Song Quotes · Page 675

Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.

— Kaskade

I thought I'd use music to confront the problems that I faced, and it helped. I found a more healing mindset, and…

— Dave Davies

Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.

— John Keats

When somebody asks me what a song or a line is about, I feel like I'm not done writing it yet.

— Jason Isbell

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them

— Barry Gibb

If the music you listen to doesn't leave you motivated & inspired to do good, then it's bad.

— Anonymous

If you want to be happy, you listen to the music; if you want to be sad, you listen to the words.

— Chris Thile

I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always…

— GRiZ

A great drum record has to sound good; in fact, it should sound special. It should capture the richness and the actual…

— Joey Jordison

“I heard the silence pouring from them. The audience held themselves quiet, tense, and tight, as if the song had burned them…

— Patrick Rothfuss

There are records I'll listen to one time and zero in on what's happening, and then I'll listen again to something I…

— Vijay Iyer

A cello can sound like so many instruments, but it's only one, you know, like a guitar; it has percussive qualities. It…

— Luka Sulic

Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious.…

— Garrison Keillor

I am committed now to one thing: lyric sequences. I want the intensity of lyric, but the scope and arc of narrative.…

— Gregory Orr

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works…

— B. B. King

Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be uplifting and not downgrading... it's…

— Gary Wright

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

— Alicia Keys

I was always singing around my house, and my parents thought they should put me into voice lessons just for fun.

— Jennifer Damiano

Homer Collyer's chosen form of self-expression is the piano, although late in life, when his hearing also goes, he takes to writing.

— Justin Cartwright

There's no secret crazy backstory. I actually suck at writing. It takes me forever to write a song.

— Cuco

I miss you when I'm alone at night, I miss you when I hear your favorite song play, but what I miss…

— Tynee Williams

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and…

— Florence Welch

When I sing a song of peace. It soothes the savage beast. Even it understands that I understand at least.

— Gnarls Barkley

You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please…

— Mark Lanegan

I always loved singing. No matter where I was, I would just make up my own stuff.

— Diana DeGarmo

“A friend is someone who hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”

— Carol Hamblet Adams

When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I…

— Stevie Wonder

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

— Colbie Caillat

Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.

— Anonymous

Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

— Mos Def

I have not made many conscious efforts to "re-imagine" songs. I just let them happen the way they're going to happen.

— Bob Weir

I've recorded in Portuguese, too. I didn't set out to just sing ballads or romantic songs.

— Johnny Mathis

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way,…

— Maynard James Keenan

I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.

— Bill Bruford

I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually…

— Mitch Albom

Sometimes I get, "Have you ever thought about doing real music?" I like to think the music I do is real, it…

— Al Yankovic

If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.

— Soulja Boy

You can have favorites but sometimes, when a singer or a composer comes up with a great song, you acknowledge it.

— Jubin Nautiyal

I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

— Ryan Tedder