Song Quotes · Page 472

I always try to relate a song to something what is going on, the working man, the times, how life goes.

— Johnny Van Zant

I got a dalmatian, and I can still get high, I can play the guitar like a motherfuckin riot.

— Brad Nowell

I'm not trying to top the 'Muddy Waters' album. What I'm doing by naming it 'Muddy Waters 2' is to let you…

— Redman

If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be…

— Natalie Portman

“Oh, chicken feathers!" Sophie said. "I've got a song in my heart and it needs to come out!”

— Dayle Anne Dodds

Some of my songs are positive and stuff, but some are about staring down at the ground and obsessing about stupid things,…

— Lou Barlow

I played some Yamaha drums that I like a lot. And I like the Yamaha people a lot too. They've been really…

— Levon Helm

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let…

— Eric Church

The next song I wrote in Paris years ago in a dream. So I didn't really write it, the universe wrote it.…

— Serj Tankian

I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it…

— Olly Murs

For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look…

— Margaret Atwood

Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads,…

— James Fenton

My mother always wanted to play an instrument. Her parents never gave her that. Then it got to a point where I'd…

— Lulu Wang

“Of course.. some people, me included, believe that punk is just the most recent manifestation of this, this spirit, this feeling, you…

— Audrey Niffenegger

WME and IMG both truly understand and value my music and Mosaert's creative visions; they are forward-thinking, all-encompassing, and thoughtful in how…

— Stromae

Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the…

— Frederic Chopin

I want to sing of humanity, friendship, what's happening to the Earth and the like.

— Shankar Mahadevan

The only way to be original in your songwriting is to write about your own experiences, and I think that's what we…

— Luke Hemmings

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

— Taylor Swift

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen…

— Bob Dylan

We played with AC/DC. There are actual recordings of us doing 'Johnny B Good' together.

— Rick Nielsen

If I can remain excited about the music that I'm giving you, then you're damn sure going to be excited about it.

— Alicia Keys

I never tell my artists how to rap or how to approach a song. I let them do the song.

— Yo Gotti

“simple people. . . . listen to music with their hearts and enjoy it more than those who are spoiled, jaded, blase.”

— Elfriede Jelinek

The Internet made the world smaller, so it's easier for people to hear your music. You don't necessarily need a radio record.

— Nas

Music can connect people on an intimate level. What Josh and I are trying to do is represent anyone who has some…

— Tyler Joseph

I'm just trying to make music everybody can get happy to and vibe to and turn up to. So long as I…

— Post Malone

I've often said if I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

— Leonard Cohen

I think there needs to be people that are doing something different in music. There's a need for that as much as…

— Gerard Way

Factory Records would not have existed and my life would not have been what it was without Joy Division.

— Tony Wilson

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

— Cornel West

Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it, and it…

— Ringo Starr

The Beatles were perfect. There's just no other way to say it. They were the perfect band.

— Danny Wood

I don't fight my ability to sing sad songs: it's what I am good at, so I must be built for that.

— Patty Griffin

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and…

— Claude Debussy

Songwriting for me is about zooming into the canvas, not songwriting in a typical sense.

— Goldie

Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher.

— Christopher Robin Milne

I'm just happy and proud to be playing music every day. Recognition is really cool, but it can also be kind of…

— Justin Vernon

We've never been a musically fashionable band. We've been successful, but I think that has something to do with us never following…

— Curt Smith

I know Ornette was playing violin sometimes - that was his bridge into the classical world, to break up that whole pecking…

— Wayne Shorter