Song Quotes · Page 626

I would love the record industry to be more receptive to my music but all they are interested in is style over…

— Leo Sayer

I love songs that bring back childhood memories, when everything was so much simpler and carefree.

— Anonymous

I make a lot of money off featuring, doing songs with up-and-coming artists. I can charge someone $10,000 to $15,000 to do one song.

— Rich the Kid

Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We'll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover.

— Ben Gibbard

As much as money is important for security, for me, it is worth nothing without music.

— Craig David

I want to make something that's fun to listen to but still challenging and unique.

— Girl Talk

“O may it come, the time of love, The time we'd be enamoured of. - Song of the Highest Tower ”

— Arthur Rimbaud

The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the…

— Jon Bon Jovi

Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like…

— Eddie Van Halen

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with…

— Alex Van Halen

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should…

— Scott Weiland

I like kind of varied songs, not just the same song all the time. And I thought things like "Too Sentimental" is…

— Graham Russell

People are looking for something new at the end of the day, and I think when people can do something new and…

— Nick Cannon

What I would like my legacy to be is that of a person who took good care of her family and sang…

— Martina McBride

The rise of the Internet has caused the demise of the record labels, and has destroyed the music business of old, but…

— Judy Collins

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them…

— Theodore Bikel

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

— John Lydon

Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out…

— Paul Klee

The music comes first. Final lyrics are usually written very close to recording the vocals.

— Tobias Forge

If my peers had a significant impact on my music, my music would probably be a lot more popular.

— J Tillman

I think sometimes people have a different idea of what starting a band is going to be.

— Davey Havok

I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.

— Verite

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

— Dev Hynes

I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

— David Gilmour

I ask myself when I see a new album: 'Is this an album that they needed to make, or do they need…

— David Berman

Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

— Frank Zappa

Unfortunately, 'How You Remind Me' is the song most perfectly suited to my voice.

— Aisling Bea

And my biggest revelation that will never be beaten is the Beatles. I couldn't believe that I'd gone my whole life without…

— Ryan Ross

I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows…

— Karen O

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

I feel like, as an artist and a songwriter, I have to reach certain audiences and give people a little bit of…

— Romeo Santos

The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way...…

— Michael McKean

Sometimes the songs just come to me. I don't sit down to write like you'd sit down to make a pair of…

— Donovan

I think that layers in music, whether it's layers juxtaposing emotions and feelings or layers of texture, make for a more interesting…

— St. Lucia

Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.

— Henry Rollins

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

— Zoltan Kodaly

I've never done any vocal warm ups, ever. As a matter of fact, I learned to sing playing three sets a night…

— Eric Carmen

Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within…

— Pete Townshend

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut…

— Wynton Marsalis

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

— Brandi Carlile