Song Quotes · Page 290

Music is kind of motivational and it helps me get my mind right.

— Darrell Wallace Jr

There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written.

— Rickey Medlocke

I'm coming from the zone of Faith Evans, but with weird production.

— Kelela

In respect for drummers, see, I love drummers.

— Miles Davis

This song goes out to Robin Williams. It's called 'Last Hope'.

— Hayley Williams

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

— Bob Weir

It costs so much money to make a record!

— Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein

I think I feel in love with words before I feel in love with music.

— Taylor Swift

The selections on 'Daily Practice' are all what I consider standard rock songs that have been absolutely essential to keeping me alive.

— Alice Ripley

I've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see.

— Phil Elvrum

I believe the right lyric and melody can soar beyond the clouds to the ears of the heavens.

— Jimmie Allen

Lars [Ulrich] of Metallica is one of the worst drummers I've ever heard, but they hide it because they spend millions recording.

— Slim Moon

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

— Solange Knowles

If you've got a good melody and a good story married together, that's a good sign for hit-song material.

— Glen Campbell

The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.

— Kevin Spacey

“classical musicians are now as subject to marketing principles as any other performers.”

— Renee Fleming

The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical…

— Mick Taylor

I feel like a lyricist is somebody that writes their own lyrics. Now songwriters and lyricists are two totally different things. You…

— Dave East

I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into…

— Daughn Gibson

I started playing the bass because nobody else would play the bass, and then I got bumped up into singing because no…

— Tom Petty

Actually think anybody ever approaches writing any song, I think the song approaches them, truth be told. Usually what happens is that…

— Jon Fratelli

After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a…

— Lindsey Buckingham

I like myself. I think I'm cool. But I think when you're in a band you take on a role within the…

— Stone Gossard

A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence, and they…

— Mark Knopfler

I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

— Laura Mvula

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.

— Herbie Mann

Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading.

— Jimmy Iovine

'Walk on the Wild Side' was a very catchy song.

— Robert Hilburn

I don't think that good politics ever excuse a bad song.

— Greg Brown

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

— David Johansen

You need to know when to surrender the album.

— Bebe Rexha

Every song has a mood, a situation and a different kind of score.

— M. Jayachandran

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

— Dave Davies

Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement.

— George Szell

That awkward moment when you sing the wrong part of a song with confidence.

— Cuts And Scars

But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.

— Chaka Khan

“It is the space between the notes that makes the music”

— Achille-Claude Debussy

“I knew what song was next and I knew who I was dancing with. My wife.”

— Karina Halle

You can't just sing the song and live another life.

— Ice T

It kind of limits what we can call the albums.

— Will Farquarson