but I ain't want to be no singer. I thought that was lame.

— Brent Faiyaz

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

— Macklemore

Sometimes the problem is not the people in the band, but the people around the band.

— Anonymous

I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The…

— Slash

The best thing is when you hear somebody take your song and make something great of it.

— James Taylor

Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad…

— Amy Lee

Music has a way of filling in the missing places. It is a gift from God above, who didn't have to provide…

— Chris Fabry

I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were…

— Ringo Starr

People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments.…

— Kaskade

I'd rather call it "instrumental creative music," especially the music that I've been doing. If a person would hear that music, they…

— Eldar Djangirov

If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen…

— F. Paul Wilson

People say to me, 'Do you dye your hair?' and I say, 'Well, does f**king Siouxsie Sioux? Does Bowie?'. Of course I'm…

— Johnny Marr

It's what I like to call the horizontal Jesus. Vertical Jesus are the songs that say 'Lord I love you, Lord I…

— Kirk Franklin

My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known…

— R. Kelly

I grew up in a family where my father was in a rock band, and I saw and heard every story.

— Domino Kirke

For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a…

— Sean Lennon

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't…

— Will Oldham

If you get a song which really cracks it for you, it is fantastic, as people, more than watching your film, watch…

— Prachi Desai

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.

— Billie Holiday

If I didn't make a single song in two months, I'm slippin'. You can't just party every night.

— G-Eazy

Because I believe that the future of the music lies in the Internet. It can be sold on the Internet.

— Lester Bowie

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

— Billy Higgins

Technology has long been the driver of growth in the music business from the invention of lacquers, eight-track players, vinyl, cassettes and…

— Troy Carter

There will always be a song in our playlist which we always skip, but never delete.

— Anonymous

When I dream about music, or think about music, by myself, I try to be as free as possible and allow my…

— John Dieterich

You do a little more of a record album these days. See I just wanted to put a few songs in Beaches…

— Garry Marshall

Love is the music of our lifetimes. It endures beyond time just as a musician�s note resonates eternally through space.

— Julie Rearick

I want to share music that we grew up with for this generation, the music my parents shared with me.

— John Gourley

I think pop music was going through a phase where it was like pop but dance-hall or pop but R&B. But, no,…

— Jaboukie Young-White

In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing...…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My mom used to wake us up with music and keep the music on high so we wouldn't go back to sleep.

— Inspectah Deck

A lot of early Misfits song titles are inspired by old B-movies, which were my Popeye's spinach when I was a kid.

— Colson Whitehead

I grew up in the '90s. I listened to a lot of The Clash, Velvet Underground and Roxy Music. I wasn't into…

— Aaron Taylor-Johnson

I think when you've lived a bit, you read more into the songs. I do, anyway. And you're sort of living the…

— Tom Jones

I could probably use some tips from a vocal trainer or something about breathing, but we all know it's not about technical…

— John Grant

“Any conversation is a unique jazz performance. Some are more pleasing to the ears, but that is not necessarily a measurement of…

— Frank Herbert

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

— Leila Josefowicz

I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might…

— Gil Scott-Heron