Song Quotes · Page 457

'Barracuda' is very fun to play because it's like a galloping steed of a rock song.

— Nancy Wilson

We really like having songs where we think the arrangement is just as important as the melodies, even though they're typically not.

— M. Shadows

You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can…

— James Wan

I think when you are doing a song you're trying to give people enough details that they connect.

— Craig Finn

I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

— Boy George

It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. There's so much music out there.…

— Matt Corby

I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then…

— Jeff Beck

'Blackbird' is a really beautiful song, and I actually recently started trying to learn it, and it's beautiful.

— Himesh Patel

“...as a pianist, I can’t say I was always a big fan of contemporary music. The challenge of late Beethoven, or Mozart,…

— Leon Fleisher

My eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to…

— Woody Guthrie

I think the record industry has gotten to be more about labels wondering what the new single is rather than labels nurturing…

— John Varvatos

The thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less…

— Naomi Watts

“She was like a musician who may be an odious vulgarian in ordinary life, devoid of tact and taste; but who will…

— Anonymous

'God Made Girls' was such a success for me. I'm so blessed to have over half a million downloads on that song.…

— RaeLynn

I was driving across Georgia with a warlord and his bodyguards riding shotgun with their Kalashnikovs in a convoy of Mercedes and…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer, many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side…

— India.Arie

There's already a great deal to do writing the songs. And if I were completely in control of it, nobody would be…

— Stephin Merritt

You're the one who puts a smile on my face and a song in my heart. I love you tenderly and I…

— Strawberry

It's kind of a miracle to think that a device in your pocket can play pretty much any song that the world…

— Trent Reznor

We're probably doing better business than we thought we would do especially considering the disappointing way the record company has handled the…

— Rick Allen

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the…

— Roberta Flack

You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

— Jimmy Page

I've always said it took me 20 years to find out how to write a song in 20 minutes.

— Bart Howard

My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah."

— Mike Stud

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

— Elvis Costello

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!

— Iris Dement

I don't just sit down and write all day, or the songs would be weird or stupid. They would be about different…

— Syleena Johnson

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

— Gary Wright

Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

— Sasha Grey

Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular…

— Larry Coryell

I call the notion that we are nothing but killer apes the Beethoven fallacy. Beethoven was disorganized and messy, and yet his…

— Frans de Waal

I feel like I've got this great catalogue of songs sink or swim, it doesn't matter. If you've got that, you've got…

— John Waite

I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.

— Ryan Cabrera

I feel the most alive when I'm singing. I also get to be the mail man for some of the most beautiful…

— Mandy Patinkin

My father and mother listened to oldies, from be-bop and swing music to - I hate to admit it, but - Barry…

— Ivan Moody

A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called 'True Friend'.

— Miley Cyrus

I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.

— Sade Adu

That awesome moments when you find a song that you've been trying to find for a really long time.

— The Blog That Describe Your Life

I don't own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you're just talking about…

— Phil Collins

We always start with the music even though people assume that the lyrics are the essence.

— Ron Mael