Song Quotes · Page 593

“The best song of life is yet to be sung; the best dreams of life are yet to be dreamed.”

— Debasish Mridha

For making music for myself, I just need to be happy. I'm the producer, the director, and the listener.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I actually grew up listening to music as like - church music and stuff like that.

— Cupcakke

You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the…

— Rick Astley

I always loved the piano because it's just a bunch of buttons. I like to push buttons.

— Grace Potter

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can…

— Adam Rich

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's…

— Carlos Santana

I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating…

— Patrick Stump

My cousin Joey played the drums. We used to go to his house, I liked beating on his drums. I beat the…

— Carmine Appice

The Stones are not the kind of band that want to get in the details. That's why they have a producer and…

— Nikki Sixx

I'm a touring artist - I love going out and playing live, and I was sick of making records didn't translate well…

— Todd Carey

Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north,…

— Keith Johnstone

“I'm not saying you have to learn Barbershop to be a great a cappella singer... but I am promising you if you…

— Deke Sharon

Hawai'i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs--islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens. It was and…

— Alan Brennert

You always gotta reach the people who feel bad about themselves or insecure about themselves, and I think 'Like 'Em All' was…

— Jacob Latimore

A lot of times what happens is, the song that is the most special ends up being least heard. So, whenever I…

— Jonita Gandhi

I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my…

— Robby Benson

Follow me and do exactly what the song says Smoke weed, take pills, drop outta school, kill people And drink and jump…

— Eminem

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist…

— Serj Tankian

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

— Gabrielle Giffords

I'm more interested in the meanings and the bands that fill up the spaces known as new wave and post punk.

— Martin Popoff

I've never been good at being nostalgic, and I've never been able to focus on sound without having a voice that's very…

— Jenny Hval

We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

— Jean-Philippe Rameau

Maybe one day I'll write my rock album so I can use more obscure references and just be weird. If the lyrics…

— Chaz Bundick

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of…

— Steve Earle

If is a next hit song this gyal me love how you ah gwaan. Me cya wait fi hold yuh inna mi…

— Mavado

I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my…

— Fetty Wap

Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice

— Kripalvananda

Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on…

— Rob Sheffield

Great music - say jazz - has that inventive, improvisational quality that tells us something about life.

— Kevin Young

I don't sit there writing songs, thinking, 'This would be good for Rihanna.' I don't want to be pitching out like that.

— Sam Smith

The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware…

— Finneas

The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.

— Manuel de Falla

I can't jump into other people's shoes, I can only speak for me. My songs are pretty much sermons put to music.

— Mike Willis

I am very conscious of first sampling the music and then getting it out for fans.

— Himesh Reshammiya

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get…

— Rick Springfield

I write good songs out of fear... fear of failure. Because if they're not good enough, you feel yourself starting to fall.

— Ezra Furman

I still like to keep all the love songs for the Grobanites, I like to make sure that they know those are…

— Josh Groban

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums unless they're divorced and trying to get back at…

— Josh Homme

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

— Brian Harvey