Song Quotes · Page 743

Some songs are so touching to the heart it makes you think that it was made for you. Also some are so…

— Anonymous

I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world.

— John Petrucci

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

— Kurt Elling

We dont want the lyrics of our songs to necessarily stand out but we want them to sound really natural and fit…

— The Wanted

It takes a long time to write 10 good songs. Sometimes you have to write 30 to get 10 good ones.

— Eddie Rabbitt

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a…

— Debbie Gibson

'Honey' was the first song I wrote where I was really enjoying myself again after questioning the idea of being an artist.

— Robyn

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

— Herbie Hancock

Kansas has always considered itself a "rock band" - some people might say "symphonic rock band," others might say a "classical rock…

— Phil Ehart

There is a little bit of a head vs. heart kind of battle that happens sometimes with the song. There's the goose…

— Josh Groban

The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in. The…

— John Prine

When I was 18 years old, I went on the road with my dad after I graduated from high school. And we…

— Rosanne Cash

“We might all believe in something different. We might all think and feel and look different but, we're all here for one…

— Telle Smith

The nice thing about doing a pop opera is that, because the convention is set from the beginning that this is an…

— Lea Salonga

I'd be the last person to tell anybody to stay in their lane. If I had done that, I'd be on 'Where…

— Everlast

One of the big mysteries of music is, if you take music without words, it means something to us because we know…

— Tod Machover

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

— Annie Lennox

In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it.

— Debbie Harry

I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful…

— William Arthur Ward

To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact…

— Ryan Adams

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

“But Blake infused hope in his music. Love was the only song he knew how to play.”

— Debra Anastasia

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.

— Conor Oberst

It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even…

— Jimmy Chamberlin

I get so into playing the bass. The only time I ever feel the same way is when I'm having sex; it's…

— Melissa Auf der Maur

Baby it's you. You're the one I love. You're the one I need. You're the only one I see.

— Anonymous

If you just focus on making singles, you lose the personality of the record. Because everything is not meant to go to…

— Tracy Lawrence

I knew The Beatles before because we did our first television with them, 'Thank Your Lucky Stars.'

— Dave Clark

I was very lucky - how many people can say they did a song with John Barnes and played football with him?

— Big Narstie

And I said, 'Why not? It's the truth! Why can't I say I'm a Beatles fan?' I used to get criticized for…

— Buck Owens

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

— Joe Elliott

I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.

— Eric Whitacre

We went on to become the No. 1 band in the country for three or four years. And that was probably the…

— Butch Trucks

Some of the songs have a tinge more pop this time. I wanted to go into different worlds.

— Heather Headley

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

— Chuck Mangione

“music is rhthym and a melody,without music we will have no joy and beats because our heart beats when there is music”

— Music is my life

“Physical space between us evaporates. We play the broken strings of our instruments one last time”

— John Green

Drums with a pump like some Reeboks. See me from the treetops. They worry but they need not. Heating like a teapot.

— Mac Miller

One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.

— Gavin Bryars

No one ever told me I had a good voice or anything; no one ever told me I could sing. They just…

— Jacob Anderson