Song Quotes · Page 123

Certainly, whatever I learn while I'm out solo, I bring back to Fleetwood Mac.

— Lindsey Buckingham

It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying

— John Frusciante

We usually overrecord. Then we boil it down to the cream of the cream.

— Black Thought

“It's you, Jack Henry. It will always be you in every song I sing.”

— Georgia Cates

Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion.

— François-René de Chateaubriand

Music, somehow, breaks through, to everybody.

— Sandra Bullock

“Music move God, just as it does lucifer. Something they both have in common.”

— niyigiraimbabazi Zacharia

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

— Anonymous

There are a lot of bands that have a huge appeal, but I don't understand why. Guns n' Roses. U2. But you…

— Ric Ocasek

Some of the songs on the radio are really outrageous. I listen to the lyric. If the lyric doesn't make sense, I…

— Johnny Van Zant

If we found an ashtray in the studio, we'd try to play it and find a part for it in a song.

— Dusty Hill

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.

— Joe Cocker

Music has changed. You can just throw songs out on iTunes song by song; you don't have to do a whole album.

— Pepa

I was just writing songs because, if a song shows up, you've gotta write it. I didn't know what to do with…

— Benmont Tench

I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls or anything.…

— Harry Styles

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing…

— Tanya Tucker

I know where my heart is and I know that I can make people feel something with my music. I'm quite confident…

— Ane Brun

Now bands have to sing live, now people watch who sings on the record, now people want to hear the real music…

— Rob Pilatus

Other memories stick, no matter how much you wish they wouldn’t. They’re like a song you hate but can’t ever get completely…

— Sara Zarr

I am responsible for what happened to me but if I was to stay there it is kind of a constant reminder…

— Shane Bunting

I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take…

— Garrett Hedlund

If there's no deals being made rappers, what happens to the lawyers. They've got to close their firms, they can't make no…

— RZA

“Knowing the songs - and I'm still learning - lets one envision birds you can hear but can't see. And as always,…

— Carl Safina

For some music, lyrically, the best move is to keep it simple in what it is that you are saying, and just…

— Black Thought

No matter what, I can't sound like John Lennon. But I can do Tom Jones.

— Chris Cornell

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

— John Mayall

How you think of music is how well you play it

— Yo Mama

I think my favorite sound is the sound of someone not playing the bongos.

— Demetri Martin

It's hard enough to get things to work in a musical way.

— Girl Talk

Oh, man, really, from the moment I could articulate, I was all about music.

— John Waite

“I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music.”

— Albert Einstein

With the kind of music I make, I make very individualistic choices.

— Laufey

My harmonies on 'Me & My Dog' are a little extra.

— Julien Baker

“Love will weaken n ground u if u take 4 granted it's purity n song”

— Ellie Williams

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

— Jeff Ament

My records don't go platinum or gold. I think they go cedar.

— Dave Sitek

If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.

— Emile M. Cioran

When I'm songwriting, I like to expand the biggest emotion.

— Ruel

Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

— Celia Cruz

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

— Herb Alpert