Song Quotes · Page 483

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play…

— Van Morrison

Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.

— Jackson Browne

Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people.

— Brion James

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

— Aaron Copland

I'm a big advocate of music being an honest representation of who you are as a person and your perspective.

— Miguel

A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.

— Horace Walpole

It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.

— Gabrielle Zevin

I always take a teapot with me on tour. I suppose it's only natural that I've just written a song called 'Where…

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

I make these songs for me. That's the truth. I make them because that's what I want to hear. Long before you…

— Saint Jhn

“A few days ago I heard a performance of the Sibelius fifth symphony. As the closing bars approached, I experienced exactly the…

— J.M. Coetzee

The way that I write is I just write a ton of music in the background of my life, and then I…

— Devin Townsend

We wanted to write songs that we really like that incorporate everything. It seems a lot of bands want to stick with…

— Zacky Vengeance

I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog.…

— Gene Autry

...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

When I finished performing 'I Won't Give Up' for the first time, I opened my eyes, and I think there was maybe…

— Jason Mraz

I was much further along as a poet than as a songwriter, but the songs were getting more attention. They were doing…

— David Berman

I think that music is a very, very powerful thing, especially when you have a movement like this [CBGB club] to shed…

— Ashley Greene

I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but…

— Geri Halliwell

With all the strife in the world, we must never forget that there is always a new melody, a new tune, a…

— Rita Marley

What's the point of re-releasing an album? The original sounded good, why change something about it?

— Ritchie Blackmore

The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your…

— Bob Marley

The sound changes from day to day, and even from moment to moment. Do not underestimate the power of music.

— McChristian Pascual Virgilio

There are songs that do get lost along the way, but as soon as you pull them out it all comes back…

— Mike Campbell

Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance...

— Annie Dillard

I'd like to sing songs that are mellower. I don't want to be screaming when I'm 60.

— Ozzy Osbourne

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer…

— Patty Griffin

If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?

— Amy Jackson

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy…

— Joe Elliott

On 'Underground,' we had used contemporary music to pull you into the present and not just look at it as a portrait…

— Misha Green

I used to have this little punk pop band, and I don't know why we did 'Behind Blue Eyes,' because it's not…

— Lights

“If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don’t want to cry anymore, you don’t listen to that song…

— Jay Asher

I have used that song ["50ft Queenie"] and I'm a big PJ Harvey fan. I think she's fantastic.

— Dylan Moran

I very rarely play with my fingers anymore. Again, with the flatwounds, the pick gives me a really nice solid punch.

— Cliff Williams

I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own…

— Lucy Lawless

I think if you're creating music, and you love the song, holding it back is just doing it an injustice.

— Shawn Mendes

Solomon was a musician and David was a musician, so it's a profession that I take seriously.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities."

— Eddie Vedder

There's so many things about Babymetal you cannot just grasp with the sound. The visual has to compliment the sound, the costumes…

— Suzuka Nakamoto

I'm really bad writing the chase scenes or fighting scenes. I'm much better for writing, like, a more melancholic or tragic music.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto