Song Quotes · Page 727

I'm with you once more under the stars and down by the shore an orchestra's playing and even the palms seem to…

— Beegie Adair

I sit a lot with my lyrics - I don't write just to write or put a line in just to have…

— Snoh Aalegra

My original goal was to get into the Top 100. I listened to every song in the Top 100 every day. I…

— Porter Robinson

Life is so mundane, isn't it? It's great to hear a guitarist getting into it and the rhythmic section blasting, even if…

— Paul Rodgers

Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye.

— Wynton Marsalis

I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

— Bobby Sherman

I feel like all my songs slept-on. I'm not complainin', but I just wanna drop more heat.

— Lil Tjay

I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

— Lupe Fiasco

If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But…

— Kurt Masur

“Sing before the spirits and dance with the earth deities And you will be able to compose your own tune. Then you…

— Hongzhi Zhengjue

In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't…

— James Taylor

Hey there Delilah What's it like in New York City? I'm a thousand miles away But girl, tonight you look so pretty…

— Nikki

There are no leftover Tool songs because of the process it takes to compose our songs - the way we hash it…

— Danny Carey

I feel it's quite important to have a band but what's more vital is to be friends with the members of the…

— Atif Aslam

Sometimes when you start writing a song, you dont know where theyre going to lead you. You just kind of follow the…

— Mike Campbell

Often by the time writers and producers try to get a new hit song, the industry has already moved on. Whatever you're…

— Poo Bear

…the songs are universal enough that in ten years time they should still hold up quite well.

— Greg Graffin

To be able to do a song with Kanye West and then a video with Hype Williams who directed the video, that's…

— Paul Wall

It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus.

— Paul Weller

I think when you look back at the different eras in jazz, what leads from one to another is never a melodic…

— Stefon Harris

“For songs are the heart of our memory and they let us live the search for meaning in our lives again and…

— Judy Collins

They're very different things, a poem and a song, you wouldn't think they would be, but they are.

— John Cooper Clarke

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

— Dar Williams

What I liked about grunge was the realness. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't glamorous.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in…

— Dick Dale

Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness.

— Sri Chinmoy

I'd like to do an anthology. Maybe a collection of songs set in my world, or based on my world. I think…

— Patrick Rothfuss

That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it's a happy song and I can still feel sad in…

— Shane McAnally

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

— Aldo Leopold

Its funny how we remember lyrics to like so many songs, but can't remember to study for a test. that's me!

— Anonymous

There are two kinds of music: good music and bad music. Both are and will continue to co-exist.

— Shankar Mahadevan

I will say this: I've always sort of had maybe an inflated sense of my ability to sequence songs in a narrative…

— Rodney Crowell

I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really…

— Mike Shinoda

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes…

— Mick Jagger

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.

— Perry Farrell

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or…

— Sinead O'Connor

Sometimes it takes a tragedy to bring people together, Other times it just takes music.

— Pink

The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice…

— Black Elk

“Music is undescribable, and no words can be said to understand it. The only way to understand it is to hear it.”

— Allyson McClain

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.

— Michael Stipe