Song Quotes · Page 543

When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.

— Alison Moyet

I've always been good at talking about my feelings; that helps with writing songs.

— Anne-Marie

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world…

— Billy Joel

I was lonely as a young teenager and my only companion was an acoustic guitar. I would bring it with me on…

— Kemp Muhl

There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.

— Tod Machover

I've always been very inspired by people who can make their instrument sound very natural.

— Michala Petri

There's a lot to live up to when three of your parents are successful in the music business.

— Aubrie Sellers

Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a…

— Sarah Dessen

With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing…

— Chris Brown

I see rock music as the best example of modernday storytelling that exists in our society. Songs are narratives that help the…

— Stephan Jenkins

Look, I wasn't saying the Beatles are better than God or Jesus. I said 'Beatles' because it's easy for me to talk…

— John Lennon

I'm writing about what's happening to me now. I mean, I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have…

— Loudon Wainwright III

I saw a band called The Electric Guitars, from Bristol. I described them to Roland, and he just started playing a riff…

— Curt Smith

I had actually been going to Hawaii for quite a while before I ever picked up the uke. I think with anything…

— Eddie Vedder

I started playing guitar back in '56. I was a teenager, and guitars had just come in, and I had a thing…

— Roger McGuinn

When John said that he wanted me to play with him on piano, I told him that there were many others who…

— Alice Coltrane

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear.

— Desmond Dekker

“Music allows us to assemble temporal sequences into mental scaffolding that transcends the thinness of time in which we live.”

— George B. Dyson

In my high school the Mexican cowboys, the chilangos and rancheros, didn't like the punk rockers.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself…

— John Coltrane

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

— Lester Bowie

To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it…

— Geezer Butler

I'm now working with some of the best songwriters in the world and Sia has written a song that has been given…

— Saara Aalto

In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.

— Muriel Barbery

I knew being a musician was my calling when I was 12 or 13. I started singing when I was six but…

— La'Porsha Renae

“…We feel different things. We like different things. It’s like they say with books, no two people ever read the same book.…

— Fox Benwell

I feel like if you spend too much time on the record then theres something wrong. It shouldnt be like pulling teeth.…

— Colter Wall

My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I…

— Imelda May

I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything…

— Vivienne Westwood

I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.

— Chris Cornell

I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric…

— Jack Bruce

There's no judgment on bands that continue on who aren't popular; some people get enjoyment out of it. I'm just not one…

— Fred Armisen

People were trying to write songs to knock Lil Nas X off his perch; I didn't try to do that.

— Tones and I

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will…

— Aaron Carter

I love it that my father is such a classical musician and such a traditionalist, and at the same time has had…

— Anoushka Shankar

It's pretty funny to me when I hear people say, 'I write six songs every day,' or, 'I turn out a song…

— Benji Hughes

But also there are all the famous stories about the songs that have been rejected, but then went on to become hits.

— Cynthia Weil

Music is the great feeling. An incredible one. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.music…

— Alone Boy

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big…

— Bruno Mars

I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad…

— Skylar Grey