Song Quotes · Page 669

The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling."

— Akiva Goldsman

There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with.

— Kris Allen

“At this point I don’t want to mix music and computers. Just like it’s not good to mix friends and work, and…

— Haruki Murakami

I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

— Isaac Hanson

I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.

— Joe Jonas

As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.

— Rachel Lambert Mellon

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be And so I put this on my life Nobody or nothing will ever…

— Jay-Z

“music puts me in touch with life's energy and death still hanging like an old crow on the vines of my mind”

— Hanna Abi Akl

Music will still be a big part of our environment. The Bible talks about choirs of angels and how there is singing…

— David Berg

Women have innate talents and exceptional abilities that go unnoticed by our society, and that women themselves often do not fully appreciate.…

— Laurie Cabot

Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I…

— Lester Bangs

We treat the lyrics like the woman any man wants to impress the most. We give the lyrics all the attention we…

— Garth Brooks

“Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe, and also a hovel…

— Don Campbell

You cannot play the piano by telling a pianist what to do, go a little more to the left or to the…

— Massimo Vignelli

I think people should be able to have at their behest, like, four hours of music, entertainment, visual knowledge, different pathways[.] That's…

— Jon Anderson

There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There's one guy who plays…

— Eric Clapton

Even though the people decide very much what's consumed on the outside, inside, the music industry is still very much a gatekept…

— Raye

At a certain point, I should start to pay attention and make sure I'm not damaging my vocal chords, because I enjoy…

— Martina Sorbara

So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.

— Callie Thorne

When you're making the record, you're not thinking about an audience, but you still need them and you want them.

— Alexis Taylor

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

— John Scofield

Artists and the traditional record company model are at odds. The music business has notoriously taken from the artist. That shouldn't be…

— Steve Stoute

I’ve always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I’ve never lost sight of that.

— Natalie Merchant

For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.

— Christine McVie

When I first started writing, I wrote really sad, emotional songs which were all slow.

— Anne-Marie

I love going back to vinyl! I still have a great vinyl collection that I'm building up every couple of months. It's…

— Brendon Urie

With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.

— Tom Wopat

Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open…

— Anonymous

In my household growing up in Fayetteville, N.C., music was the great communicator between my parents and me.

— Brian Tyree Henry

I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.

— Kesha

I feel like the 'Supernova' record, those songs are very me. It's a more honest representation of me than any record I…

— Jim James

I was mostly self-taught on guitar and that had its benefits. It's a great thing to work through problems on your own.

— Julian Bream

I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies…

— Nicki Minaj

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

— Vanessa Paradis

“I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and that is Bruckner.”

— Richard Wagner

The life that I live and the experiences that I have always affect what comes out of me creatively. I think that's…

— Josh Turner

Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you…

— John Lydon

I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements.

— Richard Patrick

I just wanted to make sure I had the music true to me and the life I'm living and to what I…

— Demetria McKinney

When I turned 14, I became very obsessed with writing songs, and it took over my existence.

— Diane Warren