Song Quotes · Page 488

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

— Billy Gibbons

It's funny how we can remember all the words to a song but can't remember anything we studied

— Corey Chevier

People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing.

— Roger McGuinn

We believe that with our music, we should be saying exactly what we think. We want to speak up for people who…

— Maddie Marlow

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

— Henri Matisse

I don't make music to prove all the critics wrong. I do it to prove all my fans right.

— Kid Rock

I do have some songs where it is about my relationship with my husband, and it does get very personal.

— Jessie James Decker

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

— John Corigliano

“I learned that music comes from the voice, the rhythm and the heart of each person, and that the musicality of those…

— Kim Thúy

I don't think it's especially praiseworthy that even in those periods when things around us were kind of dire, we were working…

— Ron Mael

We are drowning in a sea of Myspace, blather, and too much information. Music is everywhere and nowhere. The independent record store…

— Dean Wareham

Jim had melodies as well as words. He didn't know how to play a chord on any instrument, but he had melodies…

— John Densmore

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning.…

— Caroline Corr

People don't realize how much it means to your music to record on tape, whether it be for new music or old…

— Adrian Younge

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen…

— Eddie Van Halen

I got recognised for my work in 'Guru' as 'Tere Bina' became extremely popular, but very few people know that I have…

— Chinmayi

She is always a subject to my mouth friends of mine get used of me it is become a song ,

— Sikhwetha Maanda Stanley

...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

— Guy de Maupassant

I vividly remember D'Angelo's 'How Does it Feel?' as a song I listened to around the time I came out.

— Jonathan Van Ness

A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of…

— Gian Carlo Menotti

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly,…

— Olivier Messiaen

Singing is my favorite thing to do. One day, I hope to get signed to a record label.

— Selah Louise Marley

I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what…

— Tyler Farr

I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is…

— Tom DeLonge

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, insiration, feeling, and understanding.

— Willie Dixon

I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I…

— Tommy Lee

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs…

— Keith Urban

As the day gives way to night i miss you having by my side my heart is singing the song to say…

— Babloo

Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.

— David Byrne

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a…

— John Deacon

The first time you hear a song you might not remember the words, but you can go to the record store and…

— James Ingram

I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

— Imelda May

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.

— Tony Levin

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

— Abbie Cornish

My most favorite entrance music of all time... it's that, "You're my obsession, you're my obsession" song [Animotion's "Obsession"].

— Joseph Bruce

I've always loved music and held it as a sacred thing that I can't touch, as I don't really want to deconstruct…

— Aaron Koblin

I want more people to know who I am and I want to have the chance to tease my music a bit…

— MNEK

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set…

— Mark Twain

A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than…

— Sebastian Bach

If you've never heard a piece of Mozart, then Mozart could sound scary or confusing, so it's all about learning.

— Michael Arden