Song Quotes · Page 632

I love my job as a musician, and I am filled with gratitude that good people support my endeavors.

— Paul Gilbert

Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers.

— Hunter S. Thompson

You see, rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. It's something very essential.

— The Edge

Spotify - I met those guys before they launched in America and was wildly excited about the idea. 'Wow, this is all…

— Trent Reznor

I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.

— Maurice Gibb

Ive also just come off a year and a half playing acoustic shows which is fantastic for the hands, and changes your…

— Andy Summers

I think we'd sold a couple hundred records with our first album, maybe 1,000 at the most.

— John Rzeznik

I'm at a point where I let my mind go with flow of the music I'm making and it's not interrupted by…

— Mic Geronimo

After I started singing, I'd go to my dad's records I grew up with in his house listening to: Gordon Lightfoot, John…

— Jeff Gutt

I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every…

— Samuel Barber

I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point…

— Avril Lavigne

Nirvana was happening when I was 14, kind of the perfect age. Growing up in Anacortes, Washington, it was close enough to…

— Phil Elverum

If I was talking about making a song special, I probably meant getting the lyrics and arrangement together, or getting some instrument…

— John Britt Daniel

People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation…

— Brian Wilson

Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet…

— Hector Berlioz

I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim,…

— Charlie Byrd

Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing.

— Charles Spurgeon

Queen Latifah once came up to me and said 'Bebot' was her favorite song. She said, 'I don't know what you're talking…

— apl.de.ap

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I'll be doing that for the rest of my life, so…

— The Weeknd

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

— Jim Capaldi

People have been saying rock is dead for years, but the reality is that it just falls out of favor with pop…

— Myles Kennedy

If you thought Stairway to Heaven was a long song, dear god you should listen to it played on a lute.

— Bill Engvall

It's not like that anymore really, but back in the day, nobody would let the Misfits open up for them, not the…

— Glenn Danzig

There were a lot of things I thought of doing as I was growing up, from becoming a singer to a priest…

— David Lammy

There has to be an element of danger, or at least an element of intrigue, for a band to be interesting.

— Mike Patton

Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic…

— Nat Hentoff

It's not about being happy 100 percent all the time, cause that's just life. I make sad songs, too, that really only…

— Kyle

I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.

— Kiki Dee

So much relies on the singer I thought the best way to avoid that problem was to become the singer!

— Ben Jackson

I truly think that's what music is about. It's not about what you look like or what happened yesterday; it's truly about…

— Omarion

“Even the simple act of tuning the radio to a music program can lift our spirits and show the world "I'm not…

— Shirley Corder

Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have… redemption songs; redemption songs.

— Bob Marley

“Aerow creates a drawn out sense of pressure with the use of rather simplistic. Quite frankly, [the music] is fantastic.”

— Sean Slade

“The Song [of Solomon] captures the ecstatic aspect of love that is the main subject of the whole Bible.”

— Ellen F. Davis

Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?

— Zara Larsson

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

— Tom Lehrer

I have a song called 'Training Wheels,' and it's about being in love with someone and taking it to the next level…

— Melanie Martinez

Chopin was a master of melody, harmony and voice leading - the art of smoothly moving from chord to chord.

— John Petrucci

One thing that's thematically consistent in 'Sin City' is that all the performances seem to be of the same genre, like we're…

— Powers Boothe

Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be…

— Patrick Stump