Song Quotes · Page 465

'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.

— Sarah McLachlan

It was important that this album [Chain Letter] was an accurate reflection of me

— Brooke Valentine

Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained.

— Carlo Grante

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I…

— Jerry Reed

I think that for every artist, it's very important to have an output and to feel very strongly about the music you're…

— Jan Vogler

“The last new song you liked came out a long, long time ago, and the radio never plays it anymore.”

— Nic Pizzolatto

I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during…

— Yvonne Strahovski

When I make my socially conscious songs, I go hard with the lyrical content; I go hard with the imagery.

— Raheem DeVaughn

Whether it's an inspiring song or whether it's an entertaining song - whatever it might be about it - I just want…

— Danny Gokey

I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't…

— John Prine

The idea that music is art has been something we advocated for years. And yet it doesn't receive the same treatment as…

— RZA

The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the…

— Chris Thile

Live music is proof that there's some things the Internet can't kill. In our lifetime, we're going to see more and more…

— Jim James

Who are you? Are in touch with all of your darkest fantasies? Have you created a life for yourself, where you can…

— Lana Del Rey

I used to hang out a lot in jazz clubs, and the groups took to a kid like me who wasn't afraid…

— Eric Burdon

We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I think it's important to have a narrative and to have a point with your music and to be going somewhere with…

— Benny the Butcher

If a kid goes and buys a CD at Best Buy, we have no idea who the person is, how many times…

— Troy Carter

Songwriting was very tough for me... I would go in and sit and hope for inspiration to come, and it was rarely…

— Leon Russell

Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don't get a chance to dwell on the music,…

— Carolyn Davidson

I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music…

— Yolanda Adams

When you play a show and you see people singing your lyrics back to, you feel as if they do know you.

— Orianthi

“The silence must be longer. This music is about the silence. The sounds are there to surround the silence.”

— Arvo Pärt

The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music.

— Girl Talk

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.

— Keith Richards

I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through.

— Katy Perry

Surround yourself with people who allow you the time to really discover what kind of a musician you truly are.

— Jack Savoretti

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

— Alison Krauss

If you take care of the music first, and then add elements of a good show, then it makes for a good…

— Steve Harris

The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.

— Malcolm Mclaren

God, I hate my voice! Everyone thinks I'm a female, probably... I am actually a male!

— Ray Toro

This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.

— Eva Ibbotson

As a versatile artist, you can't pick a genre and I have this global feelgood presence.

— Quincy Brown

[Kino] worked really well as a song title, and to build into a lyric, and also how we embraced mulit-media at the…

— Stephen Mallinder

I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass. It…

— Stephen Bruner

I am not much of a good singer, but many people still think that I should sing well, because I am a…

— Joo Won

Taylor Swift was so influential in me feeling like I could just pick up my guitar and write a song as good…

— Maisie Peters

And I'll be gone gone tonight The ground beneath my feet is open wide The way that I been holdin' on too…

— Zayn Malik

There's this one song called 'Final Warning' that I'm really excited about because I love the contrast of my vocal sounding very…

— Skylar Grey

Frank Ocean would be incredible; I'd love to be a sponge and absorb everything he says. Every song he puts out, I'm…

— Alessia Cara