Song Quotes · Page 177

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

— Steve Forbert

I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.

— Nick Cave

My favorite album is 'Ram' by Paul and Linda McCartney.

— Fred Armisen

Music has the ability to change ones perspective of the world around them. J.L

— Jeremy Limn

There are three Bachs. Johann, Sebastian and Offen.

— Victor Borge

I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.

— Robbie Williams

I want people to say about me, 'I know he's making music because he loves it.'

— Hunter Hayes

My music's matured so much, I don't have to create any barriers.

— Dinah Jane

I made records purely for fun - songs that made you feel good. I left the message songs to people like John…

— Dave Clark

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

— John Steinbeck

When it comes to the 1990s songs, we all can recall them by their beautiful poetry, melody and how soothing they were…

— Kumar Sanu

A lot of times, Im singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.

— Kacey Musgraves

“Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished”

— Esmé Raji Codell

I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's…

— K. Flay

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, too much love drives a man insane. You broke my will, but what…

— Jerry Lee Lewis

I really like narrative songs, but I wonder if that's a thing for some people. Once they've heard the story, do they…

— Craig Finn

You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?"…

— Rob Sheffield

I disguise a few things in my songs. You know, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. There are…

— Sisqo

That's something I've certainly taken from writers like Gord Downie is that there is a whole potential for breaking out of meter.…

— John K. Samson

Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him…

— Howard Roberts

It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical…

— Steven Pinker

The inspiration to write a song comes to me when something has happened to me more than once. If it's happened to…

— Kevin Parker

“Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are…

— Peter Shaffer

Sometimes it starts with a random lyric idea that sets the tone for the whole song. Chords and sounds build from the…

— Tove Lo

A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

— Lou Rawls

When I was young, I had a beautiful singing voice.

— The D.O.C

We're never going to write an 'American Idiot' song.

— Luke Hemmings

I'm not interested in making songs for films.

— KK

Bobby had faith in my ability as a singer.

— Julie London

We've always known that music is good for improving your mood.

— Daniel Levitin

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

— David Byrne

My songwriting is just journaling out my life via song.

— Laufey

Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart,

— Bernard of Clairvaux

Never felt like this before, Are we friends or are we more ?

— One Direction

Am I sounding better or am I just getting used to my voice?

— Brett Somers

“Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.”

— Yip Harburg

I love songs that don't do what you expect them to.

— Raye

I was always really into the music rather than the scene.

— Rhona Mitra

Music has always been a part of my life. I make music all the time.

— Janina Gavankar

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

— Creed Bratton