Song Quotes · Page 668

Each album you make, each body of music, you just never know how the world's going to relate to it.

— Robert Trujillo

When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play…

— Roger Waters

In the case of 'Shape Of Water,' I want it to feel like a song. I wanted people to come out of…

— Guillermo del Toro

“Come, let us drink the last raindrop tears from a narcissus cup and fill our souls with the songs of larks.”

— Kahlil Gibrán

The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from…

— Rick Springfield

I know where I'm going musically. I can see my pattern and I'm going much slower than I thought I'd be going.

— Jimmy Page

“It’s the only album I have where I can listen to every song with equal enjoyment.”

— Penelope Douglas

Dream Theater has never been a band that hit at a particular fashionable point and said, 'OK, that's basically it.'

— John Petrucci

Don't try and tell me Green Day are punk. They're not, they're plonk and they're bandwagoning on something they didn't come up…

— John Lydon

The first music I bought when I was nine or 10 was pop music from the '50s and '60s, like The Everly…

— Will Oldham

I don't think you should feel too pressured about a mixtape. Just do what you want to do and show the music…

— J-Hope

I'm not like other guitar players. In fact, I'm not even like most acoustic players because I use the nylon-string acoustic. I…

— Jose Feliciano

I do feel pressure internally and externally to put out music, but that excites me because I love songwriting, and this brings…

— Sam Hunt

People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and what they are supposed to think when they hear it is so unclear,…

— Mendelssohn Felix

“they can also be as manipulative as a James Taylor song. Sure, they're calming and bring you to a good place-but at…

— Brad Meltzer

I find that Bach is appealing to a lot of different audiences. It really hits people at their core in different ways,…

— Hilary Hahn

My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

— Yoko Ono

Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.

— Angel Olsen

I listen to all kinds of music and sometimes I try to do something that's referential to an era or a genre,…

— Phil Elverum

We're past the self-doubt. We just have fun with it and just try to make the best music that we can make.

— Tyler Joseph

We're more about other things over odd timings: orchestration, composition, horn/vocal arrangements - that's where we get super weird.

— Synyster Gates

I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta…

— Steve Earle

“Lovehandles, the station where love is more than just a song. This is Peter 'Punch' O'Brien and Judy Bently. Punch and Judy…

— Holly Jacobs

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.

— Lee Konitz

I love music, I've always done music, felt it on a spiritual level and I write for myself and not anybody else.

— Montaigne

If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

— Danger Mouse

You can be more creative when you're not feeling like a slave. When you're on a record label, they have you like…

— Nate Dogg

Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I like my lyrics to feel conversational and truthful, as if we're having real talk. I don't really like generic lyrics.

— Meredith Brooks

“For all the way he loved her. Every song had her memory, every rain had her smell, and every girl had her…

— Akshay Vasu

“Life, she felt, was an instrument, and the trick was to find the tune you could play on it.”

— Owen Sheers

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

— Ahmad Jamal

I like to think illegal downloads only do real damage to the endless amounts of careless pop music though.

— Ben Howard

I've been walking to school and trying to figure out what's going on there; some of the production and songs are so…

— Mike Tucker

You can say what you think music is, but the only way it really is, is how people experience it.

— Stone Gossard

I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music.

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.

— George Jones

“Now I know that the songs are just tools that help us get in the right place for the presence of God…

— Martin Smith

I remember at the age of, and I'll say this, 10 and a half, 11, I had a natural boy soprano.

— Anthony Warlow