Song Quotes · Page 132

I don't listen to my own songs that much.

— Koffee

In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone.

— Craig Finn

Beethoven can't really be great because his picture isn't on a bubble gum card.

— Charles M. Schulz

Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom.

— Ed Kowalczyk

My dad is a huge rock n' roll lead guitar fan.

— Slash

Music is an expression of life, who you are, and what you've been through.

— Kamasi Washington

There's this raw, basic quality people expect in my music.

— Billy Squier

Ain't nothing quite as beautiful as music.

— Eyedea

My foot was broken in the middle of a song... In front of 12 thousand fans and Taylor Swift...I won't tell you…

— Justin Bieber

Whenever I've improved, gone up a level in sound-making, it's been because I've done an album.

— Jon Hopkins

Part of 'Beyond The Music' is also the notion that no matter what came of us, or the band, the most important…

— Milo Aukerman

Norm Lewis, who plays Jake in 'Side Show,' and I had a song together in 'Tommy,' and I understudied Mrs. Walker.

— Alice Ripley

The 'Beacon Street' record was kind of like a b-side to 'Tragic Kingdom,' but it came out before 'Tragic Kingdom,' so it's…

— Tony Kanal

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

— Ned Rorem

Michael Jackson's album was only called Bad because there wasn't enough room on the sleeve for Pathetic.

— Prince

I am a Christian, and since the age of five I have been singing... chanting hymns containing the word 'Hosanna.'

— Amy Jackson

I don't really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't…

— Paul Smoker

I've always been fascinated with sound, since I was a little kid when my mother Dorothy Dean took me to my first…

— Mike Dean

Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is…

— Glen Campbell

The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated…

— Kevin Ayers

Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know…

— Zakk Wylde

To have a song work for the movie, it can't just be written apart and shoved in. It's got to come out…

— John Hughes

I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though…

— Jennifer Egan

That's kinda what happened to me: I listened to jazz, country, R&B, rock 'n' roll. And when I sat down to write…

— J. J. Cale

I always had a musical bone, I guess if you will.

— Morgan Wallen

It's very hard for me to write a generic song that could be sung by anybody.

— The-Dream

We want metal to be dangerous again. How cool would that be?

— M. Shadows

The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.

— David Lee Roth

You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.

— Warren Cuccurullo

I've always been very good at helping other people finish their songs.

— Rostam Batmanglij

My obligation is to release the music the way Frank [Zappa] released it.

— Gail Zappa

In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation.

— Terry Bozzio

Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music

— Shania Twain

You can't live in Austin and escape the music.

— Terrence Malick

Oh so it was some festival that had Darth playing a violin?? What the heck?

— Amber Hope

I have literally been working in music just about my entire life.

— Eddie Trunk

You can change the way you think by listening to different types of music

— Nikhil Saluja

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

— Michala Petri

I've written 90 percent of the songs in my career, on all my albums.

— Toby Keith

I don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song.

— David Bryan