Song Quotes · Page 636

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I…

— Don McLean

“The static’s nice. I could do without the screeching.” “Are you kidding? That’s the music of the spheres, commissar. It’s beautiful .…

— Peter Watts

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part…

— Brian Eno

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox…

— Chino Moreno

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I…

— Jerry Reed

Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained.

— Carlo Grante

It was important that this album [Chain Letter] was an accurate reflection of me

— Brooke Valentine

'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.

— Sarah McLachlan

There are records that you just sink into. They coincide with what you’re going through and become an ally. If our records…

— Matt Berninger

The purity of finding the right artist, that artist that's gonna be the next hall of famer, that artist that's gonna be…

— Clive Davis

Rap music and rap records used to always be like this: we get one or two shots to a piece cause it…

— Chuck D

“And, of course, that is what all of this is - all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that…

— Nick Tosches

I like all of the typical hard rock bands. I'm an AC/DC fanatic. I love ZZ Top, just about any Van Halen,…

— Mark Mendoza

It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me…

— Carrie Brownstein

Everything is super personal. Basically all of the songs are 'this is my life and what I feel about it.' That's how…

— Elena Tonra

In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

When you play a show and you see people singing your lyrics back to, you feel as if they do know you.

— Orianthi

Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don't get a chance to dwell on the music,…

— Carolyn Davidson

I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music…

— Yolanda Adams

If a kid goes and buys a CD at Best Buy, we have no idea who the person is, how many times…

— Troy Carter

Songwriting was very tough for me... I would go in and sit and hope for inspiration to come, and it was rarely…

— Leon Russell

I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during…

— Yvonne Strahovski

When I make my socially conscious songs, I go hard with the lyrical content; I go hard with the imagery.

— Raheem DeVaughn

I think it's important to have a narrative and to have a point with your music and to be going somewhere with…

— Benny the Butcher

“The last new song you liked came out a long, long time ago, and the radio never plays it anymore.”

— Nic Pizzolatto

I think that for every artist, it's very important to have an output and to feel very strongly about the music you're…

— Jan Vogler

“The silence must be longer. This music is about the silence. The sounds are there to surround the silence.”

— Arvo Pärt

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

— Alison Krauss

If you take care of the music first, and then add elements of a good show, then it makes for a good…

— Steve Harris

I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through.

— Katy Perry

Surround yourself with people who allow you the time to really discover what kind of a musician you truly are.

— Jack Savoretti

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.

— Keith Richards

The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music.

— Girl Talk

I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass. It…

— Stephen Bruner

[Kino] worked really well as a song title, and to build into a lyric, and also how we embraced mulit-media at the…

— Stephen Mallinder

As a versatile artist, you can't pick a genre and I have this global feelgood presence.

— Quincy Brown

This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.

— Eva Ibbotson

God, I hate my voice! Everyone thinks I'm a female, probably... I am actually a male!

— Ray Toro

The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.

— Malcolm Mclaren

There's this one song called 'Final Warning' that I'm really excited about because I love the contrast of my vocal sounding very…

— Skylar Grey