Song Quotes · Page 431

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

— Manika

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

— Kevin Bacon

I write lyrics based on music, on a musical flow, and what sounds good at the time.

— Mike Patton

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the…

— Gary Cherone

I came from a home full of the sounds of my parents performing poems or playing recordings of Robert Graves, WB Yeats…

— Michael Rosen

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now…

— Jeff Beck

Sometimes, what probably makes writing songs really easy is that I've generally been attracted to situations that aren't always the healthiest.

— Sara Quin

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand…

— Steve Martin

I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I…

— Zedd

The wind comes creeping, it calls to me to come go exploring. It sings of the things that are to be found…

— Opal Whiteley

I suppose authoritarians don't like being made fun of because authoritarian rulers have a very inflated sense of themselves and don't like…

— Salman Rushdie

So if youre out there I swear to be good to you But Im done lookin, for my future someone Cause when…

— Tori Kelly

“The Buddha may have been the Beethoven of his psychological state, but Beethoven got to where he was gradually, and still fell…

— Designing the Mind

Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what…

— A. R. Rahman

With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking…

— Skip Horack

When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song,…

— Agnetha Faltskog

My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

— Grimes

When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way. That's just me.

— Nas

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

— Howard Shore

Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The congregation that I was raised in was one that sang and a non-instrumental fashion. It was all a cappella singing, and…

— Dwight Yoakam

“Harper, your song has a sorrowful sound, Though the tune was written as gay. Your voice is sad and your hands are…

— Anne McCaffrey

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

— Wynton Marsalis

It's quite vulnerable to put out love songs, I think, but then I love listening to love songs.

— Ellie Rowsell

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

— Michael Shannon

I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making…

— Brian McKnight

“in her heart it didn't give her near the same feeling that music did. Nothing was really as good as music.”

— Carson McCullers

It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would…

— Matt Berninger

I don't think you can have a 'favourite song' and it winds me up when people ask. You can't have one!

— Lou Sanders

Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like…

— Boots Riley

There's always one song that reminds you of a person, place or time and makes you miss it so much.

— Anonymous

As much as Metallica rocked, they always had these song names... 'The Thing That Shouldn't Be'. 'The Chair That Wasn't There', you…

— Bill Burr

Country music's really good about telling a story, so I want songs that tell good stories where people can say, 'That happened…

— Lauren Alaina

People don't know how to reach record labels, and a lot of time labels don't listen to stuff that's sent in randomly.

— Perez Hilton

Western classical music is participative. Look at the number of people who are involved in a symphony.

— Ilaiyaraaja

“Dilettantes,’ Art3mis said. ‘It’s their own fault for not knowing all the Schoolhouse Rock! lyrics by heart.”

— Ernest Cline

I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have…

— Shirley Manson

Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the…

— Grandmaster Flash

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

— Gottfried Leibniz

I enjoy making music alone, and I like keeping my options open for how I release my own songs.

— Daniel Rossen