Song Quotes · Page 618

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words…

— Glenn Danzig

I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one…

— Jacob Artist

I consider myself a songwriter... I guess the business end is my songs and the fun part is playing the guitar.

— J. J. Cale

I use the aid of technology while running through songs. Visual tuners and feeling the vibrations through the floor to keep time.

— Mandy Harvey

I grew up listening pretty much just to pop music. But the older I've gotten, the more varied my musical tastes have…

— Perez Hilton

It's interesting to watch where music is going next. Isn't it always rotating? It is so weird how disposable pop music is,…

— Gwen Stefani

People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.

— Ginger Baker

A lot of songwriters have written about soldiers and war, but very few have written with them.

— Mary Gauthier

When I'm gone, play my song, and spread my ashes over Rocky Top, Yeah. A little Merril and some George Jones, and…

— Brian Wright

There's a certain fast-food approach to the whole music thing that's changed the role it plays for us all. You are doing…

— Tom Waits

“Exactly, my dear sir, as the radio for ten minutes together projects the most lovely music without regard into the most impossible…

— Herman Hesse

Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the…

— Andy Partridge

I remember the audition process for Xena: Warrior Princess; I was driving there and I was listening to The Cranberries' "Dreams," so…

— Selma Blair

“The demon at length fell to singing a gentle, flickering little song. It was not in any language Sophie knew - or…

— Diana Wynne Jones

For me, the good songs are the ones that come really naturally. There are certain songs that you rework and rewrite and…

— Jon Foreman

It was a big deal for us to be on Ozzfest, especially as one of the main headliners and being the band…

— Zacky Vengeance

'Don't Even Trip' gave me a chance to really like put some swag on a song. I put the sauce on it.

— Tee Grizzley

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

— Leon Bridges

I just don't want to stay focused on music. I want to branch off and do other things.

— Trina

I don't talk with people about how I am feeling - I just usually write a song about it.

— Soccer Mommy

Songwriting I think, or any art form, the inspiration comes from your personal life or it can be from politics or region…

— Curt Smith

Nothing matches the sheer euphoria of discovering a new melody or a new batch of chords that just come out of nowhere.

— Kevin Parker

I worked out the keyboard parts on the progressive rock classic 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' and somehow managed to play…

— Paul Gilbert

You can literally create a whole song in your bedroom, and it can affect millions of people.

— Olivia Rodrigo

Both my fathers are unconventional. They are like unicorns or wizards. They are musicians through and through. The way they think is…

— Liv Tyler

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what…

— Christine McVie

I'm learning to play guitar. It's very difficult, but I'm determined to do it right so I don't make anybody mad.

— Rachael Leigh Cook

My experience of being a singer and performer is there is something meditative and very positive about singing, just resonating the inside…

— KT Tunstall

“If we meet in battle, I will know the song your heart sings, eh? And you will know mine.”

— Catherine Anderson

I never produce a song, whether writing it or making a beat, and give it a wack visual or wack performance. I'm…

— Travis Scott

'Something Good' is a feel-good song. A reminder that you're dope and have something wonderful to offer life and yourself and the…

— Estelle

We read the world - television, movies, songs, books - and the people in it through the lens of our own lives.

— Jill Talbot

I went to church as a kid, but mainly for the showbiz aspect. I remember doing a solo of 'The Little Drummer…

— Matthew Bourne

I know when I wear a Led Zeppelin shirt, I am happy to put that Led Zeppelin shirt on. It's not, 'Well,…

— Nikki Sixx

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having…

— Kurt Cobain

I feel like if you can make music, and get people to, you know, evoke that feeling out of other people through…

— Dr. Luke

I have a hard time memorizing stuff. I'm always in the process of writing a new song, so trying to learn a…

— Eminem

The problem is since I have become a big television host now, people have forgotten that I am a singer too.

— Aditya Narayan

It really has lifted my spirits. It's intensified my faith, given me more hope. That's what music does for me.

— Reba McEntire

I got into bluegrass music when I was 14, as a way to get into a band. My brother and I had…

— Keith Whitley