Song Quotes · Page 716

If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.

— Billy Corgan

I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.

— Tom Araya

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

— John Entwistle

I quit piano and violin because it felt too rigid. It was just my thing, something I fell in love with from…

— Jillian Hervey

A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

— Rob Sheffield

“Music can provide us the emotional vitamins that we can't get from food; without it, the life would be incomplete.”

— John Taskinsoy

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

— Agnes Obel

If you leave songs sitting around, you do yourself a disservice. You have to put them out there.

— LP

I thought that the music industry was going to be pretty easy - getting features and stuff - and everyone was going…

— Justine Skye

The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an…

— Keith Richards

You don't realize how beautiful an idea is until you do it with other people. There's this really shimmery, awesome thing when…

— Coy Bowles

Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say.…

— Leon Bridges

The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of…

— Qurratulain Hyder

Songs start with my bringing in the basic riffs for what you might call a verse and a chorus, an A and…

— David First

If you want to play piano, you just gotta love piano, and I loved the way that music sounded from the beginning.…

— Future

“This proves the significance of individualism; being able to face the music, to embrace it, and then create something beautiful from it.…

— Nadège Richards

'They Don't Care About Us' by Michael Jackson - This song makes me want to dance, and I fell in love with…

— Summer Sanders

It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.

— Prince Philip

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

— Marion Cotillard

Songwriting was always my 'plan B'. I didn't even know that songwriting was a job until my late teens!

— Keri Hilson

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE…

— David Lynch

I'm big fans of all those musicians, B.B. King, Mick Jagger - they're all on my iPod.

— Trombone Shorty

I'm a musician, I always was a musician, and now I've got a song on the radio, so I'm definitely a musician.

— Tulisa

Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.

— Thomas Beecham

You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.

— Dolly Parton

I think what I do really well is that I can 'chameleon' myself into many styles at a very fast pace, sometimes…

— Joe Bonamassa

I love the Sex Pistols. I'm a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.

— Bruno Mars

I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.

— David Bowie

I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a…

— Serj Tankian

“Constipation ran Presley's life. Even his famous motto TCB— 'Taking Care of Business'— sounds like a reference to bathroom matters.”

— Mary Roach

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.

— Kurt Masur

My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.

— Ofra Haza

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

— Larry Wilmore

I really love the piano and I feel very fortunate that I am able to play and travel all over the world…

— McCoy Tyner

The thing is, my life is a country song. I don't need to be manufactured, and I don't need anyone to tell…

— Kellie Pickler

So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody…

— Adam Lambert

You can write a million songs that are 'good', but they just aren't good enough.

— Alexa Borden

'Lauder' is a favorite because the name of the song is a friend of mine who passed away.

— J.I.D

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

— Benmont Tench

To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.

— Bruno Mars