Song Quotes · Page 571

I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was…

— Linda Ronstadt

Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can…

— M. Ward

If you were to say to me that you needed a romantic and sentimental song in four hours, I would have that…

— Alice Cooper

Sound, and therefore music, can help shape or reshape our thoughts, even our cells.

— John R. Levine

My songs are my hookers. I can't worry about how they are going to be treated; they just need to bring home…

— Ester Dean

Being in The Fall isn't like being in another group. It isn't a holiday. A lot of musicians are really hard to…

— Mark E. Smith

I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of…

— Oscar Isaac

That punk approach of 'We don't wanna get big' is really a bourgeois thing. It's not a tactic of people that actually…

— Boots Riley

It's a funny thing, my relationship with Deep Purple. I already felt the pain and confusion of trying to replace Ritchie Blackmore,…

— Joe Satriani

All of Europe is tremendously integrated now; perhaps from all those years of colonization. Everybody that they've colonized has come to the…

— Patti Austin

Writing a lyric is writing a lyric, whether it's sung or recited. Perhaps the question to ask should be, has playing in…

— Cornelius Eady

“ Little wise one. Still numb with shock, she stared off into the distance, remembering the night Hunter had recited his song…

— Catherine Anderson

It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic…

— Howard Snell

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a…

— Bob Marley

I think I'll always feel a little in awe whenever I see someone in their 20s or 30s carrying a cello or…

— Jonny Greenwood

I am interested in politics but have stayed away from writing overtly political songs, or message songs, because I find it difficult…

— Dean Wareham

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and…

— Jimmy Page

Nothing's gonna change the world, nothing's gonna change the world. There was Lennon and a happy gun, there were words on the…

— Marilyn Manson

“The heart is sometimes tainted with the songs of yesterday. Sing a new song today.”

— Steven Aitchison

I've really improved, I think, as far as just being able to get up onstage with my guitar and sing.

— Cody Simpson

Most of the time when we do a tune, Bad Blake, it's a tune no one's heard of to begin with.

— George Thorogood

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

— John Lydon

People at the record labels were like, 'We don't want to sign you, you're girls' - sexist, ridiculous nonsense.

— Charlotte Caffey

I said to [Lionel] Richie, "Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs."

— Miles Davis

Music has always been something that I knew that I would eventually want to pursue.

— Sarah Jeffery

Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists.

— Jeffrey Tate

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime…

— Benjamin Britten

A moment for me that changed everything was hearing my song on the radio for the first time.

— Chris Lane

The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he…

— Romare Bearden

I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get…

— Mavis Staples

It's a gas, just phoning up some bands and saying: 'You don't know us but we love you and would you come…

— Gord Downie

I'm just getting back into my songwriting groove. It's still pretty early. But I don't want to make 'Hero 2.' It's going…

— Maren Morris

All the buzz can be very much here today and gone tomorrow, but my focus is creating music that will last forever.

— Mabel

I'm not gonna write you a love song. 'Cause you ask for it, 'cause you need one, you see.

— Sara Bareilles

I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I…

— Smokey Robinson

But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me,…

— Bruce Springsteen

I write my own lyrics; I can incorporate my own ideas. And yes, apparently, people think it's cool. That's pretty awesome.

— Kim Petras

There's no point in bringing together a talented band if you don't let them do their thing.

— Imelda May

I went to a record store, they said they specialized in hard-to-find records. Nothing was alphabetized!

— Mitch Hedberg

I think all music should be sung by very talented, ugly people, and lip-sunk by very untalented, beautiful ones.

— Anonymous