Song Quotes · Page 620

As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.

— Jon Foreman

Even if I know that really it's not a great song, even if it's a naff song but I have a good…

— George Ezra

I obviously want a safe world for everybody if we're getting really deep, but my safe and happy place is always going…

— Noah Cyrus

It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I…

— M. Ward

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not…

— Virgil Thomson

I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour…

— Anne Akiko Meyers

For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose…

— Khalil Gibran

“The limbo of life is like a song, a melody that comes around occasionally but that sticks in your head and never…

— Leigh Hershkovich

We [with my mother] listened to music when I was a kid. We listened to a little bit of Bob's [Gordon] music,…

— Jon Gordon

I don't care who you talk about down south, Boosie gonna win. I'm the only one to put out a whole album,…

— Lil Boosie

Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me,…

— Ryan Adams

My favorite track from the album Independent is Hold On. Everyone at some point fights battles or has struggles, and in moments…

— Mya

It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than…

— Courtney Love

I know the 4Ps (Planning, Priority, Perspective and Patience), and I believe that this knowledge sets me apart from others, as I…

— Guru Randhawa

I don't make my music for just me or a few people. Hopefully everybody that makes music wants to be embraced by…

— Bun B

“She’d looked so beautiful standing there, gazing out to sea. Crimson had once told him a tale about Sirens, magical creatures that…

— Jade Parker

And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.

— Smokey Robinson

'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.

— Bruce Springsteen

Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

— Friedrich Ebert

But Mike was like a Bjork song-all happy and giddy and fun on the surface, but bubbling with turmoil and pain underneath.

— Sara Shepard

I want to make myself better and get working with some of my biggest influences and make the best music I can.

— Rex Orange County

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

— Steve Lacy

Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.

— Bayard Taylor

The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.

— Anthony de Mello

Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.

— Moby

“To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of…

— Dani Shapiro

And you know there’s nothing like writing a song about someone who’s mean to you, and just makes your life miserable…and then…

— Taylor Swift

“MOST DAYS MY LIFE CAN BE SUMMED UP IN MOVIE QUOTES AND HIP HOP AND R&B LYRICS ”

— Qwana Reynolds-Frasier

You won't hear any more alcohol songs from Snoop Dogg - unless I stumble upon some Hennessy.

— Snoop Dogg

Spotify was one of the first services that actually focuses on the consumer because they don't have to spend hundreds of dollars…

— Troy Carter

I really wanted my music to reflect my personal life and what I set out to do every day.

— Brooke Valentine

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

— Lawrence Welk

I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves.

— John Oates

I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your…

— Rodney Atkins

It's very important to me to stay true to who I am as a musician and the songs that I love.

— Vidya Vox

The first line of the song is always the hardest thing to write. And then after that, the song should - unless…

— Matt Skiba

You know how the Beatles broke off - they all did their solo projects and they came back together and they were…

— Kelly Rowland

Love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must, that's a part of the plan. Await your arrival…

— Dan Fogelberg

I guess I've written enough songs now. I've been doing this for so many years, that it's kinda cool just to be…

— King Khan

“Music comes out of silence and at the end it goes back to it. It's a journey. You see?”

— Rachel Joyce