Song Quotes · Page 695

The Clash is pretty much my favorite band, and their songs like 'Rock the Casbah' are political dance tracks.

— Vic Mensa

I feel like the theme song to 'Duck Tales.' 'Life is like a hurricane; it's a duck blur.' That's absolutely what it…

— Alaska

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were…

— Andres Segovia

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to…

— Ben Harper

The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices.

— Deepak Chopra

You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.

— Miles Davis

I think the origins of music have probably to do with magic and transcendence as well.

— Justin Adams

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It…

— Charlie Watts

“They’re musicians, Bucket. The only way a dead body would upset them is if it fell in their beer, and even then…

— Terry Pratchett

I don't listen to anybody's full record anymore and when I did, I don't think I listened to the whole record. I'm…

— Tommy Lee

Inspiration comes from books, music, films and of course, living memories and life experiences, my own and those of people I've known…

— Suhayl Saadi

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of…

— Etta James

When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a…

— Carla Bruni

Most of the time I don't even talk about any direct lineage of songs, because I feel like it just chains them…

— Regina Spektor

I turn the music up, I got my records on I shut the world outside until the lights come on. maybe the…

— James Merrow

I was really scared to make this album and to make this song. Because I didn't want to talk about it. For…

— Logic

Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

— Carl Sandburg

I had been writing songs from the age of 7 or 8 years old, and they were so bad. But it was…

— Raye

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.

— Jim Morrison

I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly…

— Jose Gonzalez

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and…

— Jillian Hervey

Music is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing.

— Glenn Branca

If you told me in the '90s that I'd be in a chart battle with Green Day, I probably would have just…

— Ted Dwane

I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have…

— Frank Zappa

I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I…

— Lil Wayne

I like big, soaring melodies and fun, splashy lyrics. Maybe like what Blondie would do in 2013.

— Bonnie McKee

After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes,…

— Alan Light

I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.

— Yael Naim

Sometimes albums can be quick, sometimes they take forever, and we're very good at taking forever.

— Curt Smith

When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural.

— Pusha T

Kurt [Cobain], from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold…

— Brett Morgen

Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

I think that the wonderful thing about music and about songs is that you can listen to a three-minute song whenever you…

— Ben Gibbard

Bandmates argue, bandmates make up. Sometimes there are members that don't get along, sometimes they become best of friends.

— Marky Ramone

Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.

— Neil Young

Who wanna be next? While you a dead superstar, the record company still cashin' checks.

— Master P

When I first heard my song on the radio, I started crying. My baby was out there, and it all became very…

— Sigrid

The harmonica is the most voice-like instrument, you can make it wail, feel happy, or cry. It's like singing the blues without…

— Charlie Musselwhite

I sing a few backing vocals but Im not much of a singer. You wont see me on 'X Factor.'

— Dion Dublin

Rock stars against drugs--that's what we want, isn't it? Government-approved rock-n-roll? Woo! We're partying now!

— Bill Hicks