Song Quotes · Page 628

When I am excited about a song I want to release it rather than wait to build up an album.

— Jackson Harris

It's inevitable that if you write an album or a song, obviously it's going to come from how you feel. You're writing…

— Nicola Roberts

It's about important things such as having faith, pursuing your dreams and goals. My music is about drive.

— R-Truth

There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.

— Angel Haze

I had funny memories, too, but the music was more important to me than anything else.

— Lita Ford

You wait all your life to be signed by a major label, and then when they sign you, they don't want you…

— Allan Holdsworth

The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go.

— Kim Wilde

I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.

— Zedd

What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the…

— Henry Miller

Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions…

— Daniel Barenboim

I first heard the banjo on the Beverly Hillbillies, and from then on I was banjo-conscious. But I didn't actually get one…

— Bela Fleck

Music is everything; without it, we [people] are nothing. We're just living vibrations of molecular tinglings, and without music we'd explode into…

— Ron Rothfield

I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then…

— Bobby McFerrin

Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for…

— Bill Callahan

With 'Get Hurt,' we wanted to see where else we could go with the band. We thought it was time to change…

— Brian Fallon

The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become…

— Robert Plant

If an artist I liked disowned songs that meant a lot to me, I would be pretty hurt by that.

— Porter Robinson

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

— Franz Liszt

If you are gonna participate in a band, you've got to be a band member in good standing, and you've got to…

— Lindsey Buckingham

My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.

— Jimmy Page

The music comes from within and outside. Within is the big mystery of life; we've all got it.

— Jeff Buckley

I think everyone has music inside them, and my hope is that I can help them find it.

— Grace VanderWaal

As a lead singer, all I want to do is be in my own head and think about how great I am.…

— Mark McGrath

There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right…

— Ethan Coen

Just finished listening my first song of Justin Beiber. If anyone needs anything I'll be in the closet.

— Nikhil Saluja

All the time, I play with a rhythm; if I'm too far out of the rhythm, I feel out of place.

— Iman Shumpert

More than a career, I feel that I've got a function. I see things in a much more holistic way. Some people…

— Jackson Browne

It's trippy to think we have an album that's 10 years old. It's even trippier to think we have a couple of…

— Ben Gibbard

“HIT SONG written by Johnny Mercer during the Second World War contained the words “accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative….”

— Sir John Templeton

I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.

— Lyle Lovett

I love characters songs and I love to fit into a story. I love singing through a character's journey.

— Katie Finneran

If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The standard of music has come down. There is only screaming and shouting in songs today and I don't want to sing…

— Kumar Sanu

You have to learn the dynamics of a song, and that takes time and practice. Sometimes, it takes years of playing it.

— Susan Tedeschi

It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.

— Adele

I feel a profound connection to you based on the music in your shared iTunes folder.

— Anonymous

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate…

— Ariel Pink

I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

Fifty-one million likes doesn't mean we're going to sell 51m albums or concert tickets.

— Troy Carter

I'm Not a Player girl.Do you see a playlist on me?.If I was a player you would have been my favourite song…

— Curtis Mayne