Song Quotes · Page 587

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.

— Travis Barker

That's something Pentatonix tries to do in all of our music. We try to keep it clean so that everybody can come…

— Kevin Olusola

I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases…

— Garth Brooks

I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I'm not like a guitar collector, I don't have all vintage instruments. I don't even…

— John Petrucci

What I love about Zeppelin is that you can listen to their entire catalog and kind of see where they were at…

— Lzzy Hale

A lot of people with a range of styles and vocal tones make all kinds of music for all sorts of audiences.…

— Kim Zolciak-Biermann

The reason that Shaft has a dominant theme song is because James Bond has a dominant theme song.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of…

— Arthur Helps

The first music-learning thing that I took seriously was piano lessons when I was a kid. I guess that was probably the…

— Frankie Cosmos

There's a lot of guys who have great technique, people practicing a lot and you hear them, but there's not that many…

— Marcus Miller

I have this rule: It's like, if you write an amazing, cool song that you mean and then you go put your…

— John Rzeznik

I am still working on developing my voice. I am, I know, better as a coloratura singer than I was. It's a…

— Anna Netrebko

“This is the core challenge of speaking up with an original idea. When you present a new suggestion, you’re not only hearing…

— Adam M. Grant

I want to create something that you haven't heard lyrically before. It's part of my job, and even though some of my…

— Justin Rutledge

To me, I always felt like drums have to be the support and the driving factor in a song, and there's places…

— Vinnie Paul

Don't forget that Mozart worked on commission. He almost always would write something if he knew exactly who was paying for it…

— Eric Weiner

Gotta love her SHOUT OUT TO MY HOMIE MILEY CYRUS, even she maybe a whore but gotta love ha songs 2 doe

— Anonymous

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

— Kurt Elling

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

— Wyndham Lewis

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute…

— John Mayer

I'd like to release solo songs on a regular basis, but it's pretty difficult for me to finish them.

— Rostam Batmanglij

Some songs are sort of born in the studio but some songs are really half-written in the studio.

— Ron Mael

I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.

— Gene Simmons

The rhythm of sitar cannot be created with chords of guitar and vice versa as both the instruments have a distinct purpose…

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

Music is a beautiful thing to listen to. It is not a thing to preach to others about, it’s not a cause.…

— Synyster Gates

I'm not here to write a song for you, I'm here to help you write a song for yourself.

— Miguel

The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.

— Lara St. John

I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.

— Ringo Starr

There are some songs we do, like "Last Chance," I love it! But sometimes you just don't like your voice on certain…

— Ginuwine

My favourite member of the Beatles is Lennon. He might have been crazy. But he's my kind of crazy.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

— Anonymous

My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my…

— Mitski

He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around.

— Julian Lennon

Lyrics always fall short with the amount of energy thrown into the playing. Lyrics to some extent are just the product of…

— Brian Chippendale

It sounds a little cliché, but I wanted to capture some of the feelings or sounds that I heard when I listened…

— Bucky Pope

People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.

— Hayley Williams

Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.

— Sam Smith

I think Black Eyed Peas are kind of unique in the ways they produce their songs. Their songs are very current.

— Steve Pink

Because the only thing that punk rock should ever really mean, is not sitting 'round and waiting for the lights to go…

— Frank Turner

Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see Bluebirds Singing a song Nothing but bluebirds All day long

— Irving Berlin