Song Quotes · Page 777

I write good songs out of fear... fear of failure. Because if they're not good enough, you feel yourself starting to fall.

— Ezra Furman

I still like to keep all the love songs for the Grobanites, I like to make sure that they know those are…

— Josh Groban

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

— Brian Harvey

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums unless they're divorced and trying to get back at…

— Josh Homme

Chuck Berry's 'Maybellene' hit the airwaves at about the time Alan Freed got to New York, and it was definitely a song…

— Robert Christgau

I've been heavily, heavily tuned into the DJ Khaled album, 'Major Key,' which has some major, major plays on it, up and…

— Enzo Amore

As songwriters, we can go in and write for other artists in a time where you aren't necessarily feeling inspired for yourself.

— Jessica Origliasso

There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.

— Ernie Isley

We went from being thought of and talked about as "a band that plays a so-and-so style of music" (a grunge band,…

— Bent Saether

My mother and father didn't know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and…

— Peter Tosh

You can just sit in your car or get in the shower and make up a song, sing a whole melody and…

— Susan Tedeschi

In rock n' roll, we don't sell records at all like we used to. Yet the artist still has to pay to…

— Duff McKagan

When I first heard bands like Tortoise, it seemed to come off the back of that world, like let's make a record…

— Kieran Hebden

We recorded Star Climbing over a three-year period between our studios, working on songs and lyrics until we felt like we had…

— Stuart Price

When I was a youngster, I wrote all this music - it just came out of me - and I think record…

— Fantastic Negrito

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different…

— Michael Bolton

Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life,

— Taylor Swift

We wrote a song, while sitting on a trampoline & we loved it so much that we ended up recording it as…

— Taylor Swift

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

— Elvis Costello

To me, relaxing doesn't mean that we play ding-dong songs and look at a wall of bamboo. It's just completely unoriginal.

— Marcel Wanders

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

— Darius Rucker

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs…

— George Gershwin

I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.

— Paloma Faith

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility…

— Charlie Hunter

No trouble no fuss, .. I know why. It's so nice, I wanna hear the same song twice.

— Brad Nowell

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

— Ronald Perelman

Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood.

— Michael Franti

I'm not the fastest drummer in the world, but I'm very into dynamics and knowing that there's space in between the notes…

— John Densmore

As with many pop acts, your shelf life isn't that great, we peaked with our first album.

— Declan Donnelly

I'm not the only one that's joined in the Maro Itoje song, to be honest with you!

— Alun Wyn Jones

The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I…

— Ben Folds

I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.

— Bebe Rexha

Things that Never Cross a Mans Mind is probably one of my favorite upbeat tempo songs because it is just a sassy…

— Kellie Pickler

Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.

— Blake Judd

We work pretty fast. I might be working, and I might knock out two, three songs. Quavo might come in two, three…

— Takeoff

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it…

— Fiona Apple

I love playing the new songs live. I hate playing a new song and then having to play an old song again,…

— Katie Stelmanis

For making music for myself, I just need to be happy. I'm the producer, the director, and the listener.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

“The best song of life is yet to be sung; the best dreams of life are yet to be dreamed.”

— Debasish Mridha

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means…

— Mat McNerney