Song Quotes · Page 693

I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not…

— Calvin Harris

Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red…

— Mark Kozelek

I love how music and chants were used in the Civil Rights movement to help people keep marching. How songs were both…

— Jamila Woods

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

— Justin Guarini

The coolest thing about doing live shows is I'm able to give the songs a new life. So even thought they're old,…

— Sabrina Carpenter

The first song I wrote was called 'You,' and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist.

— Courtney Barnett

We all enjoy the band and what we're doing, but we know this isn't gonna last forever.

— Shannon Hoon

I work really hard to keep my life in music focused on what needs to be done and to allow myself the…

— Hardwell

Oh Jesse, paint you pictures, 'bout how it's gonna be. By now I should know better, your dreams are never free. But…

— Joshua Kadison

Because my musical background is so diverse, it lends me to have very much my own style and it helps me to…

— Casey James

I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a…

— Dave Douglas

Nat doing 'Fault' was the greatest thing for our band, and the only reason that our song got in it because Nat…

— Alex Wolff

I think of life as guitar strings; each string represents a stage of life. The first, thinnest string, is the first 10…

— Amber Hope

There's so much that can be done on the guitar. And that's what is so good about the guitar - everyone can…

— Jimmy Page

I was in bands as a singer-guitarist-songwriter until 1980-81. So, there's a bunch of stuff. A lot of the stuff is hard…

— David Torn

When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did…

— Alicia Keys

My dad had an acoustic guitar, and I remember I was like 12 when I started learning to play chords.

— Ellie Rowsell

I hate nothing more than feeling rushed to write a song or feeling like I have to write a song.

— Madison Beer

Massive Attack has always been more of an experiment than a band or even a collective.

— Robert Del Naja

When we go somewhere, when we go play Spikeball on the beach or when we go hiking or when we go literally…

— Benson Boone

Once the song is done and recorded, I like to go back and then cut the drums, because then I know exactly…

— Tommy Lee

I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.

— Annie Baker

The great thing about "Shoot 'Em Up, Baby" is that it's the first song that we went and recorded [with Andy Kim].

— Kevin Drew

Most bands people have side projects and it's not considered a death threat as it was say, with The Beatles.

— Stevie Nicks

'Spinal Tap' influenced me, I think, specifically in making me really pay attention to tone.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

My dad thinks he is a guitarists XD hes downstairs and I'm upstairs listening to him scream and 'play' the gutitar XD…

— Patience

I was a huge fan of this band called Sparks. It was a pretty good inauguration to music, since their music is…

— Johan Renck

The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.

— Plato

Reality is that even if you come out with a really good song, all will go to waste without good promotion.

— Seungri

The only goal right now that I can have, the only thing I can offer right now, is the need to get…

— Julian Casablancas

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and…

— Billy Bragg

I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying…

— Phillip Phillips

I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.

— Sergei Prokofiev

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

— John Berryman

“There is a music that forms sometimes, from the pairing of two people. An inescapable cadence that continues on.”

— Jason Mott

In Holland, there's a song that goes, 'Redheads - they know how to kiss.' But that's obviously not a song I made.…

— Lotte Verbeek

The punk era, at its best, celebrated questioning the norm and the promotion of originality. Both concepts have always resonated with me.

— Prabal Gurung

I always hope that my music can inspire someone, the same way other artists inspire me.

— Kelly Rowland

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

— Erin McKeown

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

— Bruce Springsteen