Song Quotes · Page 746

You kinda don't know what's going to make a good song. You've got to shoot around in the dark for a little…

— Ne-Yo

Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.

— Lykke Li

I could not do much to prepare before I recorded for 'Highway,' because I didn't really even know what I was being…

— Jonita Gandhi

My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatevers coming next.

— Jeff Mangum

No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?'

— Skrillex

Every song you make Joe is really hoe music. I heard you said you wasn't a bitch because you sing. You a…

— Common

I think then I write, give my thoughts a light, begin pondering about life. Break it down then roll up the lyrics,…

— Raghib Clitso

I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born…

— Mac Davis

I'd got married and wanted to have kids, so had kids, brought them up, did other things, and slowly got back into…

— Kim Wilde

It's easy to say that reducing a song to 90 seconds on "American Idol" strips off so many things, and how it's…

— Alan Light

He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs.…

— Alan Lomax

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal…

— Taylor Swift

It's like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to be soulmates. Or book. Oh…

— John Green

I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks…

— Kari Matchett

Many artists would want a major label. But, if someone made you big, it doesn't mean they're no longer good enough when…

— Romeo Santos

I wrote a song a good long while ago, 'I Ain't Livin' Long Like This,' that has been around and been recorded…

— Rodney Crowell

I'm not a person who opens up to people, and I feel like music is my way of doing that.

— Little Simz

Music companies are not technology companies any more than technology companies are music companies. They're really different from each other.

— Steve Jobs

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

— Leif Garrett

I just want to make good music that, you know, appeals to all people, man. I want to branch out and you…

— Ruben Studdard

Part of what makes music so interesting is the lack of consensus on just about any given topic.

— Michael Hersch

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll

— Patty Duke

The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance.

— Jeff Buckley

Dream Song: As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the…

— Frances Densmore

My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail…

— Cassandra Wilson

I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how…

— Charles Stuart Calverley

The larger streaming grows, the less money there will be to get the music out there, which, to me, is the sad…

— Justin Tranter

It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music…

— Tommy Shaw

No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock.

— Dave Grohl

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will…

— Dimebag Darrell

Jimi Hendrix was the master of live stuff. He was my inspiration to do the yo-yo, everything he did on stage was…

— Jason Becker

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

— Deepak Chopra

I believe honesty comes across in music because for [most] people music isn't just something to dance to.

— Willa Ford

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the…

— Ambrose Bierce

Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the…

— Lee Ranaldo

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable…

— Brian Eno

When I first wanted to play guitar it was because I had seen Brian Setzer. He's so good! I mean I was…

— Kim Shattuck

Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear... I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play.

— Rick Nielsen

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

— Mark Foster

Technically it was really hard to render the right way the second album on stage.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo