Song Quotes · Page 373

I wouldn't have a No. 1 record or song if I wasn't a hardworking person.

— Kesha

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

— Tom Verlaine

I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.

— Jimi Hendrix

I like punks who also like Saxon. I guess I am one.

— Gylve Nagell

It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.

— Nelly Mazloum

I think my favorite thing is songwriting.

— Carlos Ponce

Whatever I've got going on, I play music to accompany me.

— Brooke Burke

It's hard enough to write a song, let alone one that sticks around.

— Jani Lane

I'm so jealous of my friends who can write on tour - but there was once when I was jet-lagged and wrote…

— Ruel

Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where…

— Rosanne Cash

The Velvet Underground is probably the best band that's ever existed, assuredly the best American one.

— Ezra Furman

I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.

— Karen Morley

I'm mainstream, and I have pretty chart-tastic tastes. I don't often veer away from a big melodic song with big words for…

— Robbie Williams

iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John…

— Trent Reznor

If I find something I like, I'll chase it and see what comes out the other side. Once a song gets momentum…

— Dave Matthews

Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This…

— Ray Charles

Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the…

— Diane Duane

The awesomeness of God is that even in the works of the Beach Boys, Beatles, etc., the beauty of the music is…

— John Foster

We don't have a constant PR person or anything. That's why people say. 'Oh, you're still together?' Yeah. I'm in Des Moines…

— Fred Schneider

I've got a few reasons why I've got to maintain stability. I've got into wanting people to hear my music. I've got…

— Sly Stone

I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist... Beethoven could have been forgiven if…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

So I'm writing more highly personalized and intellectual music, and I think that's good. It might take longer to find me, but…

— Paula Cole

The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish…

— Danny Elfman

Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die…

— Sherman Alexie

Don't buy the bootlegs, save your stuff, everything's coming back out.

— Anonymous

I don't believe every download is a lost sale.

— Jeff Tweedy

I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.

— James Taylor

The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Be honest with who you are and what your music is about.

— B-Real

We're not idols onstage. We're not the Rolling Stones.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song.

— Hilda Doolittle

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

— Charles Darwin

Songs are easy to remember because they have rhythm and music.

— Asha Bhosle

The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters

— Ahmet Ertegun

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

— Janina Gavankar

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

— Rhona Mitra

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

— Raye

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

— Yip Harburg

I'm a guy who's passionate about singing, but I can't sing for crap.

— Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.

— Mel Torme