Song Quotes · Page 617

When someone is on the phone telling me a story, I'm hearing the soundtrack that goes with it.

— Delilah

“For me it's not about money [about music]. It's about the experience of buying an album by a band you love. Something…

— Steven Battelle

I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

— Adam Sandler

The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.

— Mick Jagger

I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.

— Carolyn Mackler

One song I do is 'The First Cut is the Deepest.' I try to remind people I wrote that song, not Rod…

— Cat Stevens

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

— David Lee Roth

The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just…

— John Lennon

Someone like John Prine can write a song that tears into your soul, turn it over, and write a song that makes…

— Scott Avett

When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang…

— Eudora Welty

The biggest reason was that when I started deejaying, I'd said that the other DJs in Japan were like salaried employees who…

— Hiroshi Fujiwara

Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words…

— Yelawolf

In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that…

— Jerry Cantrell

People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

I've been singing since I was born. It's something I do everywhere I go. In the shower, walking down the street. I…

— Idina Menzel

I have hundreds and hundreds of songs waiting to get on albums, but I don't know about the three-month radio tours and…

— Jewel

When you got a group like G-Unit... we sold millions of records, we got a lot of egos.

— Tony Yayo

I love rearranging and reimagining tunes, so I want my audience to enjoy hearing songs in a new way and make their…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Even before I got the record deal, I never really used singing to get girls. I always felt weird about that.

— Musiq Soulchild

There are good '59 Les Pauls, and there are not-so-good ones. There are ones that are just OK, that don't sustain as…

— Joe Bonamassa

After much inner debate, I can safely proclaim that Mungo Jerry's 'In the Summertime' may, in fact, be the best song ever…

— Aesop Rock

People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection, and they memorized my songs in Spanish.

— Thalia

Gone are the days when the merit of a song was measured by the success of the movie.

— Gopi Sundar

I've always played a lot of Spanish music, but not as much as most guitarists do.

— Julian Bream

Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can…

— Martin Luther

Black Axl Rose, move halfs and wholes. Come down to the jungle, just ask for Hov.

— Jay-Z

I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.

— Ian MacKaye

The songs can be dark, but the adrenaline doesn't really change, regardless of what it is I'm singing, I still have the…

— Fernando Torres

With the first album, there was a lot of angst. I was very naive. I thought I was on top of the…

— Paolo Nutini

I love making music and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think that's what people are going…

— Carrie Underwood

Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from.

— Robert Hilburn

It's not that the words of the song are different; I just heard it for the first time with my heart, instead…

— S Riley

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

— Justin Timberlake

I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being…

— Kim Gordon

I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall…

— Charles Spurgeon

Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative…

— Jerry Harrison

You don't have to work with everybody and be on songs with everybody just to make it.

— Rich the Kid

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

— Mel Torme

I met Les Paul when I was about 5. I was taken to see him perform and the place was sold out,…

— Steve Miller

If you're going to make music, you need to find the context in which it might be enjoyed.

— The Irresistible Force