Song Quotes · Page 600

I never really know what I'm playing. I just follow what sounds good in my head and keep going.

— Daniel Powter

I'm really not a songwriter, so if I hear a song, I feel it and like it, I'll do it. But I'll…

— Glen Campbell

I like to listen to other good band's music before I write a song, it inspires me.

— Kings Of Leon

I think the rhythm is like the spine of the piece. If you change that, then the body that forms around it…

— Peter Gabriel

I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my strong…

— Channing Tatum

I'm free to do what I please, I'm probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles…

— Al Yankovic

I'm the music guy, I get to wear the music hat, but being able to be that guy in the room is…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Make music a service that's easy to consume, and there'll be plenty of money for everyone.

— Todd Rundgren

You create something in your bedroom or your house, and it's just a fun thing that you're doing. Then, all of a…

— Linda Perry

Another goal that I have is to learn how to play the ukulele - should be fun - and to stop taking…

— Kristen Schaal

I always like to write the songs, and they get turned loose into the world, and who knows what happens to them.…

— Chris Stapleton

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas…

— Michael Nesmith

I think what's happenin' is that, with the overflow of music, it's been diluted. There was a time when people would go…

— Ice T

One way in which 'Friends' did resemble 'Seinfeld' is that it really found its audience over the summer of 1995 in reruns.…

— Warren Littlefield

My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not…

— Joanna Newsom

To ensure that future generations have the opportunity to make a living from the creation of music, it is critical that we…

— Keri Hilson

I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.

— Lenny Kravitz

My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder,…

— Jonny Lang

Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

— Klaus Schulze

I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead…

— Sinead O'Connor

“Music communicates to us emotionally through systematic violations of expectations.”

— Daniel J. Levitin

I have been singing since the time I was two. My mom says I would sing Gujarati songs with my grandmother when…

— Ileana D'Cruz

What I have inherited from my father is my passion for my work which is my music.

— Tulsi Kumar

Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly…

— Neil Diamond

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

— Keith Jarrett

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

— Placido Domingo

I guess, I ended up finding music to pour my curiosity into. It was my creative outlet and therapy at the same…

— Missy Higgins

I am a big a fan of Raveena! Every time I saw the song from 'Andaz Apna Apna' - 'Elo ji sanam,'…

— Prabhas

I think people should consume their music any way they want. If it's more practical for them to listen to it on…

— Tristan Perich

I feel like everybody's life literally has a soundtrack because we love music so much, and there are so many songs that…

— Robert Glasper

When I first started making music, for about the first 10 years, I was always the young kid. Everyone referred to me…

— Justin Broadrick

I grew up playing the piano, but you know, as a rebellious child, I convinced myself that I hated it.

— Aimee Osbourne

I want to find out more about how the Backstreet Boys get their incredible sound. I've got both their albums and I…

— Tom Jones

I took one piano lesson and hated it and then didn't take any piano lessons until I was 18.

— Rostam Batmanglij

When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached.

— Keri Hilson

“Now I end my death song. I give my farewell to mountain and sky. It has been good to be alive.”

— Tad Williams

I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I'm not young, so I want to make the…

— Michael Gira

That's been a pretty interesting thing, visiting schools and performing and doing songwriting talks and stuff.

— Declan McKenna

There is a very thin line that differentiates and gives a song its distinct flavour.

— Mani Sharma

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

— Justin Townes Earle