Song Quotes · Page 804

I think some songs are better on vinyl. I would rather listen to it in a club! 80% of this album; put…

— Brendon Urie

Crackdown had Dave Ball playing on it. Flood worked on our next album, and Adrian Sherwood worked with us on Code.

— Stephen Mallinder

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it.…

— Paul Stanley

Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative…

— Anonymous

I hope that I do make music that can speak to anyone. I don't just want to play for a queer crowd.

— Jake Shears

To me, there are 3 parts of the album process: writing, recording, and my favorite part: getting to sing the songs with…

— Eric Hutchinson

Anytime you've got artists singing songs, doing grooves that they don't want to do, it's terrible.

— Wilson Pickett

I write songs to handle emotional pain. I guess what they say is true: with every heartache comes a great song. I…

— Matt Sorum

“Sing me a pretty love song as I start to cry Tell me you love me as you wipe the blood from…

— Rachel Lloyd

When your 18th, 19, 20 years old like we were at that time, its just like anyone else, you look at like…

— Butch Walker

My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My…

— Damien Dempsey

There is another sort of day which needs celebrating in song -- the day of days when spring at last holds up…

— Anonymous

I've never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I'm an emotional player. I don't really like people. I…

— Tori Amos

I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts…

— Willie Nelson

There's songs that could either be taken as a conversation between two people, like "The Privateers," or "Why," from a much earlier…

— Andrew Bird

God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills…

— Joaquin Miller

Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.

— Neil Innes

My dad encouraged anything I wanted to do, especially music. Actually he drove me around to places where I could play.

— Jason Aldean

“Aoi: Our motto is: music is music, therefore there should not be any boundaries or intolerance.”

— Aoi

I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

— Black Elk

So sexy go crazy my baby no maybe if you want me so sexy come and sing your song.

— Bob Sinclar

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

— Ken Hill

We've never written anything to have success with it. We've written songs that we love.

— Nuno Bettencourt

Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the…

— Bruce Springsteen

"Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry…

— Guy Garvey

I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.

— Burt Bacharach

I've always felt that all the music I've made is psychedelic, including Throbbing Gristle.

— Genesis P-Orridge

My song 'Smooth Operator,' I think that's a real simple, easy, sing-a-long kind of song. It's not too complicated.

— Big Daddy Kane

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

— Anonymous

Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.

— St. Lucia

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

— Adam Rich

Anyone knows that my music isn't just centered around sex. It's thought-evoking and feeling-evoking.

— Omarion

Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.

— Billy Joel

The only thing my mother would say to me about my music - I'd say, "Mom, listen to this," and she'd say,…

— Ornette Coleman

What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.

— Ernest Klein

Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don't have a major label, it's like, what are we gonna do next? You…

— Yolandi Visser

My mom who was deadset against anything country. I remember being a kid and my dad would play Conway Twitty and she…

— Uncle Kracker

“With a musical work, no matter how intellectual or dramatic its foundation, its test ever will be its value as pure music.”

— Gustav Kobbé

It's the way I like to work for these kinds of songs [like "Peace Trail"]. It was the right time of the…

— Neil Young

There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.

— Jimmy Page