Song Quotes · Page 736

Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.

— Jon Pareles

I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing…

— Kim Gordon

“The greatest performances where when fingertips took away a very thin veil between people and uncovered the universe in its entirety.”

— Peter Høeg

There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.

— Jimmy Page

It's the way I like to work for these kinds of songs [like "Peace Trail"]. It was the right time of the…

— Neil Young

“With a musical work, no matter how intellectual or dramatic its foundation, its test ever will be its value as pure music.”

— Gustav Kobbé

My mom who was deadset against anything country. I remember being a kid and my dad would play Conway Twitty and she…

— Uncle Kracker

What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.

— Ernest Klein

What's the coolest thing in the world is when you have fans that know the lyrics to your songs. That's amazing! Such…

— ZZ Ward

My music is also one part of my inner process, and people also seem to connect with me on that - especially…

— Volker Bertelmann

You can't just sing the song and live another life, you know. It's really difficult now because that's not what it's about.…

— Ice T

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll…

— Tim Cahill

I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I was already playing the clarinet and the piano. My father's a piano player. But I wanted to play in a funk…

— Marcus Miller

I tell everybody, if you've got a band that works, it's a miracle. It's never going to be perfect, but if it…

— Steven Van Zandt

But I was in the Radiohead studio today and Phil was there drumming and Thom was there playing. We feel like we've…

— Jonny Greenwood

Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don't have a major label, it's like, what are we gonna do next? You…

— Yolandi Visser

The only thing my mother would say to me about my music - I'd say, "Mom, listen to this," and she'd say,…

— Ornette Coleman

Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.

— Billy Joel

Anyone knows that my music isn't just centered around sex. It's thought-evoking and feeling-evoking.

— Omarion

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

— Adam Rich

Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.

— St. Lucia

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

— Anonymous

My song 'Smooth Operator,' I think that's a real simple, easy, sing-a-long kind of song. It's not too complicated.

— Big Daddy Kane

I've always felt that all the music I've made is psychedelic, including Throbbing Gristle.

— Genesis P-Orridge

I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.

— Burt Bacharach

"Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry…

— Guy Garvey

Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the…

— Bruce Springsteen

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

— Ken Hill

We've never written anything to have success with it. We've written songs that we love.

— Nuno Bettencourt

I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

— Black Elk

So sexy go crazy my baby no maybe if you want me so sexy come and sing your song.

— Bob Sinclar

“Aoi: Our motto is: music is music, therefore there should not be any boundaries or intolerance.”

— Aoi

Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.

— Neil Innes

My dad encouraged anything I wanted to do, especially music. Actually he drove me around to places where I could play.

— Jason Aldean

I write songs to handle emotional pain. I guess what they say is true: with every heartache comes a great song. I…

— Matt Sorum

Anytime you've got artists singing songs, doing grooves that they don't want to do, it's terrible.

— Wilson Pickett

To me, there are 3 parts of the album process: writing, recording, and my favorite part: getting to sing the songs with…

— Eric Hutchinson

I hope that I do make music that can speak to anyone. I don't just want to play for a queer crowd.

— Jake Shears

I look for something universal in songs rather than something personal. I look for something that will give us a platform for…

— Will Kimbrough