Song Quotes · Page 799

There's no separation between electronic music and acoustic music. It's all one thing. Each song has its own heartbeat. Each song has…

— Banks

It feels great to be able to put the mic out and 40,000 people all sing the lyrics back at you.

— Sky Blu

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about…

— Ty Segall

I knew I didn't have the right name for a singer. Having a name that nobody could pronounce was hardly an asset.

— Scott McKenzie

“Music on the radio. When I went in, the big bands were just getting up a good head of steam. Now every…

— Stephen King

We'd rather be a band that some people are going to passionately hate than be a ringtone band.

— Sam Endicott

To do a band properly does kind of mean you don't really get to do anything else.

— James Murphy

“Izzy’s new band also featured Tracii Guns on lead guitar. They were calling the new group Guns N’ Roses.”

— Duff McKagan

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first…

— Alvin Lee

I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of…

— Jeffrey Tate

When I was child, I saw the 'Ram Leela' performed on stage. Now there is the film 'Ram Leela,' and its maker…

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

I have only a couple of Super 6s now, but I do have quite a few black-face Fenders around the studio. They…

— Derek Trucks

This is a setback. You get back up, you dust yourself off, and you get back in the game. We had a…

— Don King

From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what…

— K'naan

I have faith in the idea that there will be another hit, but I'm also totally happy if there's not, because I…

— Gnash

One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato." That's what he said.…

— Michael Jackson

I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I…

— Rosemary Clooney

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

— Gabriel Marcel

When the human being hears music, he has a sense of wellbeing, because these tones harmonize with what he has experienced in…

— Rudolf Steiner

Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four…

— Dave Van Ronk

I wish you'd listen closer to the songs I play because the lyrics speak the words I fail to say.

— Sushan

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

— Stan Getz

“Music has the power to shake society, especially if the bass is turned way up.”

— Jarod Kintz

“The creative process is beautiful and magical thing. Whether its a song, a radio story, or a novel, it all springs from…

— Greg Kihn

The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting…

— Jennifer Egan

I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're…

— Vince Gill

When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was…

— Trombone Shorty

It's [Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life.

— Jane Monheit

I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.

— Alan Palomo

I'd love to write a song that someone else sings that can actually sing really well.

— Bo Burnham

There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.

— John Cage

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.

— Joni Mitchell

Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.

— Henry Rollins

“Adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the chord of monotony is stretched most tight, then it breaks…

— G.K. Chesterton

I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.

— Jessie J

A lot of people hear the records on the radio, they aren't absolutely sure who exactly Tears For Fears is, they just…

— Roland Orzabal

For my theme song, my leather black jeans on. My by any means on, pardon I'm getting my scream on.

— Kanye West

Taking the higher ground can be difficult, so it really helps when you can write those feelings into a song.

— Bishop Briggs

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

— Bill Wyman

Right, those relationships with your parents and family are the hardest to figure out, and the same patterns get carried into a…

— Stone Gossard