Song Quotes · Page 625

It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.

— Wayne Wonder

Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.

— Rob Sheffield

I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's…

— Stephen Stills

I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.

— Frederic Chopin

We did something that bands are kind of afraid of, or at least used to be, [which] is the YouTube scene. They…

— Chrissy Costanza

“In the mountains our throats become free. It's a wonder we don't break into song.”

— Franz Kafka

Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get…

— Dr. Dre

The last song I listen to before every match is 'Protect Ya Neck,' always has been.

— Dylan Alcott

For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look…

— Margaret Atwood

Some songs they mean a lot to people, like you mean to me. When you listen to your favourite song it takes…

— Melchor Lim

“Musicians add to songs and they evolve: For as was true of human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something…

— Charles Frazier

I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize…

— Brian Eno

The most metal? Some would say Slayer, but I think they're a dreadful band. Unbelievably boring. Terrible. Apparently it's not metal to…

— Floor Jansen

I definitely get my artistry and my vocal talent from my mother and mother's side. She sang in a jazz trio band…

— Zella Day

To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed…

— Iris Murdoch

I didn't want the lyrics to be about specific things in my life, I wanted them to be about generalised experiences I'd…

— Zachary Cole Smith

I didn't really like 'You Raise Me Up' at the time we recorded it; now it's my favourite Westlife song.

— Shane Filan

The universe itself was created by the sound waves which that almighty created. So music and spirituality go together. Everything is interconnected.

— Diljit Dosanjh

Don't judge my music 'til you've heard it, my life 'til you've lived it, and my heart 'til you've loved it.

— Nishan Panwar

The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and…

— Michael Jackson

I've always liked a very dry snare and, like everyone else, a very dry bass drum.

— Nick Mason

A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.

— Sri Chinmoy

So my reaction to hearing this corny-ass, horrible song ["With Arms Wide Open" by Creed] is violent, uncontrollable, sustained weeping.

— Michael Ian Black

Everything I've done and everything I've gained in my life has been with my music.

— Sharon Jones

There are an awful lot of bands out there doing our old act. An awful lot of fake moustaches and underwhelming performances.

— Roger Taylor

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

— Calum Scott

One of my first public performances was singing hymns at a funeral for a friend of our family.

— Christopher Jackson

When I was a teenager, you were either a punk, a skinhead or a mod, or you weren't on the scene. Me…

— Dorian Yates

There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready…

— Mavis Staples

'Ten' by Pearl Jam is still by far one of my favorite albums and is a big part of what inspired me…

— Mark Salling

People expect me to do the classics, and it is a lot like playing a favorite song.

— Frank Caliendo

Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a…

— Dar Williams

“No record mogul had created Black Sabbath , so no record mogul could tell Black Sabbath what to do.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives

— Barack Obama

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

— Brad Paisley

“I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.”

— Eminem

I wouldn't know absolutely everything I've been influenced by, but the first jazz I heard was Duke Ellington.

— Melody Gardot

I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.

— Bill Nighy

It's easier to collaborate with instrumentalists than singers; they know exactly the sound that I need.

— Kaytranada

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.

— Jon Brion