Song Quotes · Page 544

I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.

— Brian Setzer

If you can even manage to tell exactly what a song is about, all you do is put that song in a…

— Robert Hunter

You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music,…

— Ridley Scott

Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.

— Dan Bejar

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.

— Terri Clark

As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy…

— Elton John

'Better' is one of the first real steps I've made into 'pop music,' and this collab feels like a match made in…

— Clairo

There are reasons why musical relationships are magical and those same reasons are sometimes why they cant last.

— Darren Hayes

“It is more difficult to find the Creator in a barbecue sandwich than in your favorite Sunday-morning song, but when you do,…

— David Crowder

“Gavin stood within the trees, observing her from the shadows. He watched the basket rise to her nose as she closed her…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

It's so different going in the studio and singing your own music and you don't really think about making sure that the…

— Mandy Moore

I chose the songs for the music more than for the lyrical content and it wasn't until the end of the recording…

— Vashti Bunyan

'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall…

— Patrick Stump

“This is a song for a scribbled out name And my love keeps writing again and again This is a song for…

— Florence Welch

There is a great temptation with songs, melodies and lyrics to overcomplicate them but in fact, you find that the most enduring…

— Ken Hensley

That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love…

— Diana Krall

I'm a singer today because of my dad. He was the one who pushed me to my full potential.

— Tulsi Kumar

I don't even have to drop an album and I pack out shows. That goes with timeless music.

— Boosie

I am not the person who is singing I am the silent one inside. . . . I am not my house,…

— Paula Cole

Music dominates the universe. It is the prime force. It has given shape to space.

— Vangelis

Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever…

— Joel Madden

I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

— Jack White

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

— Chris Cornell

Usually when we go in to cut demos, one of us will lay down some mumbling sort of stuff for the vocal…

— Synyster Gates

I can honestly say that everything I've ever listened to has influenced me or motivated me in one way, form or fashion.

— Brantley Gilbert

I think sound and vision are all vibratory emanations... it's the way the soul flowers: art and music.

— Alex Grey

“I don't know. How did Beethoven hear the Ninth Symphony in his head before he wrote it down? The brain's a pretty…

— Isaac Asimov

I've always loved songwriting, and I vowed to be a songwriter like Cole Porter when I was only 9 years old.

— Mel Brooks

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

— Tracy Chapman

I'm not a grown up until everybody realises I'm a grown up. When everyone remembers me as the dirty kid singing little…

— Bo Burnham

Obviously the music I listened to growing up helped create my musical pallet. My parents were into pop, soul, disco, RNB, Latin,…

— Jonas Blue

There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems…

— Stevie Wonder

Pushing yourself and digging into something new, that's what being a musician is all about.

— Orianthi

I liked Soundgarden, Nirvana, and Melvins. I didn't really care much for Pearl Jam.

— Max Cavalera

If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes…

— Mitski

I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took…

— William Gibson

You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the…

— Neko Case

I don't think I could write about something I've never experienced or felt; all my songs are about things I've been through.

— Anne-Marie

I feel like my rise is connected to my lyrics, my look, my dance, my character, it all feeds into the same…

— Blueface

Gimmicks? I don't have one. I'm not good-looking. Not skinny. Not anything. I just like writing songs.

— Uncle Kracker