Song Quotes · Page 553

Rock & roll is dying. It’s frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now.

— Kurt Cobain

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

— John Cale

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in.

— Gwenno

“I know my breasts, small as plums, would win no blue ribbons. But in your hands they tremble and fill with song…

— Cecilia Llompart

There's been times that I did songs with people and they didn't put me on their album, I just respect their vision.

— Nav

You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.

— Douglas Adams

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't…

— Brad Paisley

If your songs connect with the fans and they pump their fists in the air and go "Yeah!!" that's when a song…

— Gene Simmons

I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I…

— Alison Goldfrapp

In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument.…

— Bill Frisell

I'm always weary of connotations. I don't want people to listen to the music I make presently because they liked my previous…

— Dev Hynes

For me people are people, without meaning to sound corny, it's a plain natural fact, music is a universal language and I've…

— John Lydon

I remember when I would write a song as a kid, I would also write out on paper what the drums would…

— Lights

I remember the first time I ever showed my parents a song that I had written. The content may have been a…

— Tyler Joseph

We get real picky about frequencies. Put it on a tape, start on tape, and it's kind of locked to how it…

— Adam Faulkner

I had to sing. I couldn't not sing. If it was singing to a living room full of people or an auditorium,…

— Anne Murray

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.

— Paul Simon

When people ask me if I have a boyfriend, I tell them it’s my guitar because, really, it’s what I love and…

— Michelle Branch

Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop - nobody cares!

— Kacey Musgraves

First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.

— La'Porsha Renae

I don't just like fillers, and I never put a filler on a record. I mean, I want every song on every…

— Sara Evans

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

— Laura Marling

“Have I told you lately that I love you?” “No, but if you sing that song to me, I’m going to reach…

— Meghan March

“We'll talk of sunshine and of song, And summer days, when we were young; Sweet childish days, that were as long As…

— William Wordsworth

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

— Caio Fonseca

“O it's Tommy this, an'Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away": But it's "Thank you, Mister Adkins," when the band begins to play...”

— Rudyard Kipling

When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are…

— Evan Dando

I'm such an emotional person that when it comes to songwriting, I can click into whatever zone I need.

— Natalie Prass

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all…

— Colbie Caillat

It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.

— Kirk Hammett

Sometimes the best moment to sing a victory song is in the middle of your battle.

— Jeremy Riddle

My mom listened to a lot of house music. My dad listened to a lot of roots and dub. I've got a…

— Jacob Anderson

In music, four is the number that every measure is - four by four, four beats to every measure. The number four…

— Jason Derulo

And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.

— Duncan Sheik

I don't keep up with it all. But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right? What a way…

— Michael J. Fox

I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you…

— Liam Gallagher

I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.

— Andrae Crouch

My taste is developing constantly, and it goes in whatever direction it wants to go in - the music follows.

— Bonobo

I love music because it's the only thing that hasn't walked away from me when I needed it most.

— Nishan Panwar