Song Quotes · Page 732

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and…

— John Denver

Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie.

— Spike Jonze

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

— Bryan Adams

First time I ever sang was in a contest in Louisiana when I was 9. And I won yodeling.

— Jessie James Decker

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the…

— Brian May

My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatever's coming next.

— Jeff Mangum

I used to memorize music when I was real young. Schoolwork, not so much. But music I could remember.

— Madlib

I took guitar lessons and recorded the song in New York. It was kind of a dream. I got to pretend I…

— Kristen Wiig

"Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word…

— Eldar Djangirov

I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about. I remember reading about how the decline of…

— Billy Joel

To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike…

— Conor Oberst

There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as…

— Sinead O'Connor

I don't sit down and say, 'Today I will write a song.' I know a lot of people that do that, but…

— Tyler Childers

Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with…

— Marin Mersenne

One tries to be uplifting in one's songs, but occasionally a cloud appears in the sky and one's demeanor leads to songs…

— Ron Mael

I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on…

— Luke Bryan

Every song means something. Every song tells one of our stories, or a story together.

— Maddie Marlow

I collect as many acoustic guitars as I need for a specific purpose. Acoustic guitars are really just tools for me.

— Joe Bonamassa

I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing…

— Lisa Loeb

Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

— Wallace Stevens

Dad told me that before I was born, he would put my mom's stomach up to the speaker and play Led Zeppelin.

— Thomas Rhett

Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound…

— Mark Twain

When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've…

— Julian Casablancas

Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.

— Robert Plant

People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly…

— Martin Gore

Santa Monica was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But its not a defining song for…

— Art Alexakis

When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to…

— Laura Bell Bundy

And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

— Kinky Friedman

I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few…

— John Deacon

I don't think that the real enemy of the music industry is illegal downloading; I think the real enemy of the music…

— Perez Hilton

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

“Music is forever. Music is life. Music is something worth believing in...Music is my words, my soul...my muse.”

— Madison Daniel

“My love is like the shape your mouth makes while you whistle. Would you mind if I accompanied you on my harmonica?”

— Jarod Kintz

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

— Gwen Stefani

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

— Vladimir Horowitz

I feel that musicians are in a fellowship, and that fellowship is a responsibility.

— Meshell Ndegeocello

Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.

— Robert Palmer

I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things…

— Jens Lekman

I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't…

— Morton Feldman

“Everywhere I go, your beauty spills into my day. The trees were never this verdant. The birdsong never this sweet.”

— Kamand Kojouri