Song Quotes · Page 568

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

— Oscar Wilde

“We were a song that had been sung from the very first ember of light in the world.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“Life is a big story. Music is just one way to tell it, to realize how many tales all kinds of people…

— Stasia Ward Kehoe

There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because…

— Jamelia

You want people to hate you. If you're just making people happy, you're like Mumford & Sons.

— Grimes

When you know you have a good song, when you're onstage, even if it's just a weird, basic energy, you know your…

— Duff McKagan

I write a lot of my music, but not all of it. I have always subscribed to the 'best song wins' theory…

— Chris Young

I write all my own songs, so if it goes wrong, I don't co-write anything. It's all going to fall on me.

— Sam Fender

I guess I've never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they're great, don't get me wrong. Excellent, excellent musicians; great…

— Phil Anselmo

I just wanted a song to sing, and there came a point where I couldn't sing anything...nobo dy else was writing what…

— Bob Dylan

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly…

— Tim Curry

We live in a world of empty spectacle, the world of spectacle rock, songs you can't remember, it's all about the expression…

— Don McLean

Nights in white satin never reaching the end Letters I've written never meaning to send Beauty I'd always missed with these eyes…

— Justin Hayward

A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you…

— Bruce Springsteen

“It would then be found that the words, vowels, and phonemes are so many ways of 'singing' the world. The initial form…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

When you question who's one of the greatest of all time lyrically... I don't sell a lot of records, but it's all…

— Inspectah Deck

I was very fortunate to have a wonderful woman as my voice coach when I started singing professionally. I was only 19,…

— Johnny Mathis

I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.

— Andrew Bird

I might do a solo album, maybe do covers, or do an acoustic thing. No Sex Pistols tours, nothing!

— Steve Jones

I don't really listen to podcasts - I like one podcast and it's called Song Exploder.

— Michelle Zauner

In the music industry, there's often a lot of egos and people aren't always very supportive, but we cheer each other on…

— Camila Cabello

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

— Shaun White

As we hang beneath the heavens, and we hover over hell, our hearts become the instruments we learn to play so well.

— Dan Fogelberg

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

— Conor Maynard

When I was growing up, we always had music playing in our household. I enjoy spending time with my father singing.

— Pattie Brooks

To a bookish boy in a Boston suburb in the mid-1970s, the lyrics of Cole Porter came as something of a revelation.

— Amor Towles

John Lennon said All you need is love, John obviously never met my bank manager.

— Danny McCrossan

I think it's an interesting thing to have to produce an album that you'll want to listen to for 50 minutes.

— Girl Talk

“And so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of…

— Robin Hobb

I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here…

— Hugh Laurie

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

— Billy Corgan

A lot of times, people just want to be more extreme than the next band or the next person, and that's all…

— M. Shadows

I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.

— Joseph Gatt

Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone.

— Kenny Chesney

Record labels and producers are not looking to change you: they are looking to make a star. And what they might think…

— Grace VanderWaal

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole…

— Brian Eno

“As long as I can be with you, even my digital heart will start to throb. Like a quantum wind, my heart…

— Rin and Len Kagamine

“Instrumental keys [on organs], introduced in the twelfth century, are so heavy and stiff that they must be played with clenched fists. ”

— Joseph Gies

Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.

— Brian Wilson

I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.

— Camila Cabello