Song Quotes · Page 601

The best thing that can happen is that a song you've written will live in the world so people can hear it.

— Skylar Grey

I thought my Jesus Piece was so harmless 'Till I see a picture of a shorty armless

— Kanye West

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still…

— John Darnielle

Because of acting I've gotten to travel and meet so many amazing people, and they inspire new songs.

— Emily Kinney

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.

— Colin Greenwood

With the jam bands I've seen, it's about music, and it's about theory, and it's about making everyone feel better with music.

— Butch Trucks

Facebook: *Scrolling down your newsfeed thinking:* don't care'' Whore Your life sucks Song lyrics Inside joke? Needs a therapist.

— Jeanette Kobayashi

I'm proud of having a girlfriend; it just doesn't have anything to do with my music.

— Romy Madley Croft

When I started singing, I was going to school. I remember some of the people in school singing, and they had a…

— August Alsina

There are lots of really good guitarists, but they play with the same pedals that everybody else does. Everybody buys the same…

— Paul Simon

The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music…

— Mstislav Rostropovich

Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I'm in my thirties or whatever.…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

I think things can have more than one meaning and still connect with people. There's a lot of meaning to the title…

— Jon Crosby

When we were trying to get 'Jersey Boys' off the ground, I'd get, 'The Four Seasons? Who's going to care? There's the…

— Frankie Valli

“When some early Tom Waits demos were released against his wishes in the early 1990s, he is supposed to have said: ‘Demo…

— Kirk Lake

The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices.…

— Anonymous

There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.

— Geoff Downes

Where I fit genre-wise, it's hard to tell. It's a fickle wind. But I have to believe there's always going to be…

— Lizz Wright

Like when I hear a beat, it might make you feel a way, but then it might make me feel a completely…

— Tierra Whack

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.

— Katy Perry

I love staying at home and not seeing a guitar for ten days... but then I love that feeling of picking it…

— Peter Frampton

I use the songwriting as medicine to kind of help me summarize how I'm feeling so that I can get past it.

— John Popper

Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom…

— Colin Meloy

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult. Very, very difficult.

— Bruce Springsteen

I have found in the Bible words for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterance for my hidden griefs and pleadings…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had…

— Scott Adams

I had a lot of teachers. When I think about my upbringing I feel like the most fortunate person. It was a…

— Bill Ward

For me, music is this incredibly cerebral trip. You turn on the radio or put on a record, and it's your song,…

— Billy Squier

I think part of the process of putting out a record is always looking back because, by the time a song comes…

— Frankie Cosmos

I'm one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start.

— Jeremy Denk

Both this song ['Black Skinhead'], 'I Am a God' and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn't let me into his…

— Kanye West

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every…

— Richard Wagner

I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do.

— Lana Del Rey

I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it.…

— Tom Jones

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a…

— Charles Hazlewood

music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.

— Irene Nemirovsky

“That is all I need to make a room full of happiness-two boys, one love, and a song.”

— David Levithan

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do…

— Stephen Sondheim

u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.

— Glenn Gould

The thing with Led Zeppelin songs is that they were never the same. They were very fluid and tight but loose.

— Jason Bonham