Song Quotes · Page 802

Well, I know they've always told you/ Selfishness was wrong/ Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this…

— Neil Peart

Without Ace of Base, I kind of feel Backstreet Boys would have never found their sound.

— Nick Carter

Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology.

— Anonymous

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

— Kris Allen

I never want to make my music sound like what someone else is doing. That's not my thing.

— Scarface

I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial.

— Igor Levit

There's so many STP songs that are just classic to me, and just so influential in my musical growth.

— Jeff Gutt

“I knew I’d have to face the music eventually, but for now, I was more than happy to procrastinate.”

— Rachel Bach

Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta…

— Dan Bern

A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was fortunate enough to be living in Hollywood, CA, when the underground punk rock music scene started. It was a small…

— Charlotte Caffey

I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an…

— Sufjan Stevens

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own…

— David Bowie

...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how…

— Arthur Rubinstein

I mean, in 1979 I was seven. I do remember punk, though, as a playground phenomenon, and remember that it was exciting…

— Quentin S. Crisp

“You have millions of fans. Everyone around the world loves your songs. How can that not be enough?" "Because music can't tell…

— Bella Andre

But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen.

— Jim Coleman

Anytime you throw claps back to back on a song, it makes everybody want to get up and have fun. It's a…

— Mustard

That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.

— Neil Young

As D Day Gives Way To Night, I Miss U Having By My Side. My Heart Is Singing D Song To Say,…

— Anonymous

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

— Carlos Santana

It's a gamble. A band like Kiss, a lot of those are our audience but we don't do as much make-up. Alice…

— Anonymous

I had all these songs lying around. They had all these woman characters, and I thought the idea of the Woman King…

— Iron & Wine

When I'm writing, I can't listen to anything with lyrics, because it's too distracting.

— Katy Wix

Early on, I tried to sing, but sustaining a note was something I wasn't comfortable with. So I tried to get off…

— Dion DiMucci

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind…

— Jakob Dylan

They didn't know how my heart woke to a range and measure of song I hadn't known.

— Hilda Doolittle (1886_1961

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

— Anthony Kiedis

In an arena, with Girls Aloud, it's a big production and you don't have time to talk to the crowd about the…

— Nicola Roberts

I think it's all about the music you listen to along the way. For me, my parents always played Motown music and…

— Bishop Briggs

If you can take it to the next level and really tell an interesting story in a unique and fresh way, then…

— Bonnie McKee

I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.

— Darius Rucker

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

“She was prone to whistling bits from 1960s movie musicals and had secret fantasies of being joined in song by helpful blue…

— Joe Hill

The most rewarding thing of my success has been the ability to use my music for many different causes that have become…

— Five for Fighting

There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in,…

— Zachary Cole Smith

The world is filled with people who are no longer needed -- and who try to make slaves of all of us…

— Woody Guthrie

Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music…

— Wynton Marsalis

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

— Robert Smith

I was in band all the way through high school, and I played in jazz competitions all across Iowa.

— Joey Jordison