Song Quotes · Page 524

I recorded the song 'Believers' because I feel the song has a strong and much needed message. We all need encouragement and…

— Joe Nichols

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

I don't do any songs that I'm sick of now - sometimes even songs that I request. If I'm sick of 'em…

— Jonathan Richman

Even though I do a lot of songwriting, there's always other great material out there that you have to be aware of.

— James Ingram

It feels surreal to know that people out there know me, know my songs, and give me so much love.

— Armaan Malik

I know a lot of great musicians that don't know they're even great, because mangers try and make them feel belittled like…

— Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

At the end of the day, I think having some life experience is helpful to play any kind of music.

— Joe Bonamassa

If your girlfriend has Taylor Swift lyrics as her status you're either doing something very right, or very wrong.

— Farahjayne809

I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My…

— Ira Glass

“Here," I say. "You can put music behind it, and it will be your own." And it strikes me that this is…

— Ally Condie

Depending on which day, and how I am feeling on that day, I have a different favorite song on the album. One…

— Angie Stone

I don't compose songs to showcase my proficiency in music or to please hard-core music lovers. The basic criterion is that my…

— D. Imman

I have been known to do a lot of glamorous, glossy songs in A-lister set-ups. This was unlike that. 'Blackmail' is a…

— Urmila Matondkar

I was 5 when I won my first song and dance competition, and my parents asked me if that is what I…

— LeAnn Rimes

As much as you act like everything is programmed or calculated or researched or numbers, spins, radio, and clubs, it's still human…

— No I.D

A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all…

— Ella Henderson

“songwriters should make their statements and move on, maintaining a dignified silence.”

— Don McLean

I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me.

— Chantal Kreviazuk

“Music, Take That and what we do is not real life. It’s magical. As soon as you begin to believe it the…

— Gary Barlow

I played in a punk rock band in high school called the High Heel Flip Flops. I was the drummer. I played…

— Thomas Rhett

When the audience resonates with my music and sings every single word from the song, the high of performing live is unmatched.

— Guru Randhawa

I hate when bands make beige, middle-of-the-road music. I guess you can say 'Lonerism' is the war on beige music.

— Kevin Parker

Around me, there's always music playing. It just calms me down; it soothes me. It helps me write. It helps me with…

— Courtney A. Kemp

I grew up with it. Any kind of drum you put in front of me, I dont care what kind I can…

— Akon

Words connect us to emotion, the tone of music connects us to the centre of the human heart.

— Jeremy Limn

I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it.

— Tom Snyder

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let's unify; let's show more love.

— DJ Khaled

I usually have a very clear idea of where I want a song to go, sometimes very specific notes, but I'm generally…

— John Lennox

How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.

— Eddie Trunk

The music has to be as interesting. It has to keep taking you into places that you're at least not used to.

— Scott Walker

I have fallen back in love with music, which has allowed me to get back to my roots and create sounds without…

— Scott Storch

I've found it really hard to finish writing songs when you're writing on not just your schedule but somebody else's.

— Chris Carmack

I just love listening to music and talking about it, so my social media is mostly dedicated to talking about songs and…

— Esme Creed-Miles

The Nirvana unplugged album was something we'd always knew we were capable of doing, but it was just a matter of doing…

— Dave Grohl

When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side.

— Michael Rapaport

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's…

— Bruce Springsteen

We lead by example, we love by heart, we write by soul, we play by ear. We are Artists.

— Jovette Elise Cutaiar

There's enough dismemberment going on in the world without writing music about it.

— Charlie Haden

It's so fun to make up stories, but I find that the songs that I'm most proud of came from a real…

— Kelsea Ballerini

I just make the music feel the way I want it to feel, and I don't put it out until I'm totally…

— Dr. Dre