Song Quotes · Page 692

I have a good life. I have nothing to complain about, and the music is just too interesting.

— Patricia Barber

I've been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it's happening quick and I feel good about it, and…

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles…

— John Lennon

Music is an escape. It's like going into a time machine, it takes you wherever you want to go.

— IsiahNunn

Usually a song being hard to write is a sign that the song isn't good enough. It should be like a good…

— Oh Land

I use my music to kind of lead my feelings. I feel like if I make a happier sound, I will be…

— Lil Tracy

Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say…

— Peter S. Beagle

I don't like all these people slagging her for breaking up the Beatles, don't blame it on Yokey.

— Bare Naked Ladies

My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was…

— Lalo Schifrin

I honestly don't remember how I wrote or did the songs. Or the sessions. They all become very much a blur. And…

— Lenny Kravitz

Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a…

— Shania Twain

“You're every song I have ever sung. I'll never let anything hurt you again. For the first time in my life, my…

— Abbi Glines

At the end of the day, they're happy if you do the obvious songs towards the end of the set and you've…

— Rick Allen

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where…

— Eric Hoffer

We grew up listening to so much hardcore: everything from the very early D.C. stuff - Teen Idols, Minor Threat, Dag Nasty,…

— Davey Havok

I'm a composer, music director, singer and performer. So it is a Bollywood rule that people don't know who has sung a…

— Ankit Tiwari

I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the…

— Michael Azerrad

When it feels like the lyrics to the song you're listening to were written just for you..

— Music

The regular rhythm and upbeat tunes of military music or marching bands positively affect your mood even if you don't actually 'enjoy'…

— Liz Miller

Rich kids who write songs about food stamps always piss me off. I'm not going to write any songs about that, either.

— Neko Case

“All bands eventually break up because of one or more of the four P's: power, property, prestiege, pussy.”

— Dave Mustaine

It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

— Barry Gibb

Van Halen stood out from the corporate rock clones being churned out monthly by the music industry.

— Marky Ramone

There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human…

— Mstislav Rostropovich

Music was a way for me to almost speak things into existence before they even happened and to build confidence.

— Darren Waller

Loving you is hard and wanting you is wrong; like a paper full of words without the melody of a song ...

— Anonymous

Everything I hear influences me. I can't tell you all my influences as a musician.

— Lemmy

“Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II is an album that readily serves as background music to its own telling.”

— Marc Weidenbaum

The Dave Clark Five had more appearances on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' than The Beatles.

— Paul Shaffer

The mst beautiful music is your heart beat. It gives an assurance that you will survive even when the whole world leaves…

— Aldyna Threesya

When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.

— Cass McCombs

I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story.…

— Renee Fleming

I feel so lucky that I feel the music is at the forefront of Audioslave, and the songs are the most important…

— Tim Commerford

'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth…

— Robert Gottlieb

It's a complicated story [hoe I got into music ]. I actually wrote a book about it, titled For Sue.

— Jon Gordon

I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.

— James Taylor

Who can fail to mist at Fergie's anthem, 'My humps, my humps, my lovely lady lumps.' Hmmm. 'My lunch, my lunch, I…

— Celia Rivenbark

I think the rock audience still likes to have a physical product. The demand for owning a physical copy is still there.

— Steven Wilson

I love when I dive into lyrics that give me human complexity and intricate narrative.

— Christine and the Queens

I was the drummer in a band called Hemsworth for a brief stint, too - it was not very great. I didn't…

— Ryan Hemsworth