Song Quotes · Page 440

I have a good life. I have nothing to complain about, and the music is just too interesting.

— Patricia Barber

I'm a sucker for two things: Adam Lambert and songs that start out as emo as a sad episode of 'Felicity' and…

— Phoebe Robinson

I knew when I wrote the line "light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson" [from the song "Slow Jamz"] I was going to…

— Kanye West

I had been writing songs from the age of 7 or 8 years old, and they were so bad. But it was…

— Raye

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.

— Jim Morrison

I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly…

— Jose Gonzalez

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and…

— Jillian Hervey

If you told me in the '90s that I'd be in a chart battle with Green Day, I probably would have just…

— Ted Dwane

Everything I do is about setting up for the next. I think that my confidence and belief in myself as well as…

— Adrian Marcel

There are many fans of hard rock music that have been wrongly pigeonholed as apathetic. This music is not music for the…

— Tom Morello

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they…

— Pink

I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the…

— Quincy Jones

This was Jace being brave. Simon thought, brave and snarky because he thought Lilith was going to kill him, and that was…

— Cassandra Clare

On the second half of 'Under Pressure,' I talk about my family, and there are voicemails on my phone from when I…

— Logic

My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was…

— Grace Jones

My favorite kind of song is the most beautiful song that you love so much and it's so good it makes you…

— Kurt Vile

Music is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing.

— Glenn Branca

I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I…

— Lil Wayne

I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have…

— Frank Zappa

I like big, soaring melodies and fun, splashy lyrics. Maybe like what Blondie would do in 2013.

— Bonnie McKee

After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes,…

— Alan Light

I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.

— Yael Naim

Kurt [Cobain], from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold…

— Brett Morgen

When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural.

— Pusha T

Sometimes albums can be quick, sometimes they take forever, and we're very good at taking forever.

— Curt Smith

Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

“I hope I'm always a part of you, Eden. You'll forever be a part of me. A world without you in it…

— Karina Halle

I sang my song called "In This Song." David Foster wrote the song for me. I thought that I should sing a…

— Charice Pempengco

I want there to be a piece of me in my music, you know? I genuinely believe that's the secret of all…

— Bruno Mars

Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

— Alfred Brendel

I really like the complexity of jazz, the emotional depth; I feel like there's no other music that's really as satisfying as…

— Jose James

The Clash is pretty much my favorite band, and their songs like 'Rock the Casbah' are political dance tracks.

— Vic Mensa

The thing about singing for the Neighbourhood is I have to have a voice for five people and not just for myself.

— Jesse Rutherford

I feel like the theme song to 'Duck Tales.' 'Life is like a hurricane; it's a duck blur.' That's absolutely what it…

— Alaska

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were…

— Andres Segovia

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to…

— Ben Harper

You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.

— Miles Davis

The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices.

— Deepak Chopra

I think the origins of music have probably to do with magic and transcendence as well.

— Justin Adams

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It…

— Charlie Watts