Song Quotes · Page 689

People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new.

— Trombone Shorty

When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by…

— Jason Pierce

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

— Jimmy Page

You don't necessarily have to write a song to make it your own. After all, Elvis never wrote a song in his…

— Leo Sayer

I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.

— Tyler, The Creator

Normally when you write for an orchestra, you think about melody and harmony and countermelody.

— Ludwig Goransson

“From key signature to coda, from downbeat to the sound of life's final fermata, our pasts set the tone for all that…

— Jamie A. Hughes

There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.

— Larry Mullen, Jr

I was enamored with music at a very young age. Everything started with kundiman, then evolved to Carpenters, Barbra Streisand, Barry Manilow,…

— Arnel Pineda

I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the…

— Jorma Kaukonen

I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be…

— Dana Hill

“Familiar like a forgotten song from long ago that takes you back to a moment the second you hear it. And you…

— Katy Regnery

I started writing songs in high school and always wanted to have a band, and eventually my creative endeavors developed into Theocracy.…

— Matt Smith

From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone…

— Jello Biafra

When I produce other people, that's the thing I can do well because I've been in a band, and I can play…

— Ric Ocasek

When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and…

— Ray Davies

The key thing is to get that one splash - that one song or that one video for a song - that…

— Denis Leary

Herb Wong was an incredible man. We met when I was performing with Clark Terry at the Wichita Jazz Festival around 1974.

— Dianne Reeves

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in…

— Hal Sparks

I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my…

— Andrew McMahon

Always keep a song in your heart - it's like karaoke for the voices in your head

— Robert Fulton Abernethy

I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of people can relate to.

— Blu Cantrell

There are plenty of very different sounding bands that could be H.O.R.D.E. bands.

— John Popper

Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm…

— Bill Bruford

Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as…

— James Cagney

I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.

— Britt Daniel

The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of…

— James Russell Lowell

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

— Bryan Adams

“Until the song is sung and the musicians have all gone home, not even you can tell which notes made the melody.”

— Karen Miller

All the colors in my life are colors that you left behind. All the songs that I sing are from thoughts that…

— Anonymous

Music is magic. It's my favourite drug: it really has an effect on me mentally and physically. It's such a rush.

— Craig Nicholls

It used to be OK to have two or three songs out a year - and those are your singles. Now, they…

— Jay Sean

I'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.

— The Edge

I rode an elevator with a guy who was whistling the tune of 'this is the song that never ends'. Putting that…

— Taylor Swift

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax…

— Billy Joel

My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.

— Meredith Monk

I try to sing every number to the best of my ability, and I am glad people like it. I believe every…

— Mohit Chauhan

A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as…

— Idina Menzel

Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he…

— Mark Helprin

I think it's really cool when any of your songs play on the radio for the first time.

— Gabby Barrett