Song Quotes · Page 745

Just because I don't sing about the normal country themes doesn't mean my songs aren't country. I'd rather sing about having fun.

— Kenny Chesney

I don't really believe in genres. I don't want people to have any preconceptions about me. I want the first impression to…

— Hiromi Uehara

I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

— Earl Scruggs

I just try to stay honest with myself and in doing that I feel like the songs are going to resonate.

— Corey Smith

How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?

— Jon Bon Jovi

The greatest motivation to share the gospel w/ someone today & everyday: Another voice around the throne. A louder song for Jesus.

— Matt Papa

Don't tell people you are broke. Guilting fans into buying your music never works.

— Anonymous

I think my sound is very loud. I want other people to describe it as a form of therapy - therapeutic music,…

— Rico Nasty

I enjoyed working with Vishal Bhardwaj. As an artist I still think the song could have been better but everyone liked it…

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

Mad with the love of a wife for her husband... sing for the Most High sing for no other. We are all…

— Trevor Hall

I have music in my head; I can't help it. You can put a gun to my head and it's not going…

— Greg Saunier

There's a story behind every old ballad or work song or nonsense song that I ever knew. Sometimes it's a fascinating story.…

— Pete Seeger

It seemed so wimpy at first when I started to play [guitar]. So I started playing loud with lots of effects just…

— J Mascis

Music is so clearly a commodity now. At one point, maybe 20 years ago, there were still some rumblings about keeping the…

— Eef Barzelay

Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my…

— Chris Hardwick

Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child,…

— PJ Harvey

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.

— Dan Bejar

“Sound systems are what turn cars into escape vehicles, even if you've got nowhere to go.”

— Adam Haslett

Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.

— Yul Vazquez

And I don't give a damn about a greenback dollarSpend it fast as I can for a wailin' song and a good…

— Hoyt Axton

“Frankly, our music has too often been shallow, discordant, or played with a wooden concern for technical correctness but without feeling and…

— Brian McLaren

Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often full the gap.

— Sena Jeter Naslund

You wind up listening to one song that you really like 30 times on YouTube and then you're done with it. That's…

— Kevin Shields

Cinderella obviously got caught up in the hair metal scene, but they were such a blues band. And such a good live…

— Lzzy Hale

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.

— Herbie Mann

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.

— Ricky Skaggs

Music is the thing you can really get personal with without people really knowing what it's about.

— Ava Michelle

Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch.

— S. D Gordon

I usually have a song in my head. I'm thinking music, I'm thinking lyrics. Music helps me get to those moments. The…

— Charlie Sheen

All the hills and vales along Earth is bursting into song, And the singers are the chaps Who are going to die…

— Charles Sorley

When kids were busy playing at the age of 11, I was singing for the heroine of 'Shastra.'

— Sunidhi Chauhan

For the first 12 years of recording I would finish the album, then on the day it came out I'd never hear…

— David Berman

We just thought that bands from the U.S. in general were just really boring, and they didn't represent what we felt pop…

— Ron Mael

I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.

— Cameron Crowe

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

— Olly Alexander

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

— J. Cole

Technically, a Ghost song could just be piano and vocals, but it could also be full, pounding, heavy-thrashing hard rock.

— Tobias Forge

Snow Tha Product was dope. She wanted me on a song, so I did it for her. I ain't charge her nothing.

— Tech N9ne

I'm just going to do music and when I feel like I've gotten enough music to put an album together then that's…

— Belly

I didn't ask to be a musician, but I see the responsibility of it and I am grateful for it.

— Melody Gardot