Song Quotes · Page 790

I sit a lot with my lyrics - I don't write just to write or put a line in just to have…

— Snoh Aalegra

I'm with you once more under the stars and down by the shore an orchestra's playing and even the palms seem to…

— Beegie Adair

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

— Neil Diamond

I really enjoy going out with my jazz group. That's something that I don't ever want to stop doing.

— Dianne Reeves

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.

— Kesha

I'm really just concentrating on making good music, whether it's using a sample or doing an original track.

— Rahki

There's too many favorite songs, so I'll just say right now my favorite song of all time is 'Poison' by Bert Jansch.

— Kurt Vile

I achieved something specially different with Love To Love You Baby and I Feel Love. These songs will endure.

— Giorgio Moroder

I've always been making stuff. I had a very free upbringing, and very encouraging parents. I just found that it was a…

— Ida Maria

We were number one most added at radio, when the single came out and that's much different. It took like eight months…

— Jon Crosby

“Find yourself a local,” she advised, “and have cake by the ocean.” When I gave her a blank look, she smacked her…

— Mia Sosa

The first music you really fall in love with is more than just music. It's something that clicks in you beyond the…

— Taylor Hanson

I want to create something that you haven't heard lyrically before. It's part of my job, and even though some of my…

— Justin Rutledge

“This is the core challenge of speaking up with an original idea. When you present a new suggestion, you’re not only hearing…

— Adam M. Grant

To me, I always felt like drums have to be the support and the driving factor in a song, and there's places…

— Vinnie Paul

Don't forget that Mozart worked on commission. He almost always would write something if he knew exactly who was paying for it…

— Eric Weiner

And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.

— Bobby Sherman

“Q: What songs do Santa’s gnomes sing to him when he comes home freezing on Christmas night? A: Freeze a jolly good…

— Uncle Amon

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

— Mika

When I'm writing, I try to think about what would make a song better before worrying about personal opinions.

— Phoebe Bridgers

I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with…

— Mose Allison

Springsteen is a hero to a lot of people in New Jersey. He's a role model - because he's a local guy…

— Brian Fallon

In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it…

— Bob Dylan

'Dogfight' holds a special place in my heart, and I try to sing the songs whenever I can.

— Lindsay Mendez

I've seen bands split up for five years and do nothing. That sounds great to me, but it just hasn't worked out…

— Joe Perry

Simple music can make you sing, a simple hug can make you feel better, simple things can make you happy. I hope…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.

— Ethel Merman

No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of…

— Julius Caesar

Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.

— Sam Hunt

People would think I wouldn't like Noel Coward. I think he was the original punk in a lot of ways. You know.…

— Kathy Burke

Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear…

— John Milton

We don't really talk about music that much, to be honest with you. It's not some I usually - I can't really…

— Sean Booth

“Everything has been composed, just not yet written down. LETTER TO LEOPOLD MOZART [1780]”

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

We never could have foreseen the success of 'Babel.' It's not like banjo records were soaring up the charts, you know.

— Ted Dwane

My mom is the piano player in my dad's church - she's also the choir director - and she's just a musician…

— Marc Martel

The reason I connected with music was because of the stories that people were telling and making me feel when I listened…

— Amber Liu

Sometimes I feel guilty for skipping songs on my phone like I'm sorry song I love you I'm just not in the…

— Kendrick Cole

To me as a fan, as a die-hard AC/DC fan, Brian Johnson is the reason I discovered AC/DC.

— Jim Breuer

Listening to my records, you feel one way about it when you hear it, but reading my words - that makes us…

— Scarface