Song Quotes · Page 479

There were songs that we cut out after we chose the name, because 'Praise Break' turned out to be an underlying concept…

— Daniel Caesar

I was a young troubadour when I rode in on a song. And, I'll be an old troubadour when I'm gone.

— George Strait

You can impact on people with music, and I love that because music impacts on me.

— Tash Sultana

“I don't get jazz. It always sounds like a bunch of toddlers let loose in a music room.”

— Libba Bray

We never said we were hard-core or that we didn't want our music crossing over or being popular.

— Pepa

Just because something is very technical or heavy doesn't mean that it's not melodic.

— John Petrucci

Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing that's lasting.

— George Benson

I believe Dad will be respected in 300 years, like Beethoven. As will Elvis, as will the Carter Family, as will Jimmie…

— John Carter Cash

Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing…

— Jason Mraz

I remember running down the hallway screaming 'We're Not Gonna Take It.' It was really one of those childhood anthems that really…

— Adam F. Goldberg

When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life,…

— Rabindranath Tagore

There are a lot of producers and people in the music industry who take credit for the work of others when it's…

— Howard Lawrence

I sing for the joy of music... when I go back home with the satisfaction that today I recorded a good song…

— Neeti Mohan

The last record was good but lyrically it wasn't focused - I was writing a lot of the lyrics and I am…

— Patrick Stump

In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then…

— Rick Rubin

“Toph looks at me. I nod gravely. In this world, in our new world, there will be rocking. We will pay tribute…

— Dave Eggers

Singing is kind of like stress relief and everything just kind of makes sense when I'm doing this.

— Rose

My sister loved country music. My mother loved Spanish music. And my dad was into big band music and jazz.

— Hope Sandoval

I hate when there's a band that you've loved and you go and see them and it's like only the really new…

— Zawe Ashton

We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Honestly, if I was to learn how to play the guitar it would be an acoustic guitar. That's just the way I…

— De'Aaron Fox

I was lost in till I found music, God blessed me with a gift and for that I will ride with him…

— Anonymous

I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his…

— Lynda Barry

We are not a boy band in the traditional sense. We don't dance or have synchronized moves. We are a pop-rock band.

— Kevin Jonas

Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.

— Dhani Harrison

I got a fat bud in the case of my guitar. I got the flavour of the month chillin in the jar.

— Kottonmouth Kings

My mom spent like a decade of her life living in Paris, and I grew up listening to a lot of French…

— Ramy Youssef

When you write really good lyrics - and sometimes I did! - they are just a joy to sing.

— Roland Orzabal

I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands…

— Rob Sheffield

If you're bored of the songs, you're bored of the songs. There's not much you can do.

— Thom Yorke

I've written good love songs when I have been in love and I've written good love songs when I haven't.

— John Legend

“When it happens that I am more moved by the song than the thing which is sung, I confess that I sin…

— St. Augustine of Hippo

I still see myself as the kid who plays accordion and tries to keep people happy for 45 minutes. And there's nothing…

— Dennis DeYoung

I dont ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my…

— Fetty Wap

“There is an indescribable feeling that comes from being desperately in love with a song.”

— Nina LaCour

When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't…

— Joe Cocker

I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and…

— Denise Duhamel

I have a hard time saying I'm going to make a whole record of just rock-out songs, because that gets boring, you…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.

— Walter Becker