Song Quotes · Page 640

I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake…

— Sade Adu

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.

— Elton John

I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed.

— Artur Schnabel

Life Is A Song We Play Each Day. For Every Mistake We Make, The Song Goes Out Of Tune. But Keep On…

— Pacifiersucker

I got the idea of what a band should be from listening to Booker T and Otis Redding.

— Paul Rodgers

Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not…

— Randy Newman

Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.

— Evelyn Glennie

I don't really have a set-in-stone process or formula. Sometimes the melody is there and I have to chase down the lyrics.…

— Kasey Anderson

“No matter how much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we…

— Lisa Wingate

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we…

— Alan Watts

Playing a flute is like writing a book. You're telling what's in your heart...It's easier to play if it's right from your…

— Eddie Cahill

CM has always stood for one thing: Chicago Made. Chick Magnet? That’s preposterous. Girls don’t like me. I was born and raised…

— CM Punk

“Do or die, you'll never make me Because the world will never take my heart Go and try, you'll never break me…

— Gerard Way

I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really…

— Keith Emerson

I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as…

— Tristan Wilds

It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you…

— Mackenzie Astin

'In the Pines' is a very old song dating back to slavery. Lead Belly made it popular.

— Fantastic Negrito

It's the song in your heart that wants you to help make yourself a better person, and to help other people do…

— Mattie Stepanek

I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

— Taylor Swift

There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop…

— Virginia Graham

Somewhere we went wrong. Our love is like a song, but you won't sing along. You've forgotten... About... Us..

— Jayden

Music brings people together. So my function in anything I do is to help bring people closer in.

— Gord Downie

I don't really concentrate on Urban AC or whatever. I don't concentrate on genres or how people section off songs for radio.

— B.J. The Chicago Kid

I feel like the music should be a reflection of the culture and the world we're living in.

— Naughty Boy

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

— Mick Jagger

Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and I'm always going to want to do it.

— Naturi Naughton

I knew 'Hurt' way before Dad recorded it. In 1992, 'Downward Spiral' was one of my favorite albums.

— John Carter Cash

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

— Michael Franti

You just hope to do music that people will embrace... music that will be cutting edge and will be recognized.

— Philip Bailey

I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning.

— Charlie Haden

Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major…

— Alex Ebert

It's not easy to decide what kind of music should be our title song or which direction we should go in.

— Ok Taec-yeon

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just…

— Bruno Mars

With 'City of Black & White,' I wanted a record that would make you feel good, that would sort of take you…

— Mat Kearney

I hated old people as a young kid who thought he knew anything about punk rock. I just thought old people sucked…

— Anthony Green

When I hear music, I come alive. I feel electrified. I just get into the music and I start moving.

— Courtney Hadwin

'My Church' - that was really the tipping point of me going from songwriter to artist.

— Maren Morris

I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the…

— Mick Ronson

We were fans of Green Day and Nirvana or whatever, but the bands we really loved were Chicago bands that didn't really…

— Matt Skiba