Song Quotes · Page 462

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

— Nina Blackwood

Listening to music on my laptop, its a relaxing feeling even thou music Relax you it also can bring allot of old…

— Maria Rivera

People always want to romanticize relationships within bands. Most of these relationships are based on music first.

— Dennis DeYoung

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

— Andrew Bird

I'm about a 20-handicapper with a guitar. I can only play three songs on my own album. I did the lyrics, not…

— John Daly

Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time.

— Deborah Cox

“There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it.”

— Noam Shpancer

I just started singing with everything I had, and it worked. My voice just was there.

— Benson Boone

An audience will let you know if a song communicates. If you see them kind of falling asleep during the song, or…

— Richard Thompson

Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages…

— Tim Cahill

“During the taxi ride on the way to the hotel, I had to laugh to myself as I experienced another special moment…

— Heather Anne Talpa

With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by…

— Carrie Brownstein

Music is about truth, and truth contains the ugliness and the dark and evil and hate and sadness as well as the…

— Andrew W.K

I actually never wanted to do a remake, but I got the opportunity to make the music for 'The humma song' for…

— Tanishk Bagchi

You never forget where you were when you write a song; it's a very proper memory, so I knew exactly where I…

— Dido Armstrong

Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These…

— Josiah Bartlett

I listen to a lot of music. But I definitely haven't looked at an artist and like thought I want to have…

— Melanie Martinez

When an actor sings a song, he will be able to bring forth the emotion in it much better than a playback…

— Gopi Sundar

Once you have an established song, you can really come out of your shell and experiment with the sound you want to…

— Post Malone

I'd love to have a Christmas classic under my belt. It's hard to write a Christmas song.

— Patty Smyth

I hate it when you buy a record for the single and find out that is the only good song on the…

— Christian Burns

If the fans are liking what I've been doing, and they want to create a song for me, let's get on with…

— Fabinho

I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.

— Sarah McLachlan

I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.

— John Otto

I wrote the album [Metals] in the fall. In about four months, I went from zero to finished. It usually takes forever.

— Feist

It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument!

— Leonid Andreyev

I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of…

— Joshua Bell

I try to imagine what the greatest song I could ever write would sound like, and then try to do it.

— Andrew W.K

I was lucky that my parents listened to really good music. My dad loved Kris Kristofferson.

— Ashley McBryde

At an independent label, you have to figure out inventive ways to promote without spending the money.

— Greg Laswell

We're not the kind of band who writes an order abundance of songs and picks from them, we usually write for the…

— John Petrucci

If you can't play as good or as fast as me, just give up, sell your guitar on eBay and kill yourself.

— John Petrucci

Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

— Henry Rollins

Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use…

— Washed Out

I always had a passion for music, and I feel like whatever people are passionate in, they're going to end up doing…

— Ice Spice

I don't go about playing music differently. It changes my sleeping schedule and my drinking habits, that's what I like to say.

— Norah Jones

There has got to be a lot of unreleased video out there, live footage and whatnot. There's always going to be something…

— Phil Anselmo

Every composer understands and uses the system of notation differently, and that's what makes you appreciate the trouble they go through in…

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

Anybody can make hood music or club records, that's not hard. But can you make music that touch people's souls. That's what…

— Gorilla Zoe

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on…

— Martin Gore