Song Quotes · Page 700

If I didn't make a single song in two months, I'm slippin'. You can't just party every night.

— G-Eazy

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.

— Billie Holiday

If you get a song which really cracks it for you, it is fantastic, as people, more than watching your film, watch…

— Prachi Desai

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't…

— Will Oldham

“I personally feel that the universe behaves more like a song than an equation because math is about static law and music…

— Rick Delmonico

I don't do much press. I don't like to talk about my music too much before I do it.

— Skrillex

For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."

— Alan Licht

“I just want to break that song into pieces," she said, "and love them all to death.”

— Rainbow Rowell

I like to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' when I'd doing cardio. But, sometimes I do need good music to get me moving. I…

— Alison Sweeney

“I wanted a song that would touch me, touch my life and theirs. A portuguese song, but not a portuguese. song. A…

— Gayl Jones

I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't overintellectualize music as a special medium that only some people…

— Jakob Dylan

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with…

— Bobby McFerrin

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I'm certainly treated differently to the boys in the band. People make assumptions about what I do and don't do within our…

— Grace Chatto

I've got these five-pound weights and a treadmill in the living room. I work out the other parts that have affected my…

— Sharon Jones

I think that's the great thing about music: It can communicate emotionally. And you don't have to necessarily get all of the…

— Ronny Cox

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes…

— Jamie Foxx

I like Nirvana, but I couldn't say that I was influenced by them. I like to tell a story.

— Art Alexakis

When you ask a songwriter, "What's your favorite song?" he goes, "The next one."

— Vince Gill

There are just as many dirt bags in independent music as there are in major labels.

— Matt Skiba

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down…

— Slash

When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forward motion in his…

— Bill Dixon

Eric Clapton has earned all of our respect. He is the greatest. He opened the doors for us. Without Cream, there is…

— Butch Trucks

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do. And at the end of the day, whether it works…

— Kid Rock

The Beatles weren't like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band.

— Gene Simmons

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

— Joey Santiago

I never paid attention when the LP became the cassette and the cassette became the CD and now we're dealing, you know,…

— Clive Davis

Music! Helps reunite you with things you miss, take you from things you want to forget, shows you you're not alone and…

— Nishan Panwar

Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.

— Nancy Werlin

You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive.

— Rush Limbaugh

Music is a very sensitive thing. We get musically attached to a project and it has the power to affect your mood.

— Ankit Tiwari

There's just so much stuff that sounds like Flying Lotus now - I really like what he does, but I don't want…

— Gold Panda

This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox…

— Bob Brookmeyer

'Storm' was the first song I did as a member of YG. The record gave me a lot of pressure. I didn't…

— G-Dragon

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

— Henry David Thoreau

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of…

— Billy Sherwood

But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

— Edie Brickell

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

— John McLaughlin

“...singing ballads whose words had never known paper but lived only on the rasping edge of their own voices.”

— Laini Taylor

All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.

— Hans Zimmer