Song Quotes · Page 189

I feel like songwriting, for me, is kind of therapy.

— Tom Walker

My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.

— Greg Brown

The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

— William Wordsworth

I've had about 140 albums released, and I've done everything I wanted to do.

— Hank Snow

I think you want to write a song that's like the songs you are into.

— Craig Finn

The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.

— Joey Santiago

Loving you is like a Song I replay every 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds of every Day.

— Lauryn Hill

Words have been the most difficult thing for me. Melodies have been the easiest for me; I have more than enough melodies…

— Leon Russell

Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors…

— Anna Thomas

I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want…

— Maluma

As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.

— Mike Stoller

I don't know if I would compare my sound to anyone because I like to think that my music is my music.

— Noah Cyrus

Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

— Lara St. John

I've started to look at guitar playing from more than just a standpoint of using certain modes and techniques.

— Jim Root

I'm talented in other places, not only in songwriting, but music is always going to be the backdrop to whatever happens in…

— The-Dream

I don't sit down and say, 'Today I will write a song.' I know a lot of people that do that, but…

— Tyler Childers

“[...] I saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. As I watched them singing, it hit me: This is my ticket…

— Paul Stanley

I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back…

— Dwight Yoakam

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself…

— Chester Bennington

I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on…

— Luke Bryan

This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing,…

— Jeff Ament

Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a…

— Mayer Hawthorne

The old model of the industry was founded largely upon business folk trying to make money off artists. At EMP, we let…

— David Ellefson

My passion is music. That's where my heart is.

— Big Narstie

There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.

— James Hetfield

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

— Dan Farmer

“A bird doesn't sing because he has an answer-he sings because he has a song.”

— Joan Walsh Anglund

I've always loved Ibanez guitars, and in particular 7 strings.

— Paul Wardingham

The rap game without me would be like woofers without bass.

— E-40

What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.

— Ozzy Osbourne

Sabbath were a hippy band. We were into peace.

— Ozzy Osbourne

Jazz has provided the framework for all the other stuff that I've done.

— Lizz Wright

My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.

— G-Eazy

Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine.

— Ringo Starr

We've got no hate for each other [in the band Stone Roses], and we never have.

— Ian Brown

I started playing piano when I was around four; thats my first passion.

— Condola Rashad

My songs never really reach the ears of white America.

— Jadakiss

Since day one my thing has always been to play the music

— Zakk Wylde

I wish I lived in the '60s because I'm a big fan of the Beatles.

— Celine Buckens