Song Quotes · Page 550

I love music because it's so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect.

— Karen Marie Moning

We need music that makes complete sense to us, and that's how 'Mess' came about.

— Jordan Fisher

I'm a musical political, I tend to stick to what I see happening outside my front door.

— Sixto Rodriguez

Content is what's super important and people want to see you performing your records. That has a stronger impact.

— Saweetie

I played a song that I wrote and thats what got me into the band. -Siva Kaneswaran

— The Wanted

I try to put what's evocative in the music to me, I try and put that out there in terms of titles…

— Terry Bozzio

Once you know the background of an individual, you can connect better with his or her music.

— Badshah

I'm still trying to do me and just make good music and quality music, music that you can feel.

— Big K.R.I.T

I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit…

— Dierks Bentley

There are moments in our lives that are more difficult than others. And I can look at each song and remember where…

— Guy Sebastian

I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the…

— Gerry Beckley

I like work, I like song writing, and I like the history of Atlantic Records. They've sat in the studio with so…

— John Gourley

The subject matter covered in Carmina stays pretty basic: love, lust, the pleasures of drinking and the heightened moods evoked by springtime.…

— Carl Orff

“I always said I'm just an instrument; I'm transparent, like a medium, the language passes through me. Which is a bit like…

— Constance Dejong

But it’s there. Just because I haven’t told anyone doesn’t mean it isn’t there, all the time, lurking in the back of…

— Meg Cabot

“She set out for revenge, to run them through, to do what an elf, an elf must do.” The next verse was…

— Darrell Drake

I been thinking maybe me and you should get together, it seems that things are better, it seems when we're together, we…

— TimeFlies

When you don't know how to pronounce words, when you don't know the meaning of the words, how will you imbibe a…

— Asha Bhosle

We cut songs that touch us because if they don't touch us first, there's no way in the world we're going to…

— Jay DeMarcus

I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder…

— Bucky Pope

The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living,…

— John McLeod

It happens very rarely, but when it happens it's worth waiting for, that the instrument becomes part of your body.

— Jack Brymer

I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

— Namie Amuro

Music is the embodiment of my soul. When I play, I'm not performing a song: I'm becoming it.

— Tash Sultana

You play the one song that people want to hear the most every night, and for every audience that's a special thing.…

— Ted Leo

When you sing a song the way I sing it, you have to use your whole body. It's almost like working out.

— Robert Goulet

I want my songs to be enjoyed by those who travel in a town bus and they should be played repeatedly in…

— D. Imman

“Every silence says something: the silence between words, between notes in music and between people.”

— Nathalie Abi-Ezzi

I want to make theme-setting music, music that sets a theme without being cliche.

— Ski Mask the Slump God

Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.

— Cyndi Lauper

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played

— Mick Taylor

It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so…

— Steven Van Zandt

When a theme is beautiful, it's a pleasure to rearrange it or to interweave it with your own music.

— Alexandre Desplat

I can't say, 'Damn, I want to sing like Beyonce.' All I can do is sing like Fivio Foreign and pray to…

— Fivio Foreign

In the music industry it's just you're either Black or white, and this is the box you get put in.

— India.Arie

We want to be an important band to people for the right reasons. It's always been a goal.

— Luke Hemmings

I don't want to try to do music or satisfy anyone else's ears; it has to come from here first and what…

— Tweet

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself,…

— Johnny Cash

All I ever wanted to do, personally, was bring something new to what I loved: the thing that I loved the most,…

— El-P

If you play a Nickleback song backwards you'll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you'll hear…

— Dave Grohl