Song Quotes · Page 752

I think of a playlist like a setlist at a concert. The first song is crucial, that establishes the vibe.

— Guy Sebastian

The music industry is an unforgiving place, and it shall unceremoniously show you the door if you can't perform to high standards.

— Asha Bhosle

When you're happy you ejoy the music but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.

— Anonymous

I don't just sing the song, I also sing the background music and the guitar solo.

— Anonymous

When I was a mailman, writing songs was my escape from the regular world, and now writing songs is my job. And…

— John Prine

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes…

— Cecil Taylor

I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

— Victoria Justice

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

— Jimmy Webb

Legends of the Silver Stallion had been told for years now, whenever mountain stockmen met round the campfires or on the winding…

— Elyne Mitchell

With the backdrop of The Salvation Army's century and a half of service to the world's poor, these songs and reflections are…

— Sara Groves

I'd rather see us sponsor culture by pushing more money to music education, and facilities for your people to create music. It…

— Peter Sunde

I think, with age, you learn that it comes in bursts and you've got no control over it. I'm not one of…

— Paul Weller

We all grew up with Black Sabbath. I mean, there's no secret there. Any of us, any of the members of any…

— Robert Trujillo

Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I'm just the next generation, since it's always…

— Jacob Latimore

I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill…

— Angus Young

I think Pearl Jam, greatly inspired by The Who, really did become a sort of musical conscience of a generation. I love…

— Robert Hilburn

“Bands like The Move , Traffic and The Moody Blues were proving that you didn’t have to be from Liverpool to be…

— Ozzy Osbourne

I do live every Friday on 'The Last Leg' but I'm never expected to be any good at the singing on that.

— Alex Brooker

With Metallica, it's hard. I tend to like it all, but the older stuff, when we get into the deeper cuts, it…

— Robert Trujillo

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

— Keith Jarrett

I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

— Oscar Levant

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

— Horace Silver

I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.

— Elton John

I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just…

— Eric Clapton

My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up…

— Nick Cave

There are a shitload of songs about being in love with someone who doesn't love you back and I talk about weed…

— Bethany Cosentino

My aspirations aren't to sell millions of records, but to write really good songs.

— Tom Odell

The Beatles kind of pervade everything. They're always kind of part of everyone's lives.

— Himesh Patel

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

— Peabo Bryson

I had never in my wildest dreams imagined that I would actually be singing on a top 10 Billboard song.

— MO

My mom and sisters liked to sing and we would jam at home very often. I would also jam a lot in…

— Amit Trivedi

No matter the genre, music is a universal language and vibration that people can feel all over.

— Mya

Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding… Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve.

— Wyndham Lewis

Though a song may race by in a minute and a half, every aspect of it is calculated and intentional.

— Jacob Bannon

The purpose of my songwriting is to put the things I have been through in a song in order to help others…

— Guy Sebastian

I hate karaoke. I don't want to sing karaoke, and I don't want to listen to people sing karaoke.

— Pedro Pascal

Nothing makes me happier than writing a song that I think is good or that I want to play. Writing songs helps…

— Nina Nesbitt

Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.

— Eyvind Kang

... Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world...

— Barney Kessel