Song Quotes · Page 164

The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.

— Keren Woodward

At first, I was a pretty horrific singer, and then I got a little better.

— Gus Dapperton

C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.

— Jamie Zawinski

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

— Lil Wayne

I really hope my music and my life can help encourage people not to give up.

— Mandy Harvey

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

— Anonymous

Anyone of any age or background who loved pop music liked our songs.

— Nicola Roberts

Instead of self harm I sing my heart out.

— Patience

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that.

— Billie Eilish

I don't know any songs. People have asked me to play a song, and I say, "I don't know anything."

— Charlie Day

It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them…

— Paul McCartney

But most of all, the train that kept rollin' all night long of rock n' roll you cannot kill. It will live…

— Steven Tyler

'Konnichiwa,' to me, is a classic because I don't make music for today where everyone is going to judge what I did…

— Skepta

All of our albums are actually pretty similar, it's just the production that's different. Our songwriting is always the same.

— James Righton

The criticism people could have of my music maybe is that it's somewhat schizophrenic at times. And if you don't like that,…

— Mat Kearney

Punk rock wasn't a career choice. It was a hobby that we did for fun. We never thought we'd get as big…

— Dexter Holland

I think, with age, you learn that it comes in bursts and you've got no control over it. I'm not one of…

— Paul Weller

I'd rather see us sponsor culture by pushing more money to music education, and facilities for your people to create music. It…

— Peter Sunde

With the backdrop of The Salvation Army's century and a half of service to the world's poor, these songs and reflections are…

— Sara Groves

Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I'm just the next generation, since it's always…

— Jacob Latimore

We all grew up with Black Sabbath. I mean, there's no secret there. Any of us, any of the members of any…

— Robert Trujillo

My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant…

— Pete Seeger

I had been listening to Jackson Browne, The Eagles, and Linda Ronstadt. Ramones was not my kind of music. Now, I'm a…

— P. J. Soles

Record companies are like cat breeders who find a breed they can make some money off of, in-breed it until it's sickly…

— Michael Penn

'Love Shack' is such an eternal kind of song; at karaoke, people do it.

— Kate Pierson

I'm not good at talking, but I can write a good song and tell a story.

— Jorja Smith

Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.

— Cass McCombs

I- I love you like a love song, baby And I keep hittin' repeat-peat-peat-peat

— Selena Gomez

Evil men have no songs.MHow is it then that the Russians have songs?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no men like me. There's only me

— Anonymous

Ultimately if the body is in tune, most likely the mind is in tune.

— Troy Dumais

A song could bring back memories you never thought you'd remember.

— Anonymous

Jon Deitemyer is the drummer everyone wants right now.

— Patricia Barber

Every time I finish a song, I play it for my family. I don't hide anything.

— Noah Cyrus

That's not easy to find in a corporate world, somebody who cares about music.

— Michael Penn

I do like expressing how I feel about things in my music.

— John Newman

I mean, I grew up in a very musical family.

— Jihae

The music is in the air. Take as much as you want.

— Edward Elgar

All of creation is a song of praise to God.

— Hildegard of Bingen

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

— James Levine