Song Quotes · Page 640

I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time.

— Scott Ian

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a…

— Frankie Cosmos

The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you…

— Mary J. Blige

“History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.”

— Michael P. Naughton

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

— Mandy Patinkin

Music has always been and will always be a strong gateway to connect with consumers in an emotional hot state.

— Steve Stoute

When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

— Alan Menken

To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal.

— Ray Charles

The only problem I've had with my Vox wah is its tendency to move around on the floor. So now it sits…

— Kirk Hammett

If I had more time, I could've utilized the stage more and turned it into my own but since I used all…

— Seungri

“In music, there is no bondage. Music is a door, and the soul escapes through the melody. Even if it’s only for…

— Amy Harmon

I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In…

— Ronnie James Dio

Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of…

— Cat Stevens

The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music,…

— Bruce Springsteen

My mother always wanted to play an instrument. Her parents never gave her that. Then it got to a point where I'd…

— Lulu Wang

Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads,…

— James Fenton

It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet…

— Victor Wooten

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

— Deana Carter

More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.

— Tony Bennett

I do my best to stay with tha times and keep makin hits that are timeless and relevant. Goin on 20 years…

— Snoop Dogg

If the song makes it and people like it, then I guess that's all that matters, really.

— Jeff Beck

It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.

— Greg Lake

I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that…

— Jimi Hendrix

I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent…

— Chrissie Hynde

The outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes.

— Dan Fogelberg

“Oh ... My twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And I give you…

— Neil Gaiman

I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different.

— Angel Haze

God has blessed me with something. One day, I do see myself being like Jimmy Iovine. I'm trying to build an empire.

— Mike Will Made It

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

— Brian Setzer

Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity.

— Grace Potter

There's no real personality in the band that can be pushed to do anything that they don't want to. We are four…

— John Dolmayan

When I was at school I was always in choirs and started my own barbershop quartet when I was eight.

— Rebecca Front

I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.

— Robert Plant

SOLO' is a fun, self-loving song. Through it, I wanted to show different sides of me.

— Jennie

I always feel on film you have to earn a ballad, because it's a different kind of pace.

— Rob Marshall

There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.

— David Cook

I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.

— Lewis Capaldi

Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.

— Peter Asher

I sang 'Your Song' by Elton John, and Silva Screen Records were watching. They got in touch with my agent then had…

— Chris Kamara

When I was seven, I sang 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' in assembly and the teachers were crying because it was so emotional!

— Arlo Parks