Song Quotes · Page 553

From the first album, we've had songs like 'The Jack' that are blues based. We also did it in 'Ride On,' where…

— Angus Young

I like to think that I probably have written more World War II music than anyone on the planet after all the…

— Michael Giacchino

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

— Eminem

I woke up this morning, Smiled at the rising sun, Three little birds, Sat on my doorstep, Singing sweet songs

— Bob Marley

I love Hank Williams, he's the original emo kid. Some of his lyrics remind me of, like, Promise Ring lyrics.

— Julien Baker

I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather…

— Amos Lee

In my own career, I used to do a Sinatra medley in every show, or at least sing one of his songs.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

“Beethoven wrote Für Elise around 1810, though Elise was actually supposed to be Therese, a woman he was to marry in the…

— Mary Kubica

With someone like Charlie Mingus, there is a counterweight between melody and raucousness. He is still very melodic even though is tearing…

— Melody Gardot

Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And…

— Tony Bennett

Some hit songs are really stupid, and who knows why they're hits. But a lot of hit songs are really good. I…

— Jorma Kaukonen

The notation is more important than the sound. Not the exactitude and success with which a notation notates a sound; but the…

— Cornelius Cardew

The 'Raining Gold' video naturally took on one of the messages behind the song, which is you should never assume anything about…

— Aimee Osbourne

As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure…

— Anonymous

Before we joined BABYMETAL, we weren't that familiar with metal, but we learned a lot from Metallica. Watching their shows and even…

— Suzuka Nakamoto

It's more in retrospect as I've thought about it over the years and look back at what I wrote, how I wrote…

— Dwight Yoakam

While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another…

— Octave Mirbeau

Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of…

— Rick Astley

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

— Trace Adkins

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought…

— Sarah Vowell

My foot was broken in the middle of a song... In front of 12 thousand fans and Taylor Swift...I won't tell you…

— Justin Bieber

I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song…

— R. Kelly

I'm really passionate about music - I get really emotionally connected, probably in a weird way.

— Ellen Page

People kept asking me, 'When are you singing again?' so I kept doing it. It was that simple.

— Harry Dean Stanton

So vast is that Being that there's enough room for every sensation to have its momentary play.

— Mooji

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

— Mos Def

I probably have the most versatile playlist in the world, from country to rap to classic rock to classical.

— Christian McCaffrey

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

— Ned Rorem

The 'Beacon Street' record was kind of like a b-side to 'Tragic Kingdom,' but it came out before 'Tragic Kingdom,' so it's…

— Tony Kanal

Michael Jackson's album was only called Bad because there wasn't enough room on the sleeve for Pathetic.

— Prince

Part of 'Beyond The Music' is also the notion that no matter what came of us, or the band, the most important…

— Milo Aukerman

Whenever I've improved, gone up a level in sound-making, it's been because I've done an album.

— Jon Hopkins

Norm Lewis, who plays Jake in 'Side Show,' and I had a song together in 'Tommy,' and I understudied Mrs. Walker.

— Alice Ripley

Punk is all about doing what you want and being yourself. And that's what rap is too.

— JPEGMAFIA

When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the…

— Michael Franti

People don't think of cello as a rock instrument, really, and we want people to know all the possibilities that the cello…

— Luka Sulic

And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.

— Daniel Handler

I am a Christian, and since the age of five I have been singing... chanting hymns containing the word 'Hosanna.'

— Amy Jackson

I don't understand why people are going mad about the lyrics I write? Do they expect everyone to become Mirza Ghalib?

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

Rock seems a little bit redundant now because it really is what country is. It's the voice of America and rock 'n'…

— John Waite