Song Quotes · Page 634

I want a song that raises the hair on the back of my neck when I sing it live and I want…

— Zach Condon

I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

— J. Tillman

Some of my songs are positive and stuff, but some are about staring down at the ground and obsessing about stupid things,…

— Lou Barlow

“Oh, chicken feathers!" Sophie said. "I've got a song in my heart and it needs to come out!”

— Dayle Anne Dodds

I'm not trying to top the 'Muddy Waters' album. What I'm doing by naming it 'Muddy Waters 2' is to let you…

— Redman

If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be…

— Natalie Portman

I always try to relate a song to something what is going on, the working man, the times, how life goes.

— Johnny Van Zant

I got a dalmatian, and I can still get high, I can play the guitar like a motherfuckin riot.

— Brad Nowell

Yes it was we, are a few years back parted from our record company and took the album that we were making…

— Isaac Hanson

This song 'Calma' has been a blessing, an unexpected one. When I wrote the song, I wasn't looking for a single, I…

— Pedro Capo

“Dee penned my name into the lyrics of her first single, “Open Road Summer.” She wrote it when we were freshmen, daydreaming…

— Emery Lord

This is why I'm hot [X2] I'm hot cause I'm fly You hate cause you not This is why (this is why)…

— COREY NIKKI MARIE WHITMORE

Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you…

— Mary J. Blige

I write in the studio, I don't sit around with a piano or a guitar and write songs. I get satisfaction out…

— John Cale

You know, we had problems like any other family, so I'm really similar to a lot of people out there. It's kind…

— Aaron Lines

I wanted to make a record with a twist. I wanted to prove that you could make a record that concentrated on…

— Stella Soleil

My favorite song used to be 'The Nasty Song' by this dude named Lil Ru. That was my jam!

— Megan Thee Stallion

Certain songs bring me back to certain places I've been in my life. So definitely, I listen to my stuff.

— Cam'ron

I listen to 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Stereophonics, Arctic Monkeys; also the musical Oliver - I can sing every tune.

— Wayne Rooney

There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up.

— Alan Bishop

Studying entrepreneurshi p without doing it... is like studying the appreciation of music without listening to it.

— Seth Godin

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

— Taylor Swift

The only way to be original in your songwriting is to write about your own experiences, and I think that's what we…

— Luke Hemmings

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let…

— Eric Church

I want to sing of humanity, friendship, what's happening to the Earth and the like.

— Shankar Mahadevan

I played some Yamaha drums that I like a lot. And I like the Yamaha people a lot too. They've been really…

— Levon Helm

I guess I do feel the need to repent. I do feel like I owe the world a great album. I don't…

— Zachary Cole Smith

Songwriting is telling short stories. But instead of 15 to 20 pages, it's three to five minutes.

— Tyler Childers

I feel like you're able to be your most creative in private environments, and not a studio where an A&R person is…

— Finneas

“I want to write a song about one man's level of commitment called, "I'd walk to the edge of the world, just…

— Jarod Kintz

“Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.”

— Simon Van Booy

A good song is like a mannequin - its form makes sense, but there's no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful…

— Greta Salpeter

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet--pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet…

— Ann Petry

I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of…

— Chrissie Hynde

What inspired me was the love of making music and having no one around and just saying, 'I've gotta figure this out.'

— Russ

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written…

— Alanis Morissette

I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.

— Taylor Momsen

My music is very reminiscent of the sound I grew up on and the place where that happened. It's a combination of…

— G-Eazy

When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.

— Yannis Philippakis