Song Quotes · Page 670

We already had all the songs, and it turns out all you have to do is burn them to some CDs, so…

— David Gilmour

We all battling different things. Me? I'm just able to channel that through my music.

— August Alsina

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

— Bobby McFerrin

Death metal has now become exclusively about being evil, Satanic and playing full speed ahead. It's not what I'm into at all.

— Chuck Schuldiner

The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band…

— Courtney Love

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.

— Hazel Scott

I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

— Adam Jones

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my…

— Slash

Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is supposed by some that religion makes people solemn, takes the sunshine out of their life, the joy out of their…

— J.R. Miller

Instead of taking the 'I'm cool, I hope you adore me' path (with my music), I chose the path of how to…

— Billy Corgan

Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We…

— George Gershwin

I really enjoy navigating the business aspect of having a band, and there is a great amount of instinct. You don't wanna…

— Lucy Dacus

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't…

— Dave Brubeck

Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and…

— Doc Severinsen

My sister tells me I began singing before I could even talk. My first performance was of a song called 'My Blue…

— Harry Dean Stanton

"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Don’t see the notes. See the music. See the story it is telling you. Allow the music to change you. Allow it…

— Karen White

I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct.

— Devendra Banhart

Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly -…

— Imelda May

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

— Mike Watt

It's a difficult thing to stamp your songs with a label, to stamp your record with a theme. Often times that compromises…

— Fab Moretti

Knowing a person is like music. What attracts us is their melody and as we get to know who they are, we…

— Anonymous

Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

— Ed Sheeran

I had to be honest in my songwriting for it to be where it is, and it's always scary wondering if anyone…

— Calum Scott

I'm very conscious that a music video is beyond just a promotional tool for a song. It takes a song to the…

— MNEK

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

— Layne Staley

“Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible…

— J.K. Rowling

I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song…

— Matthew Perry

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

— Anna Sui

I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer.

— Annaleigh Ashford

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how…

— Lukas Foss

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was…

— Bruce Springsteen

Each composer has their own language, and I try to meet the challenges, even if at first sight, they appear impossible.

— Michala Petri

'Kamariya' is a wonderfully composed song. The concept for the video is so fresh, and it's unlike anything I have done before.

— Nora Fatehi

Jazz is like the universe: it's been expanding since its creation and it's connected to everything.

— Jonathan Batiste

Anyone can sit down and write some boring artistic song. Pop music is the hardest [stuff] to write.

— Britney Spears

“Artists make normal songs. Then Radio stations, TV and DJ’s turn those normal songs into hits”

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

When I was at school I was always in choirs and started my own barbershop quartet when I was eight.

— Rebecca Front

Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity.

— Grace Potter