Song Quotes · Page 579

I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics…

— Mike Stud

Rock and ambient music might as well reside on opposite sides of the galaxy, so it's almost shocking when a band like…

— Anthony Fantano

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

— George Michael

Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the…

— Kathleen Hanna

I started writing songs at 14 about things I was living at school, and the things I felt at that age.

— Natalia Lafourcade

Any song has to be catchy. People think class films are tough and mass films come easy. But that's not true.

— Devi Sri Prasad

While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the…

— Robin Trower

I'm just trying to breathe, just trying to figure it out becaise I built these walls to watch them crumbling down!

— Black Veil Brides Andy Biersack

The type of music that I love to sing would have to be more bluesy and jazzy and more soul-like because I…

— Thia Megia

“You know what punk is? a bunch of no-talent guys who really, really want to be in a band. Nobody reads music,…

— Gordon Korman

I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s pop music, although I'm…

— Caitlin Rose

“The word for teardrinkers is lachryphagous, and for the eaters of human flesh it is anthropophagous, and the rest of us feed…

— Rebecca Solnit

She had been critical of his new torch song, "A Side Order of Heartache, Please," suggesting it could be used as a…

— Woody Allen

We walked at night towards a cafe blooming with Japanese lanterns and I followed your white shoes gleaming like radium in the…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

I consider the opportunity to bear witness to the eloquent beauty of Baikida's music a distinct honor. Baikida Carroll is polarized; poised;…

— Julius Hemphill

“They were looking for a builder to construct the home they thought they wanted, but he was the architect, coming with a…

— N.T. Wright

A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a…

— Chuck Klosterman

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

— Diane Paulus

I like the idea that a song can be about a romantic relationship, but it can also about a relationship to your…

— Rostam Batmanglij

This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.

— Otto von Bismarck

Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.

— Nate Ruess

Make it simple to last your whole life long. Don't worry that it's not enough for anyone else to hear. Just sing,…

— Karen Carpenter

I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.

— Daya

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

— Oscar Isaac

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

— Dave Grohl

Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood…

— Arthur Rubinstein

I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.

— Jim Jarmusch

In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.

— Brett Somers

I saw you dancing out the ocean Running fast along the sand A spirit born of earth and water Fire flying from…

— Elton John

I mix different subjects in one song - family, relationships, politics - it's never straightforward.

— Lola Young

If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be…

— John Ritter

“However beautiful a song may be, it is just a tune to those who do not understand its meaning.”

— Milarepa

Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable.

— Anne Bosworth Greene

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.

— Toby Keith

Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.

— Isabel Allende

I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know…

— Sybil Thorndike

I may just keep releasing singles 'til I run out of music, which is kind of cool in a way - as…

— John Oates

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

— Paul Simon

“Many a wrong, and it's curing song, many a road, and many an inn, Room to roam, but only one home, for…

— george macdonald

I don't think of myself as a singer; I usually end up singing when I can't find anyone better to sing, or…

— Moby