Song Quotes · Page 708

The strongest feelings I've had in my life are when love has gone right and when love has gone bad. And I…

— Tom Odell

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

— Brian Eno

To me, relaxing doesn't mean that we play ding-dong songs and look at a wall of bamboo. It's just completely unoriginal.

— Marcel Wanders

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

— Elvis Costello

We wrote a song, while sitting on a trampoline & we loved it so much that we ended up recording it as…

— Taylor Swift

Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life,

— Taylor Swift

There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.

— Ernie Isley

As songwriters, we can go in and write for other artists in a time where you aren't necessarily feeling inspired for yourself.

— Jessica Origliasso

When you find fame, or you get signed to a record label, it's not what you imagined - because you imagined they…

— James Arthur

Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to…

— Kara DioGuardi

There is an actor's responsibility in presenting the emotional content of the lyrics to an audience. But whether you do that in…

— Kurt Elling

Jesus, music has always been my first love. I use music in my work because it's the fastest way to an emotional…

— Johnny Depp

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love…

— Dave Grohl

“But you’ll want me someday? That feeling you once had for me . . . that hasn’t left either?” Our hearts beat…

— Stephanie Perkins

“This is me, God! Elisa. I once saw you in all the world. But the world is dark now, Lord. Full. Full…

— Bodie Thoene

When you love what you do, you just really fall in love with it. Sometimes you record a lot more songs than…

— Jacob Latimore

I've been heavily, heavily tuned into the DJ Khaled album, 'Major Key,' which has some major, major plays on it, up and…

— Enzo Amore

Chuck Berry's 'Maybellene' hit the airwaves at about the time Alan Freed got to New York, and it was definitely a song…

— Robert Christgau

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums unless they're divorced and trying to get back at…

— Josh Homme

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

— Brian Harvey

I still like to keep all the love songs for the Grobanites, I like to make sure that they know those are…

— Josh Groban

I write good songs out of fear... fear of failure. Because if they're not good enough, you feel yourself starting to fall.

— Ezra Furman

I used to sing when I was younger. I left it alone for a long time, 'cause I was like, I don't…

— Dreezy

And for him [Kurt Cobain] to do that [suicide] - I didn't like that. I thought that was just wrong. It just…

— Sammy Hagar

There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like…

— John Milton

I find I always throw limbs here and there in my lyrics. I kind of put my physical self into the songs.

— Martina Sorbara

Great music - say jazz - has that inventive, improvisational quality that tells us something about life.

— Kevin Young

Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on…

— Rob Sheffield

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get…

— Rick Springfield

I can't jump into other people's shoes, I can only speak for me. My songs are pretty much sermons put to music.

— Mike Willis

I am very conscious of first sampling the music and then getting it out for fans.

— Himesh Reshammiya

The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.

— Manuel de Falla

The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware…

— Finneas

I don't sit there writing songs, thinking, 'This would be good for Rihanna.' I don't want to be pitching out like that.

— Sam Smith

I've never been good at being nostalgic, and I've never been able to focus on sound without having a voice that's very…

— Jenny Hval

We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

— Jean-Philippe Rameau

I'm more interested in the meanings and the bands that fill up the spaces known as new wave and post punk.

— Martin Popoff

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

— Gabrielle Giffords

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist…

— Serj Tankian

Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice

— Kripalvananda