Song Quotes · Page 499

During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed…

— Geezer Butler

I love finding songs, going through them, tearing them apart, and seeing if I can find anything wrong with them.

— Randy Travis

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

— James Blunt

“Don't die with your music still in you, play your music unencumbered. Should your guitar remain unstrung?”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.

— Kid Rock

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a…

— Jimmy Cliff

The song is very light-hearted, it's just a bit of fun. For a couple of tracks [the rest of the band] let…

— Brendon Urie

My third song I put out, it got a lot of shares on Facebook. I'm like 'OK, they digging it.'

— GloRilla

The culture of buying an album on CD or vinyl has gone out of the window. A lot of kids don't really…

— Jim Root

“People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room Now…

— Ani DiFranco

We're important, but not essential; valuable, but not indispensable. We have a part in the play, but we are not the main…

— Max Lucado

I think there are plenty of good bands out there, but the great bands aren't affected by what's going on around them,…

— Ryan Jarman

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me…

— Nanci Griffith

'You'll Accomp'ny Me' is a song I've always really cherished. The guy in that song is just so courageous. He's saying this…

— Frankie Ballard

I naively thought I had to go door to door, find somebody who could record me singing some songs. I didn't know…

— David Nail

I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem…

— Camila Cabello

I was once sitting on a tube, and someone was playing my song so loudly through their ear phones next to me.…

— Sam Smith

Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention…

— Melissa Manchester

Oberst is one of those musicians that some people hate in a visceral, biological way.

— Ben Dolnick

I feel like I'm always just trying to write better music and keep topping myself.

— Borns

I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think…

— Zach Condon

But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that…

— Vanessa Carlton

I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I'll do three versions of a song, then think, "Is the demo better?"

— Marc Almond

Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.

— Charles Kingsley

I've always been in music. I started out in music, and I will continue to do music.

— Jacob Latimore

Kombucha' is a song about leaving someone who was awful for me and wanting no residual contact. Reclaiming my life and the…

— Matthew Koma

I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as…

— Idris Elba

So you can play if you wanna nigga it's goin' down and I don't need a manager cuz I don't trust a…

— Yo Gotti

Hate and anger and disappointment and rage can be channeled in music into the most positive place.

— Brody Dalle

I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth…

— Kurt Vonnegut

My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections.

— Zacky Vengeance

There's always a message in my music, you just gotta be able to just sit there and be open-minded.

— E-40

Time crawls on when you're waiting for the song to start so dance along to the beat of your heart - The…

— Anonymous

When I first got signed, I used to literally pick up a pen and pad. Write bars in my notes, even whole…

— Jeremih

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

— Keren Ann

I think my favorite Rolling Stones song is "No Expectations." I always think and talk through songs.

— Ragnar Kjartansson

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing…

— Rick Danko

I'm blasting my music so I won't hear my thoughts, but the lyrics just remind me of what I'm trying to forget

— Fad Ibra

Skateboarding was my introduction to rap and the first rap song that I really liked was KRS-One 'Step Into A World.'

— Vic Mensa

It's really a rush and a thrill to feel you've been part of a body of music that's inspiring.

— Robert Trujillo