Song Quotes · Page 460

I started writing when I was about fourteen, but when I was about sixteen you know, I heard Outkast, that was pretty…

— Bubba Sparxxx

If the snares are tight and the engineer was good and the rhymes are fly then it's good.

— Rev. Run

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

— Brian Eno

I kind of feel that as soon as you've played a song to one other person, then it's something you share together.

— Ben Howard

In maybe third grade, I kept asking my parents for piano lessons, and eventually I got them. It turned out I wasn't…

— Alex G

I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and…

— Robyn

Life Is A Song We Play Each Day. For Every Mistake We Make, The Song Goes Out Of Tune. But Keep On…

— Pacifiersucker

I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed.

— Artur Schnabel

When you listen to the music in this film [Despicable Me], it's working on the level of melody, but the other key…

— Christopher Meledandri

Armaan has a simple approach and understands what a composer wants. I tell him, 'Give the song your own vibe but I…

— Amaal Mallik

Typically, people think, 'Oh the hippies and the punks hated each other,' or that those things don't go together musically. Sometimes that…

— Bryce Dessner

A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites…

— Marc Almond

We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that…

— Jessye Norman

I had a brother six years older than me, so I wasn't just listening to teenybopper stuff. My brother had the cooler…

— Jill Sobule

I believe so, but at first he must know. He must know in which spirit Beethoven has composed this piece. He must…

— Kurt Masur

When you're co-leading a band with someone whose career is bigger than your own, like with my wife Susan, it's different. You…

— Derek Trucks

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.

— Elton John

I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake…

— Sade Adu

It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you…

— Mackenzie Astin

'In the Pines' is a very old song dating back to slavery. Lead Belly made it popular.

— Fantastic Negrito

The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not…

— Randy Newman

Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.

— Evelyn Glennie

I got the idea of what a band should be from listening to Booker T and Otis Redding.

— Paul Rodgers

Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop…

— Virginia Graham

It's the song in your heart that wants you to help make yourself a better person, and to help other people do…

— Mattie Stepanek

I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

— Taylor Swift

Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and I'm always going to want to do it.

— Naturi Naughton

I knew 'Hurt' way before Dad recorded it. In 1992, 'Downward Spiral' was one of my favorite albums.

— John Carter Cash

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

— Mick Jagger

I feel like the music should be a reflection of the culture and the world we're living in.

— Naughty Boy

I don't really concentrate on Urban AC or whatever. I don't concentrate on genres or how people section off songs for radio.

— B.J. The Chicago Kid

Music brings people together. So my function in anything I do is to help bring people closer in.

— Gord Downie

Somewhere we went wrong. Our love is like a song, but you won't sing along. You've forgotten... About... Us..

— Jayden

Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major…

— Alex Ebert

I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning.

— Charlie Haden

You just hope to do music that people will embrace... music that will be cutting edge and will be recognized.

— Philip Bailey

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

— Michael Franti

I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the…

— Mick Ronson

When I hear music, I come alive. I feel electrified. I just get into the music and I start moving.

— Courtney Hadwin