Song Quotes · Page 383

You can be whoever you want to be when you are writing songs.

— Ruston Kelly

I always strive to make my music unique.

— Jonas Blue

A song isn't a newspaper. It might feel direct, but it's not.

— David Longstreth

We didn't want to be a po-faced, dull band - we wanted to have fun.

— James Righton

I definitely want my music to make people happy.

— Ava Max

I love to sing, and I love to talk to people at meet-and-greets.

— Kelly Clarkson

If you love music, than you can play music.

— Michael Nesmith

Music is a passion of mine. Im always listening, always learning.

— J. D. Pardo

If I could write you a song to make you fall in love, I would already have you up under my arm.

— Mike Posner

'MMMBop' took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then…

— Isaac Hanson

It used to be that youd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you…

— Tom T. Hall

U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.

— John Lydon

The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.

— Rita Coolidge

I'm always writing new songs and doing them live, and I may do it for a week or two, and then never…

— Bob Schneider

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Every word has a meaning, Every work has a reason, Every song has a pain, Every love has a prison.”

— Lalit Majrikar

I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they have not liked me.…

— John Lydon

One of our favorite Joe Strummer quotes was, "No input, no output." Meaning, we're going to hear a band, we're going to…

— Jim Jarmusch

Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think…

— Paul McCartney

The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the…

— Ryan Adams

It's different obviously with a song when you're talking about narrative, you're talking about the verse leading into the chorus or whatever…

— Shura

I come from a very musical family. My dad taught me to play guitar. I play violin and drums as well. Violin,…

— Amandla Stenberg

Albums aren't even selling anymore and there's a reason for that. Record companies are just signing single and ring tone deals and…

— Rahki

I live alone in a house, so for me it's very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and…

— Adam Young

I didn't actually start playing the banjo until I was in high school.

— Maggie Rogers

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

— Jo Stafford

Some people have lives other people have music

— Anonymous

Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

I don't think there are any easy Led Zeppelin songs.

— Jason Bonham

It's not only about the rap lyric. Today, people are buying you as a person.

— Theophilus London

I do dig the White Stripes. I like the record they have out now.

— Charlie Hunter

In the music business, if you're not a fighter, you will get walked all over.

— Tina Knowles

It was actually really hard to get a record deal after 'American Idol.'

— Gabby Barrett

If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.

— Joe Elliott

All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.

— John Ruskin

An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.

— Courtney Barnett

A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

She's addicted to the song lyrics, that spill her heart out for her...

— Anonymous

What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.

— Jacques Attali

Gunna ain't never wrote no song for me. He just showed me how to rap.

— Lil Baby