Song Quotes · Page 455

Australian bands are so self-deprecating - then they go on stage and blow every other band off the stage.

— Benji Madden

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

— Jonah Lehrer

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records…

— Al Green

Of course, we wore silly outfits, the pictures were corny, and some people still focus on that. But ABBA wasn't a big…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

'Shooting Star' started out as the arrangement on the record, and it's developed into a real audience-participation song, just from playing it.

— Paul Rodgers

Music is the outlet to bigger and better business; that's what I'm excited about.

— Redman

I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the…

— John Lennon

I'm musical in the sense that I can write a song, but I realised when I was learning the piano as a…

— Leslie Bricusse

My eyes adored ya Though I never laid a hand on you My eyes adored ya Like a million miles away from…

— Frankie Valli

Of course, we wrote the songs accordingly and performed and recorded them that way. At that time, we really thought it was…

— Mark McGrath

My advice for people is to love the world they are in, in whatever way makes sense to them. It may be…

— Paul Hawken

The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world. I…

— Cameron Crowe

Playing in London in 1979 was exciting: it was at the start of new wave, the transition period after punk, and there…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

We've had hassles, ups and downs, ins and outs, failures and triumphs. We're human beings, and we're not perfect. And we're mortal.…

— Mike Love

“Have you ever listened to a song from a long time ago; from your past; a song that was filled with so…

— José N. Harris

I wish it was clear for me how it happened [stop writing songs], then maybe I could start writing again. But it's…

— Joan Baez

In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters.

— Midge Ure

I love, love, love songwriting. It's like the most therapeutic thing in the world.

— Troye Sivan

I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.

— Paul McCartney

It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

— Lupe Fiasco

I long for real and true connection. It has been the theme of all the songs in my whole life.

— Mary Gauthier

“Without death life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that could never be sung. For…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I came up with the lyrics and the melody for 'good 4 u' one morning in the shower.

— Olivia Rodrigo

You're always remembering songs you wanna sing except when you're actually at karaoke.

— Sebastian Stan

I get to work with people I love who challenge and inspire me. And I get to sing songs that do that…

— Karen Mason

My perception is that there is no distinction in music as many people perceive. The difference lies in the way you hear…

— Ilaiyaraaja

Doing an album is like having a business card; to show people what you do. The most important thing to me is…

— Angelique Kidjo

When a song comes on, whose face pops up in your head?:) whose name makes your stomach drop when you hear it?:)

— Anonymous

Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves…

— Yasmina Khadra

Sometimes you just have to turn the volume up full blast and lose yourself in the music...

— Unkown

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

— Bob Brookmeyer

The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind.

— Maria Cristina Mena

I've always been an artist who's about being real and about telling the truth and making music with integrity and talking about…

— Santigold

I have songs - even from my first album, I've always been on some socially conscience/love whatever music, you know?

— Raheem DeVaughn

“Why buy vinyl when he could keep all his music on a device that fit in his pocket?”

— William Miller

When we recorded 'Iowa,' we jammed, we went through the songs, we played as a band and we recorded as a band.

— Jim Root

'Ice Cream' is such a sweet song, just like ice cream! Whenever I need to relieve some stress, or just want to…

— Dahyun

Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a…

— Bucky Pope

If you get on the radio, people hear it, they buy the record. If you get on Spotify playlist nowadays, people hear…

— Doug Walters

I have experimented with various genres of music, whether its rock, pop, slow songs, etc.

— Himesh Reshammiya