Song Quotes · Page 712

I'm really focused and obsessed with writing things that are specific. I don't like big rock lyrics - I find them infuriating.

— James Murphy

I was obsessed with harmonies and how to put songs together in lush soundscapes. But I don't know what it was all…

— Dan Smith

I love songs with, like, six or seven or eight different things going on at once, and that's just me.

— Jacob Collier

See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is…

— Helen Van Wyk

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the…

— Dolly Parton

My music is about all these things that happen to you while growing up in search for some kind of truth.

— MO

I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

— Marianne Faithfull

I'm not a fitness model; I'm just a singer. If people focus on that, that's what I care about.

— Alessia Cara

There are those songs that hit you in the gut - when you're the one performing it and you see the effect…

— Maddie Marlow

Destiny set up our meeting at that party,the band playing a slow song at that moment was fate,asking you to dance was…

— Michael Hayssus

What song do I like to sing at karaoke? Well, it used to be...what's that song? Holy crap, I can't remember the…

— Allison Mack

I was talking to my dad about the stuff he grew up listening to, and 'Operation: Mindcrime' is a record that he…

— M. Shadows

In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often…

— Margaret Wise Brown

'Jelly,' more than any black musical before it, celebrated the majesty, the purity, the joy of so many artists who are unable…

— George C. Wolfe

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I played acoustic guitar so intensely, for so long - for nine hours a day as a 10-year-old, writing songs through the…

— Mark Duplass

I always get pissed that I can't make my voice sound like someone from the 50s who had a very girly, innocent…

— Bethany Cosentino

There's always a melody running around in my mind and my brain; and I'm really thankful for it.

— John Debney

“Music calms the soul and improves the plasticity, flexibility, and sensitivity of the perceptual world.”

— Debasish Mridha

I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Everyone knows the power of a song and it takes you back to that place. Just that power of words can heal.

— Jimmy Wayne

My fingers are crossed for 'Dekh Lena.' I believe it has shaped very beautifully and also visually the song looks fabulous.

— Tulsi Kumar

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

— Paul McCartney

I'm just growing so quickly, so my songs are quickly changing on me. But it's fine. I love them for what they…

— Shawn Mendes

[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can…

— Stewart Copeland

I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.

— Kelly Rowland

Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.

— Daniel Ek

When punk came along, it made perfect sense to me. I found it melodic. The Clash, Buzzcocks.

— Fred Armisen

Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't…

— Caroline Polachek

“I'd like to hear your opinion on this piece of Beethoven. And remember, it is not Beethoven who is being examined here.”

— Paul Strathern

With music I feel like it's the one time when I don't have to think and I don't have to contrive anything.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

Btw Pink Floyd album out in October is called 'The Endless River.' Based on 1994 sessions is Rick Wright's swansong and very…

— Polly Samson

You know why Guns n' Roses aren't a good band? Because no black people listen to them.

— Anton Newcombe

I have a hard time even calling myself a musician, but I still have to be involved in music in some capacity…

— James Paxton

For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.

— Charlie Watts

I feel the reasons my songs might seem dark is because of how I viewed the situations I was in and it…

— James Vincent McMorrow

I need to get as deep as I can into my own heart to really make people connect and react to the…

— Kyle

Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.

— Herbie Hancock

I always felt each instrumental and vocal inflection had to be special... I'd spend almost as much time on those as I'd…

— Roy Orbison

I don't think you can reach the same highs working in a band as you can on your own.

— Kevin Parker