Song Quotes · Page 601

When we make a record, we don't discuss how we are planning on doing it. It's a very natural and organic growth.

— Davey Havok

Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.

— Yann Tiersen

“Sexuality and anger are often written with the same note, but never on the same line, because they don’t make music together.”

— Sibyl von der Schulenburg

Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical…music is under two signs, the stars and the wine

— Edgard Varese

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

— John Steinbeck

A lot of times, Im singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.

— Kacey Musgraves

When it comes to the 1990s songs, we all can recall them by their beautiful poetry, melody and how soothing they were…

— Kumar Sanu

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, too much love drives a man insane. You broke my will, but what…

— Jerry Lee Lewis

Labels never made Mobb Deep, Mobb Deep made the labels. We was always poppin'. Even if we ain't had a record deal,…

— Mobb Deep

I tend to want to form bands and then create new music within them. Queen was an exception, and we joined forces…

— Paul Rodgers

I am stupidly passionate about music; it has become a bit of drug. I buy tons of CDs and spend days listening…

— Jacques Villeneuve

“Those lyrics tell the story Dahlia, our story. I wrote that song five years ago and even now when I sing it,…

— Kim Karr

When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My…

— Ellie Goulding

Blink was pretty good, but they only had three members and Travis is arguably the most recognizable one now. And I wonder…

— Jesse Rutherford

Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm and, I think, should elicit an emotion of happiness or of celebration or of…

— Alan Menken

I remember when we were mixing our record and our manager was in there going, 'You guys need to sing more, so…

— Wayne Static

“Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished”

— Esmé Raji Codell

I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's…

— K. Flay

Sometimes, you sit down to write a song, you don't realize what it's going to mean to somebody other than yourself.

— Luke Combs

'Bright Star' has been designed and the songs have been formulated around the way that I sing. That is the biggest gift…

— Carmen Cusack

I made records purely for fun - songs that made you feel good. I left the message songs to people like John…

— Dave Clark

Mike Elizondo had an incredible array of guitars in the studio, but they were all right-handed.

— Zacky Vengeance

I get so mad about ex-boyfriends, but if a boy hurts me, I don't write a song about it. They don't deserve…

— Selena

Even in 1971, J. Geils was into the Stones. When I heard Geils, I realized that a lot of other people hearing…

— Billy Squier

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would…

— Diane Cilento

I think, actually, that rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

— Debbie Harry

I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.

— Gillian Jacobs

When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with veiled faces,…

— Sidney Lanier

Europiana' isn't a sound. It's references and inspirations and the emotions they evoke.

— Jack Savoretti

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

— J. Cole

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and…

— Homer

I really like narrative songs, but I wonder if that's a thing for some people. Once they've heard the story, do they…

— Craig Finn

My definition for 'playback' is being able to create a musical moment for people to have smiles and weep for joy.

— Jubin Nautiyal

We always try to encourage more songs sung by Kim, because there are always requests for it. I certainly don't want to…

— Thurston Moore

You really have to play with the space in a riff so it can be allowed to breathe.

— Johnny Christ

There's part of me that feels a privilege not to do music, but to do what everybody should be allowed to do,…

— Greg Saunier

Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from…

— King Tuff

Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be…

— Helene Grimaud

The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.

— Tom T. Hall

I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums.

— Ricky Skaggs