Song Quotes · Page 591

I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.

— Britt Daniel

Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and…

— Michael Bolton

For Westlife, the music will never stop as long as our fans are around inspiring us to keep on making beautiful music…

— Shane Filan

Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.

— Amish Tripathi

If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs.

— Bob Dylan

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state

— Stephan Jenkins

Music can inspire immediate emotional reactions, even if the only person who hears it is the person creating it.

— Hilary Hahn

When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist

— Tim McGraw

People often comment on the feeling and soul in my music, and I think part of that comes from the honesty and…

— Jason Becker

“What an odd thing it is to see an entire species -- billions of people -- playing with, listening to meaningless tonal…

— Oliver Sacks

I think it's absolutely possible to write a song and go somewhere where no one's been before, uncharted territory. In terms of…

— Richard Thompson

I think the more emotional you are, the better. I'm sort of writing [songs] as I go and I can never tell…

— Miranda Lambert

We can either rip your face up with 'Painkiller,' or we can play this beautiful thing called 'Last Rose of Summer' from…

— Rob Halford

Arcade Fire has kept their indie cred. They will sell out stadiums yet still have underdog status. But when you're a band…

— Mark Foster

Sometimes I would go on Sundays and play with Doc Cheatham. I was also playing in a band of teenagers led by…

— Jon Gordon

It's always hard for me to put the pieces together when listening to a finished album that I was a part of…

— Coy Bowles

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of…

— Robert James Waller

“I want to drum up interest for instruments that are played by beating them with sticks.”

— Jarod Kintz

Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be…

— Matt Nathanson

“Would you sing for me ?" "I don't think that's a good idea." "Likely not. But it does not change the desire.”

— Sarah MacLean

My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country…

— Blake Shelton

I wanted to be open. On the last project, "Affection," I co-wrote everything. Sometimes, I think, it's smart to step away and…

— Jody Watley

You're like brothers in a band like that. Sometimes we got in arguments, but it was like a marriage, we all loved…

— Randy Meisner

“Nothing the Rolling Stones ever did was more important than the respect they showed to the music that had inspired them.”

— Stephen Davis

Sometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom.

— Ella Fitzgerald

Whenever you make a record you want to inject something unique into it, that's unique to where you're from. I suppose that's…

— Gruff Rhys

I always thought I would release an album and my songs would play on the radio. Now, the dream has come true.

— Rahul Vaidya

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you…

— Lord Byron

There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.

— Shane MacGowan

People don't buy records anymore. I don't know how people can support themselves.

— Aimee Mann

Making an album is always a puzzle: you start by seeing a lot of different pieces, and they all need to come…

— Floor Jansen

Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.

— Aloe Blacc

Sometimes you're inspired by an old-school song that you want to chop up and make a sample out of it. I find…

— Bishop Briggs

For anybody who writes, very often, when you finish an album, you are so done with it. You've been listening in minutia,…

— Gerry Beckley

Sound is energy, and that energy resonates with your energy. And it gives you a certain feeling.

— India Arie

I was actually really stunned that my label suggested 'Door' as the single to lead with, as it's such a long and…

— Caroline Polachek

You need to have your favourite song. The one that reminds you how it all began. Make sure she never forgets it.

— James Merrow

I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now…

— Jeff Beck

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

— Grant-Lee Phillips

New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of…

— Huey Lewis