Song Quotes · Page 538

Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music, man - it's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.

— Rakim

Lots of narcissistic people have helped lots of other people with their music. That's such a narcissistic thing to say! Ha ha!

— Marina and the Diamonds

What I love about making albums in the 21st century is that so few people buy albums! I can make an album…

— Moby

There is no beginning and no end in music. Some people want it to end. But it goes on.

— Florian Schneider

Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.

— Earl Sweatshirt

I love songs, so when you're song-based, it doesn't matter which way the production leans.

— Craig David

Oh, yeah, I've always thought of covering some of my influences like Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder.

— Jon Secada

“Let us be like a bird for a moment perched On a frail branch when he sings; Though he feels it bend,…

— Victor Hugo

I've got a lot of songs about having fun and partying, but it's a lot of work. Sometimes, I make 50 songs…

— Juicy J

As a kid, I always had a super vivid imagination, like "Man, I like those shoes, but they should've made them in…

— Pharrell Williams

“Each person whoever was or is or will be has a song. It isn’t a song that anybody else wrote. It has…

— Neil Gaiman

I never write a tune before the lyrics. I get the lyrics and then I write around them. Some people write music…

— James Dean Bradfield

I get to wake up every day and create music. And even when it's a tough moment as far as career ups…

— Nick Jonas

I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine…

— Jessie J

Maybe I feel like I'm writing songs that don't need to be saved or made more interesting by endless overdubs and studio…

— Robin Guthrie

If when you hear a song by OK Go you conjure up thoughts of a gigantic Rube Goldberg device or treadmills or…

— Rachel Martin

Growing up, I listened to a lot of Queen and Lauryn Hill because of my dad. Those are songs that have messages.

— CL

Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was…

— William Bell

“This world is not conclusion. A species stands beyond - Invisible, as Music - But positive as Sound”

— Emily Dickinson

I've turned down songs that would be much easier to play on the radio that I don't think should be on the…

— Jessie Ware

Guitar makes even have a word for these baby-boomers-who-alwyas-wanted-to-be-great-guitarists-and-now-have-the-money-to-indulge-those-dreams: dentists

— Tim Brookes

Before you came I used to hear our song and it never ment anything, but now evertime I hear it…all I can…

— Ana

A lot of the metal bands that were around when Metallica put out 'The Black Album,' now they're playing clubs, and Metallica…

— M. Shadows

In some ways, it's more rewarding to hear someone interpret a piece of music that you're a part of.

— Justin Tranter

If you listen to my record, I'm just honest about stupid stuff most normal people wouldn't put in a pop song.

— Kesha

Finding someone with the exact same music taste as you is like finding a buried treasure.

— Ritu Ghatourey

If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.

— Randy Jackson

Being in an indie band is running a never-ending, rewarding, scary, low-margin small business.

— Jack Conte

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend.…

— Joan Baez

These are not necessarily our agendas, but we feel a part of what a performer is, and what a performer has to…

— Kenneth Ehrlich

“These were times when all were judged squarely and fairly on their musical tastes, and a personal music collection read as private…

— Morrissey

My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where…

— Chaka Khan

His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.

— Robert W. Service

Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall…

— Steven Adler

Originally, I wanted to call the band 'Guns 'n Robots.' I still believe that if we had just called ourselves 'Guns 'n…

— Slash

Now don't laugh 'cause I just might be...the soft curve in your hardline. (from the song "Hardliners" by Holcombe Waller)

— Tammara Webber

I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).

— Patrick Stump

Songs are kind of alive, I think; once you finish writing them, that doesn't mean that that's it for the song. It…

— Norah Jones

I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.

— Esai Morales

Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.

— Billy Eckstine