Song Quotes · Page 588

I'm just going to make the music I love to make, and I'm going to mature with my music.

— Jay-Z

Being in a band is like a marriage because you have to care about everybody because you're all living together.

— Susan Tedeschi

If my life was a song it would be, 'It ain't that easy being green' from Sesame Street.

— Jacob Lusk

We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.

— Michael Hutchence

When I ask you to listen to a song, it's because the lyrics mean everything I'm trying to say to you.

— Anonymous

Sure, we all like listening to music on vinyl, but that doesn't mean streaming music on Spotify is bad.

— Om Malik

I first write melodies that will make people shiver, and then, I add the lyrics.

— Nicky Jam

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

— David Byrne

One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mixed, you need…

— Carmen Ejogo

I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way.…

— Tom Petty

The internet seems to be what a lot of independent bands are doing these days. They're bypassing the studio - the big…

— David Gilmour

You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it…

— Zakk Wylde

Music is something to live for. It is just for me, nobody else can take away from me.It makes me so happy…

— Eliza Doolittle

I got a toy guitar at a fundraiser and was trying to write songs with it that were ridiculous. After a week,…

— Soccer Mommy

“I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and…

— Lady Gaga

I never thought I would sing professionally, but it so happened that I made Babul hear a Bengali song I had sung…

— Hema Malini

When I heard BB Kings Sweet Sixteen, I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that…

— Donald Dunn

I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.

— Hozier

Money is just a piece of paper.Money burns.You know what I mean? Money is nothing substantial to me.You know what I mean?It's…

— Christofer Drew

I've always been a rocker. Like ever since I was really young. I had a crush on the Green Day guys. That's…

— Ashlee Simpson

Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.

— Willie Nelson

My dad is huge on music, so he always made tapes from his friends. That's how I got into music.

— Chris Harris, Jr

The heart is a music box containing a love song waiting to play for you and your loved one

— Anonymous

Drumming's pretty physical. We sit at the back of the stage getting beat up like a workhorse.

— Tommy Lee

I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on.

— Tupac Shakur

I have an amp that doesn't have a master volume. It sounds awesome, but we just can't get an appropriate decibel level…

— Joe Trohman

A lot of people don't know that Beethoven, when he wrote the Fifth Symphony, that second movement, he took eight years to…

— Wayne Shorter

You're in a band with someone, it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to agree with everything they think or do.

— Boy George

It's funny how we can remember the lyrics to hundreds of songs, but can't remember anything when we study for a test.

— Anonymous

Everywhere you look on the planet people are using drums to alter consciousness.

— Mickey Hart

Let's turn to the West, Let's turn up the music, Let's hope it's always as good as this

— Chris Pureka

I write songs now I look at my strengths and I start there. In The Walkmen, we'd start with the live stuff.

— Hamilton Leithauser

I'm always excited to share my passion about flamenco, so other people can discover this music - which is amazing - and…

— Rosalia

Dan Harmon has this idea that characters on TV are allowed to talk about their favorite movies and TV shows and songs.

— Gillian Jacobs

Surely there are enough Celtic songs without introducing religion or politics or anything else.

— Jock Stein

The easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her.

— David Crosby

There's always something extremely personal in the songs, but I may change the point of view from what I actually experienced.

— Annie E. Clark

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature... But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger!

— Bushwick Bill

I don't think people buy records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought…

— Billy Corgan