Song Quotes · Page 134

I feel like Sony appreciates good music from a talented artist.

— DMX

I'm a songwriter and I'd love to make that a part of my career.

— Condola Rashad

My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

— Jerry Harrison

I've never had anything as formal as vocal lessons.

— Paolo Nutini

I think it shows when you have to work too hard on a song.

— John Prine

I listen to a lot of music from outside, lot of background scores.

— Amaal Mallik

Glorious the song, when God's the theme.

— Christopher Smart

Skillet better thn drugs best song ever:)

— Natalya Johnson

That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.

— Kurt Cobain

Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Taylor Goldsmith and I hit it off big time, and so we started writing some songs together.

— Chris Sullivan

Rock seems a little bit redundant now because it really is what country is. It's the voice of America and rock 'n'…

— John Waite

I don't understand why people are going mad about the lyrics I write? Do they expect everyone to become Mirza Ghalib?

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

My inspiration comes from God, so I always have to be open, kind of like being an antenna. I like to write…

— Brenda Russell

Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music…

— Derek Bailey

One Night' is a really different song than most people are used to hearing from me, being that a lot of my…

— Matthew Koma

I find myself a lot more open to bands if I just hear their song. It gives you an opportunity to engage…

— Win Butler

People always lean toward who's the best guitar player, who's the best singer? I don't see it that way. They're all the…

— Gregg Allman

The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are…

— David Edwards

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually…

— Brian Eno

True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Yeah, except that when I write pop songs I have pretty strict constraints that I impose on myself. 69 Love Songs is…

— Stephin Merritt

I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night.…

— Kid Rock

Having a band was part of my heart's desire, musically. Within myself, I was saying that, 'Not until you have a band…

— Burning Spear

The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them.

— How to Dress Well

“The best song in the whole wide world is one that reminds us of something.”

— Abayomi Kayode Patrick

A lot of the inspiration for my album 'Rules' was the cheekiness of Aqua.

— Manila Luzon

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

— George Eliot

A song's lyrics can't be held culprit for the overall change in society.

— Adnan Sami

I love song and dance films in Bollywood.

— Tabu

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

— Robert Browning

Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.

— Yanni

The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive

— Taryn Manning

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

— Anonymous

Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.

— Andy Summers

Over to the jukebox I staggered for a love song to scatter my body before her.

— Kim Mitchell

I'm not a fan of that sort of punky, heavy, tinny stuff. I like a nice melody.

— George Harrison

“Silence composes the music of the cosmos; darkness sees it dance.”

— Huseyn Raza

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

— Robert Plant

From a young age, I took an interest in the music and my mom noticed it.

— Morgan Wallen