Song Quotes · Page 698

We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.

— Michael Hutchence

Being in a band is like a marriage because you have to care about everybody because you're all living together.

— Susan Tedeschi

He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around.

— Julian Lennon

It sounds a little cliché, but I wanted to capture some of the feelings or sounds that I heard when I listened…

— Bucky Pope

Lyrics always fall short with the amount of energy thrown into the playing. Lyrics to some extent are just the product of…

— Brian Chippendale

I think Black Eyed Peas are kind of unique in the ways they produce their songs. Their songs are very current.

— Steve Pink

Because the only thing that punk rock should ever really mean, is not sitting 'round and waiting for the lights to go…

— Frank Turner

Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.

— Sam Smith

We try to make air-tight, intricate songs with melodies and counter-melodies and rhythms that work together, and we try to make it…

— Fab Moretti

Revamp is a band that would deserve the hundred-percent devotion a band needs, and at this moment, I don't see any future…

— Floor Jansen

With a four-string, the middle range is less of an option. That kind of 5th that you play on those A and…

— Bill Orcutt

“Because music is the heart’s greatest librarian. A few notes had the ability to transport me back in time, and to the…

— Kate Stewart

“What did you do in your songs? I don’t know, I’ll never know, you say. Someone else will write them about me,…

— Alice Notley

I love melody, and that's what I love about pop music. The words can become what they are through a special melody.…

— Anna Ternheim

I don't physically put Appetite For Destruction in and listen to it, but I hear it on the radio or at sporting…

— Slash

Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar..I might as well go back over yonder,…

— Jimi Hendrix

People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.

— Hayley Williams

I'm not here to write a song for you, I'm here to help you write a song for yourself.

— Miguel

Music is a beautiful thing to listen to. It is not a thing to preach to others about, it’s not a cause.…

— Synyster Gates

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

— Anonymous

My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my…

— Mitski

My favourite member of the Beatles is Lennon. He might have been crazy. But he's my kind of crazy.

— Patrick Rothfuss

There are some songs we do, like "Last Chance," I love it! But sometimes you just don't like your voice on certain…

— Ginuwine

I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.

— Ringo Starr

The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.

— Lara St. John

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute…

— John Mayer

I'd like to release solo songs on a regular basis, but it's pretty difficult for me to finish them.

— Rostam Batmanglij

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

— Kurt Elling

Gotta love her SHOUT OUT TO MY HOMIE MILEY CYRUS, even she maybe a whore but gotta love ha songs 2 doe

— Anonymous

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

— Wyndham Lewis

A lot of people with a range of styles and vocal tones make all kinds of music for all sorts of audiences.…

— Kim Zolciak-Biermann

The reason that Shaft has a dominant theme song is because James Bond has a dominant theme song.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

What I love about Zeppelin is that you can listen to their entire catalog and kind of see where they were at…

— Lzzy Hale

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of…

— Arthur Helps

The rhythm of sitar cannot be created with chords of guitar and vice versa as both the instruments have a distinct purpose…

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.

— Gene Simmons

Some songs are sort of born in the studio but some songs are really half-written in the studio.

— Ron Mael

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.

— Travis Barker

That's something Pentatonix tries to do in all of our music. We try to keep it clean so that everybody can come…

— Kevin Olusola

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.

— Dave Navarro