Song Quotes · Page 140

Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down.

— Kenny Chesney

Musicians have been political literally since people were writing songs.

— Maggie Rogers

Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

— Jane Chen

Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time".

— Madonna Ciccone

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

— David Allan Coe

You can apply the same heart, the same sense of euphoria to any genre.

— Stuart Price

I let my music take me where my heart wants to go.

— Cat Stevens

'Woman Up' is a fun female empowerment song.

— Ashley Roberts

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

— Norah Jones

I'm careful what I put out there into the universe, musically. I don't take it lightly.

— Gloria Estefan

When we are making a song for Billie I want it to resonate and speak the truth with her and want it…

— Finneas

My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my…

— John Tesh

Beethoven was always too much. He's not slightly anything - he's very everything.

— Simon Rattle

Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty…

— Al Jourgensen

I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself…

— Carrie Brownstein

I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

“All this security and prospects are different for different people. Somebody is happy playing music and with a less pay, somebody is…

— Ravindra Shukla

Sometimes I've been to cryin' for unborn children That might have made me complete But I, I took the sweet life and…

— Maureen McGovern

I'll never forget when me and Jason Matthews wrote the line, 'Don't be a tape player hater,' in 'Country Man,' I don't…

— Luke Bryan

I grew up in the '70s, and I hear in my own stuff a lot of what I grew up listening to,…

— Jason Robert Brown

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal…

— Clark Gable

I want to expand jazz; I don't want to keep the audience limited. I want to reach people who have never come…

— Charlie Haden

Every project might only sell like 30 to 50,000, but I mean, I'm getting seven, eight dollars every CD. I make more…

— Freddie Gibbs

I've known Prince for many years - I worked on the "Raspberry Beret" video - and Kirstie [Alley] and I used to…

— Kirstie Alley

Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.

— Brian Eno

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

— Dan Fogelberg

Gunna was the second person I ever made a song with.

— Lil Baby

“Cut the crap, no-bullshit rock’n’roll, no arguments allowed, mate.”

— Mick Wall

In the end, the best music will always rise to the top.

— John Carter Cash

I have to write pretty songs; that's what gets them on the charts.

— Nicky Jam

I just got an ear for the kind of things I like.

— Lil Baby

We all know this: Music is such a fundamental part of life.

— Bozoma Saint John

I think music is a spiritual way to communicate transcendental things.

— Christopher Owens

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

— Herbie Hancock

I'm a drummer that's what really I am, and it's gone downhill from there!

— David Essex

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.

— Charlie Parker

I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

— Rosanne Cash

Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.

— Ned Rorem

I like to see myself as a composer first and only then as a singer.

— D. Imman

My dad loves Pearl Jam so I had to like them as well.

— Luke Hemmings