Song Quotes · Page 569

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than…

— David Bowie

The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show…

— Levon Helm

“This is the second Simply Red song on this tape. One's unforgivable. Two's a war crime. Can I fast-forward?”

— Nick Hornby

I got this cheap guitar, and then I fell in love with it and basically put down the keyboard.

— Lzzy Hale

They used to talk about it in shop class, say, 'That kid right there can sing,' and I was going, like, 'I…

— Al Green

But sometimes that title 'jazz' can vex people who think they know exactly what jazz always is and will be.

— Gregory Porter

“I felt drunk on Chase and high on summertime. Why did that sound just like a country song?”

— J.L. Weil

I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often…

— Ryan Tedder

I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high…

— Joe Locke

Johnny Cash's face belongs on Mount Rushmore...I don't write as much as I did back when I was writing songs every day.…

— Kris Kristofferson

Everyone's livin in a dreamy wrld, dreamy az not it seems, thou every drm is jus a drm.. even thou sum say…

— Ashong Wangdi

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's…

— Anonymous

John [Travolta] and I have remained very close friends ever since we did Grease. When I was told that "You're the One…

— Olivia Newton-John

This is how a group can sell 10 million records and be broke, and everybody get ready to do your math. There…

— Lisa Left Eye

At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like…

— Jon Pareles

“It is what it is 'til it was what it was Let it do what it does 'til it's over If it's…

— Old Dominion

Lyrics have got to be simple and catchy. A hook is more important than an overall concept or story.

— Galcher Lustwerk

Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.

— David Lee Roth

Our music will continue to have an impact in people's lives long after we finally call it quits.

— Tommy Lee

“I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy. I'm tired of driving till I see stars in my eyes.”

— Lana Del Rey

The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.

— Pat Metheny

I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after.

— Alan Bishop

“Songs given at night will bury themselves (as seeds do) in the dark in you, to shoot a shoot up come morning.…

— Allison Boyd Justus

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

— Franz Liszt

I'm inspired to write songs by all kinds of things. Good sex with a good man, that might inspire a song. Bad…

— Lady Saw

Each child you have, you love them, but it's a different feeling. That's how it is with songs on the radio.

— Gabby Barrett

It's not like we did something wrong. We just burned down the church while the choir within sang religious songs.

— Alice Cooper

Taking up the choreography for an awards night is completely different from choreographing a song for a film.

— Prabhu Deva

Almost every time, if the vocal is really good, the band is almost always good too.

— Mike Campbell

No driving, no sleeping. Live it up like it's the weekend, when the DJ play the right song gonna drink, gonna party…

— Wiz Khalifa

The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

The grunge thing was a little bit atrocious. 'Let's all put on plaid shirts and be as dirty as possible!'

— Neve Campbell

You know, with bands like Kiss back out on the road and Aerosmith coming out, we are going to be a band…

— Steve Brown

I seek out songs that I believe in. You have to believe it in your heart first. Then the listener will believe…

— Sonny Burgess

You're just a sad song with nothing to say About a lifelong wait for a hospital stay.

— ProudLesbian

Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.

— Juliette Lewis

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd…

— Sting

I try to find songs that say something about what I feel, songs that deal with the things people feel in their…

— Lorrie Morgan

I think any band we played with would be a weird match. We're on our own, a little out there, but it's…

— Jon Crosby

I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture…

— Tom Waits