Song Quotes · Page 375

I made my first complete song when I was 9.

— Ludacris

The older I get, the more interest I have in writing other kinds of music.

— Andy Biersack

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

— Melanie Fiona

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them.

— Big Bill Broonzy

I like just having that separation between my music life and my personal life.

— Blake Judd

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

— Esperanza Spalding

Baby you a song, you make me wanna roll my windows down and cruze.

— Anonymous

I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

— Carice van Houten

My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.

— Damon Albarn

I listen to everything - from Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette all the way down to rap like Scarface, UGK and Lauryn…

— Jay-Z

Sometimes what makes a great song is that bittersweet combination - a really heartfelt song, whether good or bad, mixed with something…

— Jonas Blue

To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm…

— Scott Ian

In a world of bands called Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank, Electric Sheep rolls off the tongue like a Shakespearean love sonnet. Leave…

— Tom Morello

I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that.

— Henry Rollins

I do not know what kind of relationship Jim Carroll and The Ramones had, though I imagine they all knew each other,…

— Kevin Morby

Musicians and non-musicians alike are priding themselves on the width and breadth of their musical interests, which I think is to be…

— Chris Thile

To learn a piece on the piano - even a simple one - has proved every bit as agonizing as writing a…

— Ben Dolnick

We definitely were a punk band. When we got in with our producer, Richard Gottehrer, he slowed everything down so that you…

— Gina Schock

We first wrote the song 'Resurrection,' and it felt perfect for the album title. Through resurrection, most things come back better and…

— Chad Gilbert

Straight edge came out of the hardcore scene. I don't necessarily believe, as some people believe, that you have to be a…

— Davey Havok

“We all understand that this is just music. We all understand these songs were written Before - there is no way the…

— David Levithan

Sinatra's melancholy was the melancholy of mass (old) media technology - the 'extimacy' of the records facilitated by the phonograph and the…

— Mark Fisher

Most artists are going into the studio for a fixed period of time, and they say that's their album. I can't relate,…

— Kelela

Acting is about giving yourself away, like the U2 song 'With or Without You.' You just don't stay behind a character and…

— Catherine Hicks

All my songs are things that have happened to me.

— Mabel

There are three degrees of comparison: stupido, stupidissimo, and tenore.

— Pietro Mascagni

I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.

— Mary Steenburgen

I write songs every day, but I don't necessarily get to record them.

— Kevin Parker

Music runs the world, you stop it you die.

— Collin Mitchell

I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

— Derek Bailey

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

— Van Morrison

I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.

— Florence Welch

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.

— Diplo

I sing in the reaches. We'll see what we find

— Moby

Mophonics is kind of a creative home for me.

— Mark Foster

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

— Peter Steele

The most visceral expression of emotion in music.

— Milo Aukerman

The more negative hype we get, the more records we sell, know what I'm saying?

— Scarface

The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.

— Randy Owen

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

— Nick Cave