Song Quotes · Page 643

Sometimes I get, "Have you ever thought about doing real music?" I like to think the music I do is real, it…

— Al Yankovic

I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.

— Bill Bruford

I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually…

— Mitch Albom

I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

— Ryan Tedder

If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.

— Soulja Boy

You can have favorites but sometimes, when a singer or a composer comes up with a great song, you acknowledge it.

— Jubin Nautiyal

Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.

— John Keats

I think it's important to remember that music supervision is not just about a fantastic record collection or knowledge of music, although…

— Alexandra Patsavas

I did this thing with Trisha Yearwood, a song called 'The Price.' I had been sitting on it for a while, because…

— Bob Seger

I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches.…

— Bill Laswell

It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing…

— Darius Rucker

With me, it's so eclectic and all over the map that no one knows what to expect, ... It may not be…

— Joan Osborne

Today While the blossoms still cling to the vine I'll taste your strawberries I'll drink your sweet wine A million tomorrows shall…

— John Denver

I have no formal guitar training whatsoever, so it's been fun learning sweep-picking techniques. Working on these types of licks has thrown…

— Zacky Vengeance

I've written so many songs that are hopeful - songs that are, like, about an old man that gives all his possessions…

— Mark Foster

I thought I'd use music to confront the problems that I faced, and it helped. I found a more healing mindset, and…

— Dave Davies

When somebody asks me what a song or a line is about, I feel like I'm not done writing it yet.

— Jason Isbell

I miss singing every day. I can't sing anymore. My voice doesn't work. I have Parkinson's disease, and it sometimes takes my…

— Linda Ronstadt

Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.

— Kaskade

It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And…

— Elvis Costello

With some people, that love of music is just buried in them. It's so deep in them that they would play for…

— Kim Basinger

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

— Alicia Keys

If the music you listen to doesn't leave you motivated & inspired to do good, then it's bad.

— Anonymous

If you want to be happy, you listen to the music; if you want to be sad, you listen to the words.

— Chris Thile

I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always…

— GRiZ

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them

— Barry Gibb

There's no secret crazy backstory. I actually suck at writing. It takes me forever to write a song.

— Cuco

Homer Collyer's chosen form of self-expression is the piano, although late in life, when his hearing also goes, he takes to writing.

— Justin Cartwright

I was always singing around my house, and my parents thought they should put me into voice lessons just for fun.

— Jennifer Damiano

You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please…

— Mark Lanegan

I always loved singing. No matter where I was, I would just make up my own stuff.

— Diana DeGarmo

When I sing a song of peace. It soothes the savage beast. Even it understands that I understand at least.

— Gnarls Barkley

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and…

— Florence Welch

I miss you when I'm alone at night, I miss you when I hear your favorite song play, but what I miss…

— Tynee Williams

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

— Phil Collins

My daughter does sewing, needlepoint and very good drawings. My son plays the piano.

— David Linley

The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal.

— Charles King

I used to sing in church, too. Not like in the choir or anything, but for people around the church... on the…

— Bryson Tiller

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

— Rupert Holmes