Song Quotes · Page 788

I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try…

— Ludacris

I think more people wanted to sound like the Ramones than The Velvet Underground. So many bands try to imitate us. Anywhere…

— Marky Ramone

The thing about doing gigs is you make music, and then it is gone and that is being watched by thousands of…

— Katie Melua

Luckily, there's enough people who have recorded songs that I can just go online and kind of figure out how to play…

— Regina Spektor

Music is part of the tantra, the dance of life. Before your eyes, before your awareness, is the procession of eternity.

— Frederick Lenz

My goal in my career is to inspire people, is to get my music out there and have people enjoy it, and…

— Christina Grimmie

You just need the ear. But the ear is something, I guess, that you can't buy. And I can't play the piano…

— Metro Boomin

My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads.

— RuPaul

I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about…

— Kate Voegele

There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so…

— Barbara Lazear Ascher

Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to…

— Utada Hikaru

I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some…

— Aaliyah

The frequencies of the notes in a scale—do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do—sound to us like they’re rising in equal…

— Steven Strogatz

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my…

— Lou Reed

It's very important to have a good song - one where you can strip away all the production and just play it…

— Lights

I don't feel anything about it. I really like "Staring at the Sun" - I like that song a lot. I haven't…

— Justin Vernon

Though 'KK' is an urban film and has more scope for fast-paced numbers, I've made sure that there's a bit of melody…

— Vidyasagar

I've been traveling around to play music since before I even had a driver's license.

— Steve Forbert

I have sung, but I haven't sung in any way that I would ever call myself 'a singer.'

— Jennifer Grey

I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell…

— Schoolboy Q

Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to…

— David Sanborn

I'm never gonna be a Carlos Santana - an instrumentalist. I just like songs. It's three minutes of something that can be…

— Steve Forbert

Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.

— Sade Adu

You listen to your favorite song just until you're almost getting sick of it, and then it's so fun to rediscover it…

— Anna Kendrick

You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of…

— Jonathan Cain

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

— Nina Simone

I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen.

— Anthony Bourdain

If you notice in my own films the blending of songs is distinct. They narrate stories and scenes.

— Gulzar

Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.

— Keith Jarrett

Me, l'm a weird person, so my music is kind of weird, but l want my music to be weird.

— Denzel Curry

When I'm working on my music, I take special care to make sure the sound is perfect.

— Yo Gotti

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

— Andy Gibb

I watch movies and hang with my family, go shopping, love to cuddle with my dog, Happy, & write songs with my guitar!

— Megan Lee

We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild…

— Flea

I've never written songs, I've never brought any songs to System, but as far as arranging, I've always had arrangement ideas.

— John Dolmayan

I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like…

— Billy Corgan

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I was such a massive fan of all the '60s pop bands, but if I had to single out one band, it…

— Paul Weller

If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as…

— Lavinia Greenlaw

Of course, we haven't spoke to anybody at Island Records about this yet, but you should go ahead and print this, because…

— Pete Wentz