Song Quotes · Page 652

If you're single, then I'm single?" What's that supposed to be? Lyrics to a pop song?

— Sophie Kinsella

I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun…

— Casey Abrams

You can never have enough guitars. It's like women and shoes... it's nice to have different paints on your palette.

— Dave Genn

“The songs of separation Are not always full of pain Often they talk of the fondness That flows in the lovers’ veins…”

— Neelam Saxena Chandra

Language from songs and TV shows feel integral because it helps to create the environment and describe the full picture.

— Morgan Parker

I have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts.

— Woody Guthrie

I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

— Nas

I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as…

— Jamie Muir

And, so, when I picked up the guitar, suddenly, just playing a couple of notes really, really spoke to me. It was…

— Slash

Somewhere between this kind of cruising freedom, and this understated moment where all these little things intertwine to create a bigger sound.…

— Adam Granduciel

Anyone would be embarrassed of what they did at 15 or 16. I listen back to that first record, and I'm like,…

— Mandy Moore

I can show bands how to produce themselves. In the same way, many bands think you can't make it without some fat…

— Johnny Marr

“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that…

— Les Brown

I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that…

— Angel Olsen

We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that…

— Van Morrison

I've always felt that the game itself is pretty much a melody and I am there to provide the lyrics. You want…

— Al Michaels

“You may only be a small musical note in the realms of life, but together with others you make a symphony.”

— Stephen Richards

If you need you a look, just put me on your song but, you know it'll cost about six figures long.

— Nicki Minaj

You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.

— Nelly

We're not pop stars. Living with success is a job; it's the music that's dear to us.

— Curt Smith

I don't know why music should make people want to fight. It always makes me happy.

— Fats Domino

When you take an energetic song and add it to one of the most energetic live performance set's you get pure mayhem...which…

— Machine Gun Kelly

Inviting audiences to open up and hear things differently is an important part of what I do. But I still love to…

— Bobby McFerrin

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas…

— Muddy Waters

I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that…

— Margaret Cho

Muddy Waters was, like, the king! He had a lot of adopted sons and daughters. I was just happy to be one…

— Robert Cray

My mother is half-French, half-Malagasy, so I've been listening to African music, like Malian and Congolese music, since I was a child.

— Jain

Although I don't believe in God, Bach's music shows me what a love of God must feel like.

— Alain de Botton

We've never been your traditional rock-pop band. Lyrically, I've always had more of an interest in spirituality and that kind of thing.

— Ed Kowalczyk

I've been studying people - a homeless guy in Scotland, a blind accordion player in London - and they've inspired the lyrics…

— Ryan Ross

For me, music is my joy. It's my happiness. As long as this medicine, this chemo is in my body, I didn't…

— Sharon Jones

Jazz should be much less about stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content.

— Booker Little

At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the…

— Daniel Ek

You know, I've always said, I've never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I've always thought I had a great…

— Kenny Rogers

As the day gives way to night...I miss you having by my side...My heart is singing song to say...I miss you more…

— Anonymous

A Change Is Gonna Come' has always been a powerful song for me as it comes from a place of vulnerability.

— Gregory Porter

When you like someone so much you actually listen to the music they send you or when you listen to it bc…

— Ream

ABBA songs are so anthemic, and so ingrained in your system, that you can't really remember when you heard them.

— Hugh Skinner

“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

The love of the art is what keeps me going. It's that sound that runs through my bones.

— Gino Vannelli