Song Quotes · Page 652

“I don't expect you to understand, little bird. I expect you only to sing. Sing for me, sing for Kanin, and make…

— Julie Kagawa

I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever…

— Kailash Kher

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good…

— Emeli Sande

It is a fact that each song an artist creates is unique and although fans tend to be loyal, ultimately the quality…

— Greg Ginn

If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?

— Amy Jackson

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy…

— Joe Elliott

On 'Underground,' we had used contemporary music to pull you into the present and not just look at it as a portrait…

— Misha Green

I used to have this little punk pop band, and I don't know why we did 'Behind Blue Eyes,' because it's not…

— Lights

On the song 'Step,' the chorus is Ezra is singing into my laptop with the laptop microphone, and you can hear the…

— Rostam Batmanglij

She was sittin' all alone over on the tailgate Tan legs swingin' by a Georgia plate I was lookin' for her boyfriend…

— Luke Bryan

“Sonata,” he says, “means ‘sounding together.’ It is an argument in which one theme is presented in opposition to another and they…

— Eula Biss

Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a…

— Barry McGuire

I was a soul singer first and I'd write love songs. I find with soul music it's really hard to write about…

— Ben Drew

I think that kind of balance comes with the process of growing together as a band, the Little Dragon. We love to…

— Yukimi Nagano

“Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely…

— Christoph Wolff

I very rarely play with my fingers anymore. Again, with the flatwounds, the pick gives me a really nice solid punch.

— Cliff Williams

“If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don’t want to cry anymore, you don’t listen to that song…

— Jay Asher

I have used that song ["50ft Queenie"] and I'm a big PJ Harvey fan. I think she's fantastic.

— Dylan Moran

I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own…

— Lucy Lawless

Solomon was a musician and David was a musician, so it's a profession that I take seriously.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I think if you're creating music, and you love the song, holding it back is just doing it an injustice.

— Shawn Mendes

There's so many things about Babymetal you cannot just grasp with the sound. The visual has to compliment the sound, the costumes…

— Suzuka Nakamoto

I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities."

— Eddie Vedder

I'm really bad writing the chase scenes or fighting scenes. I'm much better for writing, like, a more melancholic or tragic music.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts…

— Stephen Sondheim

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

— Lindsay Lohan

“If I died tonight Everything would be alright The pain would be gone And life, life would be a new song”

— Atarah L. Poling

I want somebody to hear my song and say, 'You know, man, I've been through that.'

— Omarion

If it's the right song for me, I'll get on that song. It's not about the individual. It's about the music.

— Nav

Growing up in the neighborhoods I did in Oakland, you don't know the Beatles, but I started learning their songs.

— Fantastic Negrito

No Matter Which Song I Hear, All I Can Imagine Is Your Beautiful Face, By This, It Is Truly Very Clear, I…

— Babloo

Here's where it goes with Led Zeppelin. It didn't matter what was going on around us, because the character of Led Zeppelin's…

— Jimmy Page

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve…

— Charlie Haden

I don't ever want to tie a song in a little bow. Life doesn't work that way, and war doesn't ever work…

— Mary Gauthier

If you listen to five nights of Led Zeppelin back to back they are all different.

— Jason Bonham

I would love to do a collaboration with Lil' Wayne. I would have loved to sing on his song, 'How To Love.'…

— Stephanie Mills

The Hokey Pokey. Think about it. At the end of the song, what do we learn? What is it all about?... You…

— Martin de Maat

I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.

— Britta Phillips