Song Quotes · Page 676

Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back.

— Jay Michaelson

I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that I'm ever gonna write a…

— Ed Sheeran

Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.

— Henry Rollins

Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.

— Ian MacKaye

Creating the perfect lyrics is not a process, it's just something that comes in your brain.

— Jadakiss

I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous…

— Linda Ronstadt

There are a lot of reasons for a singer to get a film song. It doesn't only require talent, there are a…

— Rahul Vaidya

I don't quite know how the urban music category came about, but I suspect it had something to do with trying to…

— Chris Ofili

I write most of my stuff. When I'm rejected in music, it hurts worse than when I don't get a role, because…

— Taryn Manning

When you're writing a song and there are five people invested in it, it's easy for one person to say, 'Oh, this…

— Jason Mraz

~i miss the taste of a sweeter life I miss the conversation I'm searching for a good song tonight I'm changing all…

— Maroon 5

I'm just going to go out there, and if people want to put me on the front of their magazine or whatever,…

— Kris Allen

“The fading dawn colors revive momentarily, and the sky shines with lilac and daffodil, layering colors in clouds like quilts stacked on…

— David George Haskell

A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice…

— Lisa Loeb

Legions of young hip-hop fans are as against this as hip-hop's most fierce critics. There is a huge underground movement within hip-hop…

— Bakari Kitwana

My parents never pushed me towards music. I feel like, growing up in a musical household and always being surrounded by it,…

— Dua Lipa

I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of…

— Bobby Keys

Some people can only freestyle, some people can only make certain types of songs. I can do it all.

— Jadakiss

And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.

— Kid Rock

Another important time when I feel most alive is when I hear a song that I love so much that all I…

— Renee Marino

There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful.

— Jason Reeves

Nirvana was a band that led you somewhere, as opposed to all the grunge bands that began and ended with themselves.

— Jens Lekman

I'm not somebody who can tell if the song is good enough to be pushed until I hear what it sounds like…

— Gabby Barrett

Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

— Namie Amuro

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

— Tori Amos

The drum is the heart of music. The saxophone can play and then rest, as can all of them except the drums;…

— Jo Jones

We all have a song that somehow stamped our lives, that takes us to another place and time ¥

— Isabella

Because God loves us, he gives us lyrics to sing when our hearts can't form words.

— Jennifer Rothschild

Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.

— Lou Reed

A lot of people build up a backlog of songs and you can kind of go, 'Let's explore that song we did…

— Russell Mael

But our wounds are part of who we are...and there is nothing left to chance…And pain's the pen that writes the songs…That…

— Michael Card

I guess certain kinds of jazz music could be Crunk. But the average jazz song, no, it's not Crunk.

— Lil Jon

I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the…

— Laura Mvula

I think we internalise a great deal. Music can draw that stuff out of even the hardest person.

— Santan Dave

We were trying to step outside the box. We were in the studio thinking and it sounded like a good name, there…

— Travis Porter

I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.

— Randy Bachman

When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the…

— Johnny Mathis

My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I…

— Kanye West

I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.

— Courtney Barnett

I kind of question whether to say this or not, but it's almost like the Allman Brothers turned into an Allman Brothers…

— Dickey Betts