Song Quotes · Page 758

I'm the smart aleck. The class clown. I'm the guy who does the song nobody expects.

— Brad Paisley

Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it…

— Bruce Springsteen

I don't ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, 'It sounds good!' It's got to be more…

— Bruno Mars

My favorite songs of all time are songs that take you on a journey and give you pleasurable moments you weren't expecting.

— Borns

I'm pretty good at delivering my songs, but I just want to perfect the craft by creating melodies.

— Polo G

Rock stars are like prophets. There's something about somebody who can get up on a stage and sing. And then when they…

— Pamela Anderson

Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

Note to self: Not every song that I have stuck in my head is appropriate to sing out loud in public.

— Anonymous

Even listening to a lot of other music inspires me, too. Like I'll find something and be like, "I love this group!"…

— LeAnn Rimes

Everyone knows about The Who, but I didn't. I knew the popular songs like "I Can See For Miles." So that was…

— Petra Haden

I can't say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early…

— Al Yankovic

Traveling to the Middle East and playing music for people on the street, for soldiers, for people in hospitals, and for people…

— Michael Franti

[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to…

— Isabel Wilkerson

A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be who's hungry and where their mouth is…

— Woody Guthrie

From past experience I wouldn't go out with another musician. With song writing people can be a bit sensitive. Something completely different,…

— Nina Nesbitt

When I play the first few notes of a song and people start screaming, I think: 'That's why I did this. That's…

— Dennis DeYoung

I love that tension between machine sounds and organic sounds, and also the contrast between abrasive sounds and soft sounds.

— Jon Hopkins

I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out.

— Paul Westerberg

He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.

— Chuck Berry

Of course the headspace for the young musician is whatever the guy who is paying you says, is right, but that's all.

— Terry Bozzio

I had tried doing cabaret shows, but I don't really enjoy singing that much, and I don't think people really enjoy watching…

— Cole Escola

We're four guys that play music. We're not a part of any genre. We just happened to have come out in 1998.

— Shavo Odadjian

“And she's like, you know, the 'Grace' in U2's song, the one that 'carries the world on her hips'.” - Diana Rigsby,…

— L.A. Kragie

This isnt music and were not a band. Were five middle fingers on a mother f**kin hand.

— Marilyn Manson

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

— Geddy Lee

Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.

— Joseph Campbell

I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

— Nina Simone

Aligning my music with something that feels morally and politically passionate to me feels good.

— Lola Kirke

“Sang (company of people) is not a problem but it should not have a bad effect on you. It is infectious.”

— Dada Bhagwan

The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)

— Victor Borge

Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.

— Kenny Werner

...whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.

— Anthony Kiedis

A song can be as powerful as a time machine. It brings you back to a certain time and place, with a…

— Bernajoy Vaal

The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

— Deana Carter

“In music class, the students created alternative lyrics to a variety of songs, including “Cats in the Cradle,”

— Maureen McLaughlin

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

— Lester Bangs

What I love is when I play gigs, it's just me and a guitar - very simple, very direct and intimate, and…

— Passenger

I've never written lyrics. I get up in front of a microphone, and I just sing what comes to the top of…

— Autre Ne Veut

I need to be able to play the music, and so I don't like to have intimidation be part of it.

— Hilary Hahn

When you learn a Bruce Springsteen song, it's like learning to ride a bike. You don't forget it.

— Clarence Clemons