Song Quotes · Page 575

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.

— Michael Stipe

I'd like to do an anthology. Maybe a collection of songs set in my world, or based on my world. I think…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness.

— Sri Chinmoy

I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in…

— Dick Dale

What I liked about grunge was the realness. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't glamorous.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really…

— Mike Shinoda

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes…

— Mick Jagger

Its funny how we remember lyrics to like so many songs, but can't remember to study for a test. that's me!

— Anonymous

I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some…

— Aaliyah

I don't feel anything about it. I really like "Staring at the Sun" - I like that song a lot. I haven't…

— Justin Vernon

It's very important to have a good song - one where you can strip away all the production and just play it…

— Lights

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my…

— Lou Reed

We were number one most added at radio, when the single came out and that's much different. It took like eight months…

— Jon Crosby

The first music you really fall in love with is more than just music. It's something that clicks in you beyond the…

— Taylor Hanson

“Find yourself a local,” she advised, “and have cake by the ocean.” When I gave her a blank look, she smacked her…

— Mia Sosa

“For you, a thousand times over." "Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors." "...attention shifted…

— Khalid Hosseini

I will say this: I've always sort of had maybe an inflated sense of my ability to sequence songs in a narrative…

— Rodney Crowell

There are two kinds of music: good music and bad music. Both are and will continue to co-exist.

— Shankar Mahadevan

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

— Aldo Leopold

That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it's a happy song and I can still feel sad in…

— Shane McAnally

They're very different things, a poem and a song, you wouldn't think they would be, but they are.

— John Cooper Clarke

It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus.

— Paul Weller

“For songs are the heart of our memory and they let us live the search for meaning in our lives again and…

— Judy Collins

I think when you look back at the different eras in jazz, what leads from one to another is never a melodic…

— Stefon Harris

To be able to do a song with Kanye West and then a video with Hype Williams who directed the video, that's…

— Paul Wall

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

— Dar Williams

Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye.

— Wynton Marsalis

Life is so mundane, isn't it? It's great to hear a guitarist getting into it and the rhythmic section blasting, even if…

— Paul Rodgers

…the songs are universal enough that in ten years time they should still hold up quite well.

— Greg Graffin

I feel like all my songs slept-on. I'm not complainin', but I just wanna drop more heat.

— Lil Tjay

I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

— Lupe Fiasco

I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

— Bobby Sherman

I sit a lot with my lyrics - I don't write just to write or put a line in just to have…

— Snoh Aalegra

I'm with you once more under the stars and down by the shore an orchestra's playing and even the palms seem to…

— Beegie Adair

My original goal was to get into the Top 100. I listened to every song in the Top 100 every day. I…

— Porter Robinson

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

— Mika

I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with…

— Mose Allison

When I'm writing, I try to think about what would make a song better before worrying about personal opinions.

— Phoebe Bridgers

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

— Neil Diamond

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.

— Kesha