Song Quotes · Page 682

Ring the alarm man, call me the sandman. When I drop beats I'm the one man band man.

— Swizz Beatz

If something is done really well then the question of live vs. DJ vs. instruments vs. drum machines doesn't matter - it's…

— Bonobo

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

— Heinrich Heine

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

— Michael Tilson Thomas

I believe a band has to evolve rather than making the same album over and over again, because if you do, sooner…

— Shavo Odadjian

I often use the same harmonies as pop music because the complexity of what I do is elsewhere.

— Ennio Morricone

Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long.

— Lord Chesterfield

Yes, I did lock myself in my room for about two years and write some songs and things like that. But I…

— Hunter Hayes

I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing.…

— Ornette Coleman

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

There's nothing I really wanted to record more than Bach. It's wonderful music. It's - on a grand scale, there's a lot…

— Hilary Hahn

The government did a lot of things to us in terms of sending pictures to my house. If I had to go…

— John Carlos

“I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme,…

— David Byrne

My pacifism came after I joined the army and was shipped over to Korea. There was a little one-room orphanage there called…

— Utah Phillips

Let's not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded…

— David Blunkett

It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical…

— Kurt Weill

I think my songs are singing to the rural heart. It's not whether you're from a big city or the middle of…

— Rodney Atkins

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and…

— Immanuel Kant

Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics…

— Cat Power

It can only sound one way with the Prodigy - vicious, banging and, yeah, incites a riot.

— Keith Flint

“I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even…

— Peter Bradley Adams

I've been through the music industry and with the Internet the music industry is not what it used to be.

— Jeff Gutt

So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.

— Ikue Mori

Every Christmas my hometown radio station would always play 'Christmas In Dixie' by Alabama. I always remember lovin' that song.

— Kenny Chesney

I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm…

— Kaskade

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I wanted to learn how to do everything a person could do on a guitar. Of course, that was impossible.

— David Bromberg

On the piano, I cover all styles. I turn to it for inspiration in sport, and whenever I need my rest.

— Ralph Hasenhuttl

While it's great to have a live interaction with the audience, you only have one chance to nail each song.

— Jonita Gandhi

For our third album, 'Love Frequency,' we've gone back to our old style. The album is full of songs that people can…

— James Righton

As cliche as it sounds, there's a reason why people always say that music has no language; it transcends language barriers.

— Jonita Gandhi

The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.

— Ed Simons

I care about making music and I care about creating experiences for my fans with my music and my videos and my…

— Steve Grand

I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music,…

— Big Sean

“Music is joy and sorrow, celebration and loss. healing and pain, bondage and freedom. Whatever you are... music is.”

— Angelique La Fon-Cox

I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck…

— Phil Anselmo

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

— Dave Barry

“The search for a proper tempo is not confined to the world of music - one must seek it in life as…

— Zhu Xiao-Mei

I recognize that my voice is kind of quirky, and I don't have a lot of range. But I use it kind…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

The point of my music is to make people feel good. When I do it right, it makes me feel good too.

— Willy Mason