Song Quotes · Page 571

The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.

— Compay Segundo

When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens…

— Burton Cummings

I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in

— Geezer Butler

You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am…

— Britt Daniel

When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens

— Barry Gibb

I always thought it was important for my lyrics to come from a really honest place.

— Avey Tare

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to…

— Richard Wagner

Id love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

— Candy Crowley

If I had to pick one guitar to take to a desert island, I'd pick my '67 Rickenbacker 12-string, which I bought…

— Mike Campbell

By the time I was ten or eleven, I had a song-book and I was writing everything down. It used to just…

— Ella Henderson

I don't want another 'It Wasn't Me.' I've been asked that question so many times. Do I want a song of that…

— Shaggy

“Music expresses both in lyrics and in tune something of the orientation of the composer and author as to what the truth…

— Robert Godfrey

I used to have these reoccurring dreams that I played guitar, which I thought was so bizarre. It all sort of fit…

— John Petrucci

I solidify his [ Riccardo Tisci] vision and what he is trying to manifest, make it a crystal or solid thing because…

— Erykah Badu

The holy grail for a music fan is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever.…

— Aphex Twin

This is a tradition of resistance to the term that's as old as the term itself, especially because that term has been…

— Vijay Iyer

My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same…

— Joshua Mohr

“Mr. Black started singing a song in some weird language, which I guess was Philippinish.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw…

— Erin McKeown

My guiding principle when writing with other people is that it's not worth it to give someone a song unless it hurts…

— Josh Tillman

“Happiness is a song that plays you when you share it with the people who matter the most”

— Emily Murdoch

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of…

— Kate Smith

There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat.

— Brian May

To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know.

— Sebastian Bach

Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.

— Natalie MacMaster

When I recorded 'Unlovable', I had a lump in my throat. It was moving, but I wasn't sure if people wanted me…

— Darren Hayes

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

— Marcel Marceau

But you know, I really like to present the songs on an album as a story, as something thematic, rather than something…

— Pegi Young

I like to write my own songs rather than merely singing what has been handed over to you.

— Shibani Dandekar

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

— Stephen Stills

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a…

— Jacques Villeneuve

I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan.

— Scott Ian

I tried writing a song and it wasn't very good. I sung it to my mom and she told me it was…

— Doja Cat

Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar.

— Dave Edmunds

I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically

— Gavin DeGraw

I like the songwriting. I don't ever listen and then go back and change stuff. For me when I wrote the song,…

— Christopher Owens

Whenever I write my music, it's always been in English first and then I take it into Korean.

— Eric Nam

Elton John and Billy Joel, I find them both to be huge inspirations, those guys are so talented.

— Kygo

The craziest thing is that the song ["My President"] is real but you can still hear it in the club.

— Young Jeezy

When a good idea sparks, it's usually because of some subversive angle that means the song we're writing will be fresh.

— Robert Lopez