Song Quotes · Page 211

Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground

— Demi Lovato

If breakups never existed the music industry would go bankrupt.

— Alisa Gattus

When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.

— Hannah Simone

Megadeth doesn't sound anything like Metallica.

— Dave Mustaine

My brother is the lead singer of The Torn, and my parents are in a country duo.

— Sheridan Smith

The story behind every song is individual to itself.

— Kelly Jones

I don't want to do the normal dance track song.

— Megan McKenna

We had always been a real band; Heart was never a construct.

— Ann Wilson

Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!

— Alice Herz-Sommer

I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching…

— Florence Welch

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

— Billy Strayhorn

I was making the music and writing the songs which reflected the emerging consciousness of my generation.

— Donovan

When I write songs, I try to write in a way to reach as many people as I can, to be a…

— Chris Tomlin

Artists get to step outside their comfort zone a 'lil bit and we get some great songs!!

— Matt Squire

People are still hearing your music. They might not be buying it, but they might be having it and you don't know…

— Keith Sweat

I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.

— Dan Mangan

Alan Cumming was such a fun guy to watch. I remember he has a song in the first 'Spy Kids' movie, and…

— Daryl Sabara

Ringo: 'I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I'm an emotional human being. I'm…

— Ringo Starr

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just…

— John Frusciante

I'm looking forward to some more solo acoustic dates. That's a lot of fun for me, because I get to be alone…

— Bob Weir

Sunrays, leaning on our southern hills and lighting Wild cloud-mountains that drag the hills along, Oft ends the day of your shifting…

— George Meredith

I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just…

— Greil Marcus

All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same…

— Roland Barthes

Even the greatest musicians, they only represent themselves. You represent who you are and what your experiences are and what you have…

— Kamasi Washington

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I think ballads transcend better into my work when I remix something.

— Cedric Gervais

The song of the sea does not end at the shore

— Vivian Greene

why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?

— Don DeLillo

We wouldn't last a year on the road playing music that we didn't love.

— Ted Dwane

Playing a music bring you into another life; I mean your heartbeat

— Anonymous

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

— George Bernard Shaw

The Beatles are, first and foremost, my favorite band of all time.

— Taylor Momsen

What we're most known for is the catchy choruses and the big hooks.

— Benji Madden

Music is my life, is my strong point, that's my love.

— Carrie Underwood

All of my songs are about me and my experiences. They're very literal.

— Lily Allen

'Is Qadar' is a beautiful melody that will resonate with people.

— Tulsi Kumar

“Writing is my oxygen. Music is my carbon dioxide.”

— Jessica Bell

Nelly Furtado has the right idea in reinventing herself.

— Anne Murray

When I compose an album, I don't think about how to adapt it on stage.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

Somehow, my music really suits doctors making out in the syringe room.

— Mat Kearney