Song Quotes · Page 730

The 'Discovery' album was quite a successful record but we didn't tour after that.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?

— Ken Burns

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

— Siobhan Fahey

I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of…

— David Gilmour

In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then…

— Jon Landau

I love when a song is so specific that there's not much room for interpretation.

— Gracie Abrams

Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I…

— Petra Haden

So why must it wound him that the most despairing music is full of beauty? Why must it hurt him and make…

— Anne Rice

“Rhythm is a conception, not a physical reality. It is true that, to be realized in music, rhythm must be marked by…

— Henry Cowell

We were never the cool band to like. They tried to put us into a hair-metal thing, but we weren't really Warrant…

— Nuno Bettencourt

I feel like a lot of people in the hip hop world don't take me seriously as a rapper, and I feel…

— Travie McCoy

The second song is called 'Easy As Life,' which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being…

— Deborah Cox

I got hit up for a tampon commercial and so I asked [JD and Jo] if they had anything. Jo sent that…

— Kathleen Hanna

There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing…

— Nick Cave

The first record i ever bought was the Blues Brothers' 'Briefcase Full of Blues.' I wanted to get into comedy, so I…

— John Popper

When I was around 13 years old, I started playing in bands and became obsessed with Blink-182 and Newfound Glory. I didn't…

— Cassadee Pope

Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.

— Hans Christian Andersen

I feel like we're constantly getting better musically, and more of what's in my heart and head is coming through.

— Gavin Creel

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart…

— Lucinda Williams

A lot of people say 'Boo'd Up' reminds them of '90s R&B. It has that feeling, which is why I think people…

— Ella Mai

“The Sama Veda of India contains the world’s earliest writings on musical science. The”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“And she sang. Perhaps she'd never stop, for it was rather freeing, this blissful, empowered place where she was nothing but rhythm…

— Dianna Hardy

You might also see that some of my playlists are simply two songs on repeat fifteen times, like I’m a psycho getting…

— Mindy Kaling

I carry on singing because I love it. The closer you are to the end, the more you understand how important it…

— Jose Carreras

People think this is a competition between bands, when the reality is the more successful bands the better.

— M. Shadows

I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.

— Bruce Springsteen

Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.

— Sebastian Bach

“Most girls want love sonnets, and you want a song about a cowboy wanted dead of alive- Jax Stone”

— Abbi Glines

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to…

— Lady Gaga

It's beyond my wildest dreams to come out, represent my family, my father and the music of Led Zeppelin.

— Jason Bonham

Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it…

— Roberta Flack

Songs like 'I Believe In You' are why I tend to gravitate towards being so laid back.

— Uncle Kracker

My dad had a guitar but it was acoustic, so I smashed a mirror and glued broken glass to it to make…

— Max Cavalera

I rejected most of the folk I was exposed to in the Seventies. I came around later to Tom Waits, some parts…

— Chris Cornell

You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.

— Justin Timberlake

I sing 'All Apologies' with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they realize it's a different story.

— Nina Hagen

Music does more than soothe the soul, it brings balance to the mind, body, and spirit.

— Bertice Berry

I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it,…

— Ziggy Marley

Hendrix was a natural genius who played many beautiful styles. Talent as great as his doesn't come through life very frequently. Hendrix…

— Alex Lifeson

I'm a fan of Otis Redding. I've sat around trying to copy some of his phrasing and learn from him, but it…

— Chris Carmack