Song Quotes · Page 562

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

— Gus Van Sant

I recorded my first song when I was 13, 14 years old, and I've been running with it ever since.

— Le'Veon Bell

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

— Marsha Norman

I love having those lyrics that at first make you think it's about one thing, but it's really about something so much…

— Jon Pardi

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

— Gary Oldman

The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar taste and aspirations and…

— Mick Taylor

As a songwriter or artist, there's only so many ways you can say, 'I love you' or 'I think you're beautiful.'

— Tyler Farr

When the first album came out and I heard 'Do It Again' on the radio, that was the greatest thing that had…

— Walter Becker

A friend of mine pointed out to me, "Why do you separate your writing and your music?" I got (writers) Rick Moody…

— John Wesley Harding

If I ever really felt depressed, I would just start putting on all my old records that I played as a kid,…

— Jimmy Page

There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might have been about me,' or,…

— Chris Young

“You preach to me of laws, you tie my limbs With rights and wrongs and arguments of good, You choke my songs…

— Iris Tree

I remember listening to like gospel-y blues tunes. I'd just listen to the rhythm and the music was upbeat. Always upbeat if…

— Michael Kiwanuka

I think great songs can come from anywhere and you constantly have to be able to look out for those. I think…

— Jason Aldean

A song like 'Loyal To Me,' for example, I originally wrote that for a girl band in mind, that's why it has…

— Nina Nesbitt

[Miles Davis] learned from everyone. He was incredible. He took the best from everyone and threw away the rest. He was brilliant.…

— Helen Merrill

I pretty much do whatever I want when it comes to music and nothing is off limits to me.

— Ronnie Radke

Oh, I'm a ballad queen for sure... I don't dig dance stuff very much but I seem to hit the charts with…

— Phyllis Hyman

I think the thing that is hard for a lot of bands is that there is a lot of free music out…

— Jason Wade

People sometimes say that bands sound like The Cars, but when I hear it I don't know if they do or not.

— Ric Ocasek

If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music.

— Gary Arnold

So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.

— Robyn Hitchcock

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

I changed the lyrics of 'All I Need Is the Girl' to 'All I Need Is the Job' for an audition years…

— Bryan Batt

“To me, lyrics are harder to write when you have to invent the feelings behind them. That's when lyrics take a lot…

— Colleen Hoover

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

— Samuel Butler

“The strength of the song can be marked by the silence that surroundsit -- Zarost”

— Greg Hamerton

Most people involved in the music business, and it's probably not just the music business... aren't necessarily people that I like.

— Buzz Osborne

I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.

— Dee Dee Ramone

I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought…

— Frances Bean Cobain

Honestly, are we ever going to get over 'California Girls' by Katy Perry? I know it's old, but that song - I…

— Becky G

The one thing about songwriting that's been consistent is that I do it for the love of a good melody.

— Kim Shattuck

The similarity between my music and The Beatles' music is it has within it a very positive quality. It's woven with humor.

— Donovan

My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.

— Richard Hawley

“Most people live and die with their music still unplayed, they never dare to try. But I tell you, If music be…

— Anonymous

Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from…

— Anonymous

I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be…

— Leopold Sedar Senghor

People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in…

— Robert Wyatt

Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win…

— Waylon Jennings

I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.

— Annie E. Clark