Song Quotes · Page 775

For anybody who writes, very often, when you finish an album, you are so done with it. You've been listening in minutia,…

— Gerry Beckley

You need to have your favourite song. The one that reminds you how it all began. Make sure she never forgets it.

— James Merrow

I was actually really stunned that my label suggested 'Door' as the single to lead with, as it's such a long and…

— Caroline Polachek

New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of…

— Huey Lewis

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

— Grant-Lee Phillips

I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now…

— Jeff Beck

I don't like videos that explain the song. I like it to be kind of abstract, like a painting.

— Shavo Odadjian

Music moves the deepest emotions, stirs buried memories, makes one forget yet creates new feelings and sometimes cures illness too.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well…

— Joan Jett

I had, like, a keytar. I was always attracted to the guitar, but I never really thought that I could be good…

— Lzzy Hale

Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and…

— Aaron Copland

I think that fear came from, "Okay, I'm going to have Beyoncé in the title, and people are just going to think,…

— Morgan Parker

I just want to carry on the way we [ Joy Division] are, I think. Basically, we want to play and enjoy…

— Ian Curtis

Well, I've been on stage my whole life. Also, when you're doing music videos, a lot of people don't understand. They think…

— Glenn Danzig

One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think…

— Chaka Khan

Success is being artistically fulfilled and happy. You can't control how people see your movie or how much money it makes...and the…

— Ansel Elgort

You're listening to [the songs on Random Access Memories] and they're future classics. They've brought the sound of something that's been lost…

— Todd Edwards

Music's in my soul. Everyday and every night I think of how thankful I am to have music in my life.

— Tricia Cuffee

My mother was a classic matriarchal figure. She'd sing round the house and always had music on.

— Bill Bailey

Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a…

— Rodney King

Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible.

— Nikki Sixx

Dad would always play Ray Charles in the car on the way to swimming, then we'd sing musicals. Now my heroes are…

— Jessie Buckley

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the…

— Dolly Parton

See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is…

— Helen Van Wyk

I love songs with, like, six or seven or eight different things going on at once, and that's just me.

— Jacob Collier

I was obsessed with harmonies and how to put songs together in lush soundscapes. But I don't know what it was all…

— Dan Smith

I'd like to write a big rock anthem again. I just need to listen to Korn, and then I might get the…

— Robert Plant

I'm really focused and obsessed with writing things that are specific. I don't like big rock lyrics - I find them infuriating.

— James Murphy

I am really picky when it comes to writers. I like it when people push me and tell me that my lyrics…

— Chappell Roan

If I could be in any band, I think it would have to be The Beatles. That would have been a lot…

— Jason Behr

It's important for me to write songs that feel good to sing every night and remind me of my core, truest beliefs.

— Lucy Dacus

I always loved those songs. And with my high tenor, I thought I was pretty good - you know? - almost as…

— Johnny Cash

The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with…

— Daniel Ek

You can only follow what's on your mind. In fact, a song is something you write because you can't sleep unless you…

— Joe Strummer

With my songs and music, it's a way of sharing things with people that really have to do with me.

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

When I start working on a new album, I kind of stop listening to a lot of outside stuff just so I…

— Jose James

I usually write songs when I'm in a car by myself and it's usually dangerous because I'm writin' and drivin' at the…

— Ludacris

Lala-lala lala-lala Elmo's song. Lala-lala lala-lala Elmo's song. Me write the music, me write the words, that's Elmo's song.

— Elmo

I started singing when I was four years old; that was the first time I took a voice lesson.

— Cassadee Pope

Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

— Yogi Berra