Song Quotes · Page 792

People can't work out my music, but neither can I. I just put it together. I don't know how it happens.

— Tricky

“A song can last long after the events and people in it are dust and dreams and gone.”

— Jodi Picoult

I think I just have to be myself. No one can write the songs I do, and no one can sing the…

— Astrid S

But if you work in the rock industry, you should realize that the most important bands are the troublemakers.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like…

— Holly Near

Metal needs to be exposed to more people, so it's good for rock if there's bigger bands.

— M. Shadows

When you think about it, we sold about 120 million records, which relates to about £1.2 billion in the U.K. economy. We've…

— Ian Gillan

With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know…

— Luc Ferrari

Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They…

— George Saunders

The internet seems to be what a lot of independent bands are doing these days. They're bypassing the studio - the big…

— David Gilmour

I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way.…

— Tom Petty

You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it…

— Zakk Wylde

Music is something to live for. It is just for me, nobody else can take away from me.It makes me so happy…

— Eliza Doolittle

“I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and…

— Lady Gaga

I got a toy guitar at a fundraiser and was trying to write songs with it that were ridiculous. After a week,…

— Soccer Mommy

I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was…

— Ted Danson

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is…

— Kelly Clarkson

For people to link my music to their lives, it's incredible, there's no other feeling like it.

— Adele

I think music can be therapeutic and a really positive thing, but that seeing a therapist is the best form of therapy…

— Olly Alexander

Frank [Zappa] was not a big fan of having lyrics, but sometimes he had things to say that lent themselves to lyrics.

— Gail Zappa

Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in…

— Kevin Bacon

The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

— Ritchie Blackmore

Mem'ry All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days Life was beautiful then.

— Trevor Nunn

A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words,…

— Taylor Swift

Growing up, all I cared about in a song, before I really listened to lyrics, was that beat.

— Walker Hayes

I just can't bring myself to see Sabbath without Bill Ward, because he was such an integral part of that band.

— Joey Jordison

I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll pull them tight to…

— Brandi Carlile

I was short and I had a really high voice, and now my voice is low and I'm tall.

— Greyson Chance

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

— Robert Glasper

I was listening 'Plastic Ono Band,' the John Lennon album a lot, and that might have had some inspiration on me.

— Rostam Batmanglij

There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to…

— Duke Ellington

“Dude: What do Pink Floyd and Dale Earnhardt have in common? Me: The wall was their last hit.”

— Jason Myers

If I was 13 years old and Kurt Cobain tweeted me some advice or even just said hi, my whole world would…

— Mark Foster

When I think of my high school days, the song that I think about is Deana Carter's 'Strawberry Wine.'

— Lainey Wilson

I grew up listening to a lot of classic jazz, and stuff like The Beatles, and old Motown stuff, and a lot…

— Alison Sudol

I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much…

— Patty Griffin

The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and…

— Sun Ra

I'm always very conscious because I like to give time between records, even though I feel like I write music that will…

— Visionist

Music completes me in a way that nothing else ever will. It saves me every day, gives my life a purpose, and…

— Anonymous