Song Quotes · Page 773

My songwriting process is painful. Songwriting is brilliant. It's a load of fun - when it works. It's really difficult as well.

— James Bay

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

— Richard Thompson

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own…

— Ben Harper

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

— Lester Bowie

“The first two tracks were pop songs from the 1970s, sung in Danish in a style that was best described as Abba…

— Claire North

I was really enjoying playing 'The Sea,' but it is quite an intense and emotional record.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life you have left in our souls!

— Franz Schubert

I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.

— John Sebastian

Things just evolve. I sort of have no control over what happens with the songs. Sometimes I'm afraid I might wake up…

— John Rzeznik

The easiest place to get a natural harmonic on any string is at the 12th fret. All you do is lightly rest…

— Dimebag Darrell

It meant a kind of real liberation of expression. It embraced amateurism in a way that I still am inspired by. It…

— Jim Jarmusch

If music ever needs FDA approval in the future, bands like this will be the reason why; Magic Kids' sugar-coated songs paint…

— Anthony Fantano

I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire…

— Queen Latifah

I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the…

— Steve Vai

“One day you'll hear that song you both liked on the radio and it won't make you cry. You'll wake up one…

— Alexandra Potter

I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at once. The goal is…

— Dave Sitek

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.

— Barry Mann

Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts…

— Macklemore

I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was…

— Reba McEntire

Life is a song sing it, Life is a game play it, Life is a challange meet it, Life is a dream…

— Talyiah

Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is…

— Alexis De Veaux

I feel like the songs that I write are best when they are performed by an ensemble, rather than by one solo…

— Thalia Zedek

If a singer wants to improvise while recording a song, he has to get the permission of the composer.

— M. Jayachandran

I've never felt the least bit entitled to airplay. Each spin I get means the world to me.

— Frankie Ballard

Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.

— Scott Ian

I'm a song-and-dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.

— Betty Grable

“These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.”

— Brenda Sutton Rose

When I was in high school in the '50s, all pop music - Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard - was aimed at…

— Robert Hilburn

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ...…

— Leonard Bernstein

My ideology was, if I just make very happy music, very happy music, then people will forget about whatever their problems are.…

— Mac Miller

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of…

— Iris DeMent

I always dreamed that I'd be a singer. I didn't dream about being a star or anything. I just knew I wanted…

— Lindsay Pagano

“There's nothing better than playing a song for someone, written by someone, who took the time to write and explain that exact…

— Sarah Gai

But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper.

— Reba McEntire

Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.

— Tommy Mottola

For me particularly, when I listen to or make the music of the team called SHINee, I think that ultimately SHINee is…

— Kim Jong-hyun

I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.

— Ed Sheeran

I wrote my first song when I was seven and that was kind of country. Now I'm just like 'No! Why did…

— Cody Simpson

I download music everyday, I know music is free and so does everybody else you know.

— Vic Mensa

If you go to Tiananmen Square, or go to any public area in China, you will hear my music at some point.

— Kenny G