Song Quotes · Page 449

I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybodys like, Shut up.

— Sean Paul

I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good…

— Chris Martin

We really try to bring a really joyful and happy and uplifting experience through the songs, through the words, through the music.

— Susan Tedeschi

My day job is that I write songs for other artists and if I'm not on the road I'm in my studio.

— Chesney Hawkes

I love playing my music and I love sharing the music with people. But at the same time, it is pretty taxing.

— Jack Johnson

People assume I sell a lot more records than I actually do. I really don't sell any.

— Marnie Stern

“Tell me this, pal, why isn't everybody sitting on a fence in the moonlight playing a banjo? That's all I want to…

— Vincent Lawrence

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.

— Dave Barry

A song like "Walkabout", it's totally imitative. The goal of that song was to make people happy, and I've never really made…

— Bradford Cox

People want things now. People in the rock world seem to not want to give it to them - they want to…

— M. Shadows

I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started…

— Cyndi Lauper

When I take my Les Paul onstage, it's reliable. An SG could be different from night to night, but a Les Paul…

— Peter Svensson

Obviously I try to make the best music that I can, but after about two years of making an album, you start…

— Kate Bush

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm…

— Anonymous

As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when…

— Neil Innes

“This music had been played and heard before and would be again, not only here in this church, but in places all…

— Jessica Shattuck

I believe that music is an international language and deserves to be heard all over the world.

— Chris de Burgh

Whenever I'm really excited about a song, I want to learn it, and it becomes the first thing I play every time…

— Frankie Cosmos

When it comes to our 'Jai ho,' the song became a super hit because of the composition of Rahman... He made the…

— Gulzar

The song succeeds or fails just based on whether you argue your point successfully.

— Iron & Wine

And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and…

— Pat Metheny

I'm the type of guy, I make a lot of different beats, but sometimes I might stick to a sound for a…

— Zaytoven

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded…

— Richard Marx

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

— Steve Lacy

I've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music.

— Neil Diamond

I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.

— A. R. Rahman

Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.

— Jimmy Smith

There's a joy I get from collaborating with other artists, and there's a joy I get from making songs on my own.

— Rostam Batmanglij

As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk…

— Curtis Mayfield

I don't know what any of my tunes are about, they're just out there. I'm not good with words. I just say…

— Liam Gallagher

I like to play music, and I like to be funny, so I just do both at the same time.

— Christopher Guest

Rock 'n' roll is a participatory sport. It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock 'n' roll and dance…

— Steven Van Zandt

Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal…

— Christopher John Farley

The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen.

— Simon McBurney

I listen to every type of music there is, and I also have a little girl, so I listen to ultra-fun Disney…

— Jamie Lynn Spears

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done…

— Tom Cochrane

My guitar sound pretty much came from discovering there was reverb on my little practice amp and really loving the mood it…

— Romy Madley Croft

But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy,…

— Rob Sheffield

I really enjoyed playing drums on 'Born Again.' It was a good feeling about being alive. There was a good energy there…

— Bill Ward

You can learn and enrich yourself through the process of knowing a different musical culture.

— Ludovico Einaudi