Song Quotes · Page 561

The hardest part about being in radiohead is being inside a giant head that is a radio. Ha ha, little english humour…

— Thom Yorke

Time passes and you must move on Half the distance takes you twice as long So you keep on singing for the…

— The Eagles

When I make my music, I try and speak to me. I try to go back and hear it, so my music…

— Lil Tjay

Whatever you make from music, you invest that right back into what you want to get into in life.

— Tay Keith

As a trumpet player, I was playing Xenakis, Lindberg: very challenging, technical, atonal, and I enjoyed it.

— Andris Nelsons

I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of…

— Nikki Sixx

Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.

— Dick Dale

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

— Mike Shinoda

My father, composer Sardar Malik, used to say that a good musician should always try to imbibe good poetry. One reason why…

— Anu Malik

I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans…

— Lucinda Williams

I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding…

— Bruno Walter

Everyone one-on-one will be completely honest about the music that they listen to. But then you get into a group situation, and…

— Corey Taylor

If you can play something sincerely, then everyone puts themselves in that experience and says, 'I know what they mean,' even if…

— John Popper

When people ask me, 'Are you a singer?' I say, 'No, I'm not a 'singer' - but I love the craft of…

— Brian Tyree Henry

“So I sing I sing to get on with it I sing to say afloat I float to stay free I do…

— Heather Nova

Music is the most natural thing in the world. When we go to a gig and we all like it and we…

— Paul Weller

If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.

— Levon Helm

It is difficult to be that band that doesn't do things the way other bands do it. It's a blessing and a…

— Tobias Forge

Barry Manilow, BJ Thomas and stuff like that were always running through my house.

— Uncle Kracker

If I write a sad song, at the end it's gotta be like, 'Dude, things are looking up!'

— Andy Grammer

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

— Jamaica Kincaid

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon…

— Sydney Smith

I don't want to put any pressure on the music; it's my hobby and my release - a thing that I love.

— Iwan Rheon

Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.

— Emmanuel Jal

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in…

— Siobhan Fahey

We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.

— Caroline Corr

“I didn’t care who you were, Jake,” she said, her voice trembling with new tears. “I fell in love with the boy…

— Sharla Lovelace

I wasn't worried about flash or persona... It's all about writing a good, solid song.

— Joey Jordison

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

— Billy Corgan

My father was the one who used to stand up in the middle of a number to flutter his lips and make…

— Joel Grey

I like my song-sequences in my movies, but one of the things I like about them, is I get in and I…

— Quentin Tarantino

If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.

— Garth Hudson

I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the…

— B. B. King

All music written by a Christian should be as integrated as everything else done by a Christian.

— Larry Norman

“As he stood up and gathered his attaché case and notebook, I reminded him that it had already been three weeks --…

— Jevon L. Mack

'Ray of Light' changed my life. The whole album, but that song specifically, was just so life-changing and incredible for me.

— Frankie Grande

I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything…

— Ritchie Blackmore

My inspiration for songs is just everyday life. I just write down words about things that have happened to me, people I've…

— Paolo Nutini

“I remember a song we used to sing, "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean." But I thought it was, "Columbus, Jump in the…

— Lisa See

It's hard when people are expecting things from you, and all you're trying to do is write songs that you like for…

— Ryan Ross