Song Quotes · Page 598

For me, one song is not enough to be in a person's world. I need to be in their world for 40…

— Shura

We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in…

— Drew Goddard

My own goals center around writing the best music that I can, and only I can determine whether or not I've succeeded…

— Michael Hersch

When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've…

— Perfume Genius

I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated…

— Rokia Traore

I enjoy albums, not a song here and there. The recordings I like have been a soundtrack to a universe.

— Little Simz

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

Surf is that music which is entirely about evoking something. There's never any vocals, so it's not about the lyrics, it's about…

— Stephin Merritt

Yeah, I've mellowed, but not in the sense of liking Radiohead or Coldplay . I don't hate them, I don't wish they…

— Liam Gallagher

I am not anti-Bush. I am not pro-Iraq. I am pro-peace. I have written a song and created a video which expresses…

— Anonymous

Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar.…

— Joaquin Rodrigo

I don't want to preach, but I really think the rudiments are very important to developing your drumming skills. Many of the…

— Phil Collins

I've always thought 'Southern Accents' would make an amazing country song. It's always spoken to me. I've always loved it. Every time…

— Charles Kelley

“Hold On" They hung a sign up in our town "If you live it up, you won't live it down" So she…

— Tom Waits

I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music. My definition of music is "organizing sound and silence into emotion,"…

— Stefon Harris

I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really…

— Nick Lowe

When I'm listening to music for pleasure, I'm gonna listen to someone else's music.

— Mark Lanegan

Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn…

— Robert Frost

Creating the album 'VIBES' has been the biggest life lesson I have ever learned.

— Theophilus London

If there is a possibility within a film to have a song in the music score that adds a little bit of…

— Lara Dutta

“Her wild storm had just told her he loved her, the piercing joy of his song branding her as indelibly his. I’ll…

— Nalini Singh

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

— Branford Marsalis

We want to make something that moves us when we hear it. Because after all the hype and awards and whatever, that's…

— Chris Martin

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks…

— Graham Nash

I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them…

— Jerry Lee Lewis

Everything from now on will be done online - physical music media like the CD are dead in the water.

— Jan Hammer

That cyclone in Burma? That was just me doing the dance to that annoying ass song...

— Zach Braff

I Know Sometimes You Say I Really Dont Express Myself, Well In The Definition Of Normal But Music Is Like My Expression..

— Auburn

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.

— Crystal Gayle

My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figured out our harmonies at…

— Brian Wilson

In high school, I listened to The Jam, stuff like that, a lot of English bands, really. And then I got into…

— Jamie Hince

As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.

— Scott Weiland

Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that…

— Alfred Austin

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is…

— Alison Krauss

I don't think there's anything wrong with singing a song and having fun with it.

— Joe Nichols

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes…

— Whitney Houston

In the West we are constantly hit with music of Middle Eastern descent signifying terror, intrigue or sorrow.

— Rostam Batmanglij

I missed being onstage behind the microphone. After a while, it was hard to hear another voice singing my lyrics.

— Maren Morris

I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

— Robert Wyatt

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.

— Craig Finn