Song Quotes · Page 634

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

— Bill Frisell

There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.

— Rick Rubin

You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so…

— Mick Jagger

Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change…

— Thom Yorke

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

— Anonymous

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a…

— Sammy Hagar

To record an album is cathartic, or at least it was with 'Belus,' but to make music is more fulfilling than anything…

— Varg Vikernes

My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

— Carl Sandburg

In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is…

— Theodore E. Steinway

I definitely don't have a music industry goal because I've done that and completed that work. My quest is to find new…

— Chuck Harmony

I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rhythm and performance are…

— Jiah Khan

There's really nothing better than music to bring people together and to have amazing music being not just created inside walls but…

— Nas

For a movie, you have to make sure the lyrics are consistent with the rhythm that is given to you. But, at…

— Kapil Sibal

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly…

— Jarvis Cocker

We were watching TV one day and a George Michael music video came on and dad tutted and said 'Oh, he was…

— Jamie Demetriou

Music is like my secret garden. It's where I heal myself from every pain that I feel. It's like a therapy.

— Jain

Life is like a Piano, white keys are happy days, black keys are sad days, and both are needed to make music

— Anonymous

When your songs are like your babies, even the one that you know aren't great, you still love.

— Cody Johnson

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.

— Phil Collins

It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.

— Kim Dotcom

Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.

— Nat Hentoff

I rarely know exactly what I want to do, but always know exactly how I want it to make me feel. Feeling…

— Rihanna

I'm breaking so many rules every single day, and I think that's where you make good music.

— Laufey

Oh my love, it's you that I dream of Oh my love, since that day Somewhere in my heart I'm always Dancing…

— Belinda Carlisle

Confusion starts to rhyme in this melody I sing. Questions filled my mind, puzzlement is all it brings.

— Cleo

You’re the missing piece I need The song inside of me I need to find you I gotta find you

— Demi Lovato

John Bonham, probably the greatest drummer ever - all of us wanted to play drums like him.

— Vinnie Paul

Any of the bands that came out at the same time as us, they're either gone now, or they got just mega…

— Wayne Static

The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang…

— Shusaku Endo

I was genuinely happy when I wrote that song [Training Wheels] and very in love. That's a very rare emotion to evoke…

— Melanie Martinez

Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.

— Kenny G

The thing for me though, is that songs are good depending on the memories I have with them.

— George Ezra

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter…

— Laurence Sterne

... all of the great sounds that James Burton and Jimmy Bryant were getting, came out of Telecasters

— Albert Lee

I feel that in the music industry there are so many artists it's easy to be forgotten because it's so cluttered.

— Big Daddy Kane

There are a lot of different ways you can be a part of this music and love it and make a contribution…

— Jon Gordon

“One can spot a fellow musician in any context, even amongst policemen. The craziest-eyed, unruliest-haired one, either hungry-skinny or jovial-portly.”

— David Mitchell

“My mom used to have her own hymnal. It was as marked up as her Bible. She sang in the church choir…

— Katherine Reay

Remember that song that you let me listen to last time, well even though I didnt like it that much, because of…

— Josephine