Song Quotes · Page 629

I always thought I wrote good bridges. I was a bit more impressed with the bridges I wrote than maybe the songs…

— Rick Nielsen

One reason why love songs are better than love itself is that you can replay them.

— Tablo

My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

— Condola Rashad

I'm not a singer. I double-track my vocals. I'm just not secure in my voice. I can't do single-track - I sound…

— Cuco

A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they…

— Phyllis Diller

I feel really personally connected to all of the songs, so stepping back is really hard.

— Hamilton Leithauser

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.

— Sharon Jones

“Peace is the music of every soul. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music”

— Amit Ray

Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about…

— George R. R. Martin

If you want to be a songwriter and place a song with a popular artist, then it's ok to follow the trends.…

— Wendy Starland

I'll have a chorus pedal or a flanger or an echo, that kind of thing. But as far as specific pedals, the…

— Paul Gilbert

I have to have music playing constantly. It creates the tone and mood for anything you are doing. I specifically love rock,…

— Marisa Miller

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more,we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a…

— Anonymous

You should have something to say, an idea you want to get out, and if you don't, just get out of the…

— Paolo Nutini

It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and…

— Yehudi Menuhin

Now they are a circle, and they vibrate together, they pulsate together. Their hearts are no longer separate, their beats are no…

— Anonymous

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

— Mark Hoppus

Music, life, a lot of the things that we go through in the world, a lot of questions that we have about…

— Rakim

So I guess I'm a fool, I'm a fool in love. But I'm willing to stay here, and bask in the glory…

— Rihanna

When I do the Led Zeppelin Experience I feel sort of responsible and it's a more nerve-wracking gig.

— Jason Bonham

It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.

— Sloane Crosley

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

— Frank Ocean

I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times…

— Zooey Deschanel

When I was about 11 years old, I wrote a song with my dad. Then in high school I started more writing.

— Gabby Barrett

One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song!

— Woody Guthrie

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there

— Lucinda Williams

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.

— Eric Clapton

Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.

— Alexander Pope

I wanted people to say that our music sounds like Porcupine Tree, not that it sounds like King Crimson.

— Steven Wilson

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.

— Erin McKeown

At the end of the day, I'm just trying to feel the music and be free - as free as possible.

— Jeff Gutt

The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?

— Ringo Starr

I really liked the Sex Pistols when they came out and I thought they had a lot of melody.

— Kim Shattuck

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want…

— Brian Eno

“By the summer of 1958, the nucleus of the future Beatles—Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison, two protons and a neutron—was formed.”

— Anonymous

These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.

— Al Yankovic

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

— John Mayall

My mum didn't want me to really pursue music in the beginning, but I'm a classically trained guitarist because of her.

— Jax Jones

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of…

— Suzanne Vega