Song Quotes · Page 763

Some songs are sort of born in the studio but some songs are really half-written in the studio.

— Ron Mael

I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.

— Gene Simmons

The rhythm of sitar cannot be created with chords of guitar and vice versa as both the instruments have a distinct purpose…

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of…

— Arthur Helps

A lot of people with a range of styles and vocal tones make all kinds of music for all sorts of audiences.…

— Kim Zolciak-Biermann

The reason that Shaft has a dominant theme song is because James Bond has a dominant theme song.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

What I love about Zeppelin is that you can listen to their entire catalog and kind of see where they were at…

— Lzzy Hale

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

— Wyndham Lewis

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something…

— Tori Amos

I ended up gettin a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids…

— Jason Newsted

I don't think there is any such thing as a song that is completely great or good. A lot of songs becomes…

— Darren Fletcher

Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the…

— David Del Tredici

Too often, politics is like bad theater. The mass media simplifies stories and personalities into their most basic, digestible and familiar bits.…

— Kevin Hassett

I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key,…

— Chuck Mangione

“In fact, had there been less discussion of the syntactical construction of Schoenberg’s music, and more of what it says, people might…

— Malcolm MacDonald

Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued…

— Aristotle

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

— Kurt Elling

Gotta love her SHOUT OUT TO MY HOMIE MILEY CYRUS, even she maybe a whore but gotta love ha songs 2 doe

— Anonymous

I'd like to release solo songs on a regular basis, but it's pretty difficult for me to finish them.

— Rostam Batmanglij

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute…

— John Mayer

I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.

— Ringo Starr

The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.

— Lara St. John

My favourite member of the Beatles is Lennon. He might have been crazy. But he's my kind of crazy.

— Patrick Rothfuss

There are some songs we do, like "Last Chance," I love it! But sometimes you just don't like your voice on certain…

— Ginuwine

My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my…

— Mitski

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

— Anonymous

Music is a beautiful thing to listen to. It is not a thing to preach to others about, it’s not a cause.…

— Synyster Gates

I'm not here to write a song for you, I'm here to help you write a song for yourself.

— Miguel

I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.

— Luke Temple

I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be…

— Keith Urban

Everyone in my family can sing - my momma can sing, my cousins. I was in the third grade and I was…

— Ester Dean

When I listen to something, I like to be taken out of my seat and thrown across the room. If it sounds…

— Rory Gallagher

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

— Norman Granz

We don't fight about music. We don't fight about artistic direction. The things like that we could fight about, we really don't.…

— Alan Cooper

Probably not much of a song left in me, you know, if any, because I've written so many, some 250 songs or…

— Brian Wilson

There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate.

— Gustav Holst

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

— Edward Abbey

There is not enough time, there is no song I could sing, there is no combination of words I could say...

— Anonymous

Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?

— Robert Schumann

Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

— Kassie DePaiva