Song Quotes · Page 642

The Beach Boys already had about four or five albums under our belt when these newcomers, The Beatles, took the U.S. by…

— Mike Love

That's all I ever wanted to do: put out music from the heart that people could relate to.

— Alessia Cara

If it takes you a year to cut a record, I don't know, you need to find something else to do. It…

— Jason Aldean

The thing I stress to my fans is that I've been making big, universally friendly-type music for a long time now. I…

— Machine Gun Kelly

I first started to sing when I started to talk. As soon as I could form words and sounds together, I was…

— Leah LaBelle

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

— Anonymous

Essentially I'm a melody person in a rhythm age, and that's what Broadway is really about, the songs.

— Dennis DeYoung

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

— John Perry Barlow

I love early blues like Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, and Howlin' Wolf. I listened to the way these people sang, and it…

— Rob Halford

The production pushes and pulls you as much as the song does. It's almost more to do with the production value of…

— Adam Faulkner

There are songs and melody that make you really happy. And there are spiritual gifts that you have - giving these gifts…

— Russell Simmons

I think the trick is that you have to change how you take stuff in. Maybe the early beginnings of a song…

— Conor O'Brien

Well being in Kiss is having a more limited spectrum. It's a smaller playground to play in because there are limitations. I'm…

— Gene Simmons

“Between two musical notes there exists another note, between two facts there exists another fact, between two grains of sand, no matter…

— Clarice Lispector

A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music.…

— Willie Nelson

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music,…

— David Bowie

As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of…

— Blake Judd

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

— Taylor Swift

My goal is just to be real and bring people good music and let them enjoy the music that I bring.

— Stefflon Don

My favourite guitar was - I can't remember if it was '50s or '60s - a pale wood Telecaster, and it made…

— Viv Albertine

Going to radio with a rap record prior to going to the consumer is like having no foreplay with your girlfriend.

— Lyor Cohen

The music industry as a whole needs to genuinely make a conscious effort to look after people's physical and mental health.

— Sam Fender

'Uprising' was one of the first three or four albums I ever bought in 1980 when I was 13, and that had…

— Kevin Macdonald

Tell your sotries to me, Show me your bruises. Let's see what humanityis capable of handling

— La Dispute

I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12

— Johnny Winter

People often look up to actors. It is not right on their part to do songs whose lyrics are not good. Actors…

— Kumar Sanu

I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and…

— Madeleine Peyroux

I just love to sit and go, 'Let's just write a song and not worry about how it needs to be'.

— Oliver Sykes

“Music originated from God and was created solely for his worship, his glory, and his pleasure.”

— Pedro Okoro

As a band, when we started, that was all we were good at. It wasn't 'we've got to be a guitar band';…

— Luke Hemmings

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play…

— Jon Fishman

I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody.

— Theophilus London

I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than...…

— Zachary Cole Smith

Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century,

— Herbie Hancock

I enjoy the songs that I write, but I can never enjoy them the same way as other peoples' songs.

— Mark Lanegan

I listen to a lot of Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, Britney Spears - the songs just stick in your head and that's what…

— Jonas Blue

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

— Tom Morello

Of course, we're very excited if our songs and albums do well, but that's not necessarily a goal that we set.

— Jin

If I'm doing a concert, and I'm having a problem with the audience... I just play a Bob Marley song, and I'm…

— Ziggy Marley

It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings.

— Neil Young