Song Quotes · Page 572

I've only covered a few songs because I feel that if you're not going to go beyond the original artist in some…

— Dawn Angelique

You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts.

— Kiesza

I think Korn, I wasn't into them at all. And then I listened to the album and I was, like, 'Wow. It's…

— Lacey Sturm

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a…

— Tom Wopat

Every single song on 'Torches' was a little self-contained pop song, so there wasn't any fat on the songs; there wasn't a…

— Mark Foster

A song is so not good if I can tell it's coming from a disingenuous place. It's like a little lie-detector test,…

— Olivia Rodrigo

It's weird to me to even say, "I wrote this song." I never feel like I wrote it; I feel like I…

— Greg Saunier

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be…

— Desmond Dekker

'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the…

— Sampha

It is God who gives us the spirit of worship (Psalm 133:3), and it is what we know of God that produces…

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

You have to be serious, and you must have a constantly inquiring mind. But I find it's new music that really stretches…

— Julian Bream

“Ah,steeds,steeds,what is steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your…

— Anonymous

I think there's always been a myth that sailors brought in records in their knapsacks as if you could ... in the…

— Derek Taylor

Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body…

— Margaret Mead

“To be a vessel, a conduit to a collective unconscious where all the music had seemingly existed for eternity, seemed a fantastic…

— Devin Townsend

I tried writing this book about a singer in a wedding band, but realized I only wanted to write the book so…

— Megan McCafferty

I am convinced that music really is the universal language of beauty which can bring together all people of good will on…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Songwriting is such a personal thing and it's hard to be in a room with somebody you don't know and trust.

— Martie Maguire

[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a…

— Courtney Love

The other day, I said I should write a song, 'When Does the New Wear Off?' I think it would be a…

— Jimmy Dean

I don't like to say, "Oh, I don't like this kind of music." I like to listen to it and try to…

— John Darnielle

1994 was the nadir for heavy metal, although the rest of the '90s weren't much of a picnic either.

— Martin Popoff

I'll leave it to other people to evaluate the legacy of my book, but I'm very moved when musicians tell me that…

— Michael Azerrad

I like the challenge of writing music without being the coolest guy or band in the room.

— John Gourley

I guess because we're essentially a two-man band, we're attracting Wham's crowd. But Wham! are more of a businessman's band.

— Curt Smith

Between sixteen and eighteen, I was singing anywhere I could, in bars or down at the pub.

— Rita Ora

I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

— Damon Albarn

That to me was really, certainly, the gateway into discovering John, ... I feel I found the speaking voice through the singing voice.

— Joaquin Phoenix

If you're always on the road and you're writing from hotel rooms, or in a van, the songs are just going to…

— Ellie Rowsell

You used to make records, record companies sold them, and people went to record stores and bought them. That's all gone now.

— Joe Walsh

Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.

— Klemens von Metternich

I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but I just always knew that my career would be playing music.

— Jonny Lang

'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for…

— Luke Bryan

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and…

— Amy Winehouse

In Cleveland, music was always a big part of my life. That's really where I cut my teeth.

— Mark Foster

The original Beach Boys are Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, Mike Love, and Alan Jardine.

— Mike Love

I've been thinking... Maybe you're a mockingbird... Mockingbirds imitate the songs of other birds... No, I've never heard of any copyright problems.

— Charles M. Schulz

What puts me in the perspective of the power of a song is listening to it at full volume.

— Lights

I wrote my own anthem: it's called 'Mariah's Theme.' It's on the 'Rainbow' album from '99. Back in the day.

— Mariah Carey

I don't wanna make hood music, I don't wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.

— Pitbull