Song Quotes · Page 542

I trade musical favours like cattle. I can't remember the last time I did a remix for actual money. For me, I…

— Calvin Harris

When you listen deeply to a song, you find all the little sounds they use and subconsciously learn how to produce and…

— Rich Brian

Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?

— Anne Rice

From the beginning, I was able to learn a song by just hearing it, it is something that I've been blessed with.

— KK

If you've got a good song, it's easy to play. But you can't make a bad song sound good no matter who…

— Donald Dunn

With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.

— Big K.R.I.T

To me 'Varayo' is a special song, not just because it has given me seven awards so far, but the experience of…

— Chinmayi

I'll put on a song that I really like and do bicep curls with two kilo weights the whole song.

— Beyonce Knowles

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has…

— Hillary Scott

“Sexual healing and general recovery need to work together in the same way that music and lyrics work together to make a…

— Wendy Maltz

When I start to write and record a track, I always think about where it is supposed to take place, what kind…

— Karin Dreijer Andersson

The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn't really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates…

— Paul Simon

The core of everything always has to be the music. If someone's in the dark and can't see what we look like,…

— Maria Brink

At nine or ten, I was playing guitar in music class in my elementary school in Jackson, Michigan. They had a guitar…

— Lou Barlow

The orchestra's an amazing instrument, but I don't want to just arrange my songs for it. I think that might be kind…

— Andrew Bird

All I can do is move forward with my music and just be happy that Mars Volta ever happened at all.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your…

— Prince

I make sure the best of what I do each year is the only material that gets on my albums; I don't…

— Eddie Rabbitt

Adding instruments to parts of a song and having them somehow find a pocket. That to me was a huge lesson. Like,…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

We have a lot of fun. There are no holds barred when it comes to writing music for us.

— Synyster Gates

I have a knack for writing tribute songs for people who will never know about them.

— Steve Forbert

Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.

— Gloria Estefan

“It takes a long time to make the perfect playlist. I don't believe in that little Genius button they have on iTunes.…

— J.J. Howard

“My mother and grandmother’s conversation doesn’t belong in the cloud.   That old song is too sacred for the Internet.   So,”

— Sherman Alexie

Music is liquid. It's meant to be messed with and played with and stretched and pulled and pushed, I think.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

There was a time when metal ruled the world and I don't see any reason why it should be different now.

— Zacky Vengeance

When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.

— Negash Ali

I'd like to sing you a song now about my old girlfriend. It's called "They'll Find Her When the Leaves Blow Away…

— Steven Wright

When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting,…

— Mike Shinoda

“It might seem a contradiction but... the ability to improvise requires lots of practice. Ask any jazz musician.”

— Ted Agon

Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, which help to change and develop my taste.

— Seymour Stein

I always use familiarity in my music, whether it's in my song writing or whatever.

— SonReal

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

— Katherine Jenkins

With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.

— M.I.A

A lot of the time in music you get to see the place you play, or around the place you play, but…

— Chali 2na

My father was always in bands. He played drums and could sing. And my grandfather was a band leader.

— Randy Rainbow

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

— George Santayana

Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that’s what we are.

— Mickey Hart

Rarely when you label a group as something does that whole group really fall into that category.

— Cooper Kupp