Song Quotes · Page 677

My most favorite entrance music of all time... it's that, "You're my obsession, you're my obsession" song [Animotion's "Obsession"].

— Joseph Bruce

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

— Abbie Cornish

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.

— Tony Levin

I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

— Imelda May

The first time you hear a song you might not remember the words, but you can go to the record store and…

— James Ingram

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a…

— John Deacon

As the day gives way to night i miss you having by my side my heart is singing the song to say…

— Babloo

Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.

— David Byrne

“He would talk about how important all music was. How it took us--not just the people who played it but the people…

— Jon Skovron

The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one…

— Stanley Crouch

I think the songs I was writing after Aeroplane were full of a lot of undealt-with pain that was just a little…

— Jeff Mangum

Music is a physical expression that has a physical impact upon the listener. Sound travels in waves through the air. This is…

— Kurt Elling

Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that…

— Itzhak Perlman

In 1980, we just ran out of steam. After about 15 years, Don Henley and Glenn Frey came to me and said,…

— Joe Walsh

I do have a big problem with the idea of music as a form of communication unless it's political - and that's…

— Julia Holter

I don't go into any album with a concept or a deliberate direction. It's more letting the best music that really appeals…

— Bonnie Raitt

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

— Mark Knopfler

I want to eventually get to a point where I can make all types of music for every type of crowd.

— Dave East

If you've never heard a piece of Mozart, then Mozart could sound scary or confusing, so it's all about learning.

— Michael Arden

Is it music? ... This is not the important question. The important question is, is it interesting?

— Mark Applebaum

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set…

— Mark Twain

A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than…

— Sebastian Bach

I've always loved music and held it as a sacred thing that I can't touch, as I don't really want to deconstruct…

— Aaron Koblin

I want more people to know who I am and I want to have the chance to tease my music a bit…

— MNEK

You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch, but the…

— Thundercat

I've always been music-oriented. My dad was a musician, and I listened to the radio all of the time.

— Timothy B. Schmit

When you're listening to music while you're sad all what you are focusing on is the lyrics , but the lyrics is…

— Spido

I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.

— Neil Farber

It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.

— Keith Richards

You know, I've written many of my songs while driving - which is against the law in many cases.

— Chuck D

I have country songs, I have rock songs, I have songs that don't even sound like songs.

— Riff Raff

'Allegiance' is pretty much a book musical. You know, people talk and then they burst out into song.

— Lea Salonga

In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

— Yoko Ono

Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just…

— Chris Isaak

Many of my songs just come together in quatrains because that's how a hymn goes.

— Julien Baker

Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like…

— Eddie Van Halen

“I know that whenever I see some goon energetically mouthing the words to a song I can't hear, I assume the worst:…

— John Sellers

Being in a band is like a small family. You travel together, make music, and share time with each other.

— Mohit Chauhan

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

My music is my way of reaching out to the world and I am glad that through the right projects I am…

— Tanishk Bagchi