Song Quotes · Page 666

I obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me.

— Melanie Martinez

Life is like a Piano, white keys are happy days, black keys are sad days, and both are needed to make music

— Anonymous

When your songs are like your babies, even the one that you know aren't great, you still love.

— Cody Johnson

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.

— Phil Collins

To record an album is cathartic, or at least it was with 'Belus,' but to make music is more fulfilling than anything…

— Varg Vikernes

Music is like my secret garden. It's where I heal myself from every pain that I feel. It's like a therapy.

— Jain

My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

— Carl Sandburg

You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so…

— Mick Jagger

One thing that was frustrating to us, always, was having to do so much press building up an album, and you're asked…

— M. Shadows

Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist…

— Laurieann Gibson

Growing up, I listened and was influenced by a lot of those around me. I have a big family, and my dad…

— Ella Henderson

I would spend about eight months on a song, leaving it alone and going back to it later on. I just kept…

— Adam Granduciel

I stay up night after night looking at new software, seeing new trends, what music's happening you know you've just got stay…

— Jonas Blue

My mom had wild records, like Luther Vandross, Michael Jackson and the Whispers. But the first record I bought was 'Rapper's Delight.'…

— Jadakiss

Music just runs in my family. My dad and my uncles are a gospel quartet, Latimore Brothers. They've been doing their thing…

— Jacob Latimore

I am very grateful to punk because I was a girl, and I felt like if I got in a band, I'd…

— Chrissie Hynde

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

— Anonymous

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a…

— Sammy Hagar

Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change…

— Thom Yorke

Oh my love, it's you that I dream of Oh my love, since that day Somewhere in my heart I'm always Dancing…

— Belinda Carlisle

Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.

— Nat Hentoff

I rarely know exactly what I want to do, but always know exactly how I want it to make me feel. Feeling…

— Rihanna

I'm breaking so many rules every single day, and I think that's where you make good music.

— Laufey

It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.

— Kim Dotcom

I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song,

— Sufjan Stevens

Every year I do a song for my homeboy Valley, who passed away from a heart attack.

— YBN Nahmir

So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

— Duncan Sheik

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Just equating my price to one hit song is taking credit away from my lifetime's work.

— Anu Malik

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

— Taylor Swift

I've learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with.

— Jeremy Denk

It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if…

— Vance Joy

I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.

— Lucinda Williams

I listen to music all the time, and a lot of the things I cover are the standards of my time, and…

— Dianne Reeves

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

— Tori Amos

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

— Joseph Addison

I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it…

— Chris Cornell

When I was nine, I was passing by a drum class and saw them playing and I was moved. That's why I…

— Jain

I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what…

— Wiz Khalifa

Literally everything I do is either write songs and play music, or I'm immersed in my domestic life.

— Lou Barlow