Song Quotes · Page 565

Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote…

— Rob Zombie

The Roses should have made it as the biggest band since The Beatles, but we didn't.

— Ian Brown

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope…

— Eyvind Kang

Most drummers are covered with a million drums, and everyone is like, 'What are you doing back there?'

— Tommy Lee

Master, Master Poet, Master of our silent desires, The heart of the world quivers with the throbbing of your heart, But it…

— Khalil

The Allman Brothers 1969 to 1971... were all about... jumping off the cliff... Just taking music and being adventurous with it.

— Butch Trucks

A lot of [my] songs have a sexuality to them, a vibe to them. ... I call it sexy rock and roll.

— Scott Stapp

We're never gonna see bands like Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath again. It's over.

— Till Lindemann

There are many, that reside within, some masters of love, others, of sin. A symphony of voices, inside my mind, Yet a…

— Eric Nickel

When I got inaugurated in 2010, OneRepublic donated their time and played for the inauguration. And my stepfather, who is 86, came…

— John Hickenlooper

I would just be constantly writing all these zingers - like, 'Burn. That would really get her.' And I know people are…

— Taylor Swift

It's very hard to be an artist, on my first album, and I'm like asking for money for a music video for…

— Melanie Martinez

I've been given an opportunity to greatly impact people's lives through music. I want people to truly experience my heart, to connect…

— Ben Utecht

Artists are not going to put somebody new in the president's chair. It's all worth the effort; it all needs to be…

— Jakob Dylan

When John Lennon left the Beatles and started making music with Yoko Ono, many people scoffed at the idea. How could this…

— Ashley Bryan

“We must go west. Alone, Blue Eyes, leaving all that we are behind. All those we love, your people, my people.” Loretta…

— Catherine Anderson

Hearing a part of a song and thinking...'That's definitely going to be my next status!'

— Anonymous

But I would say my favorite Zeppelin song to play is 'Kashmir.' I have a great time playing that one.

— Jason Bonham

They really can't imagine what my voice is like. Every time I sing a song, they are very surprised.

— Coco Lee

I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics

— Henry Rollins

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

— Frank Capra

What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to…

— Charles Mingus

I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.

— Artie Shaw

I have to think that 'Nessa Dorma' is the greatest rock ballad that's never been recorded as such.

— Ian Gillan

We're making music to help people think and bring them together, that's our role; we're not siding with anybody

— Steve Diggle

When I sing, I try to make the song my own and sing it my way because, in my mind, I am…

— Mohit Chauhan

Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.

— Jonathan Cain

If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

— Taylor Swift

We've never been, really, singers or performers. We are a little bit but we are not like Mick Jagger or Keith Richards…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

I got into music when I was pretty young, and there were a lot of shining lights to me.

— Michael Penn

I'm doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film…

— Michael Pitt

Spending a lot of time alone, gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me…

— Taylor Swift

I always think 'Pity the Child' is a goodie. And I've always liked a song called 'Heaven Help My Heart,' which is…

— Tim Rice

Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either.

— Jim Sullivan

When you got a sound that don't sound like nobody else and it's brand new, you've got to feed it to 'em.…

— DaBaby

The only thing I love and that I do take to heart is what I love doing, and that's my music.

— Sarah Harding

Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.

— Joe Satriani

I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes…

— Ed Westwick

I write music about what's going on in my head, what I'm angry about, and what I think is wrong/right.

— Yungblud

It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs,…

— Yolandi Visser