Song Quotes · Page 761

The means of control that record labels had vis-à-vis distribution no longer exist.

— Doug Walters

Some people like very predictable melodies, and others prefer the less likely notes.

— Daniel Levitin

You don't know how a song is gonna do; you don't know where it's gonna live. You know if it feels real,…

— Benji Madden

Instead of singing hard rock, I could just as easily be singing 'The Fantastiks' or 'Pajama Game' somewhere.

— Jani Lane

Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.

— Brian Setzer

When more than 45,000 people are singing the French national anthem, it does drive you forward.

— Wendie Renard

I am a big nut for kind of weird musicality things. I love key-changes and random tempo things and polyrhythms - music…

— Thomston

Singles are your safest songs on the records. Ones that piss fewer people off, that appeal more to the masses.

— Garth Brooks

“This was where she belonged with Nur, right here, here in his songs. Here within the lyrics they were intimate, caught in…

— Leila Aboulela

I look at people holdings hands in the hallways, and I try to think how it all works. At the school dances,…

— Stephen Chbosky

When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn't about the lines themselves - it's about…

— Don McLean

Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we'll be ground down or polished up. On a piano, one…

— Barbara Johnson

I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys…

— Natalia Kills

Learning is available at the library for free; under a tree with a dog-eared paperback; at a job with a boss who…

— Michael Ellsberg

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost…

— Joe Williams

You can have a favorite band, but when they sign with a major label... maybe a new producer says, 'You can't do…

— Austin Aries

I can't write - out of all the things it takes to make music, lyrics are the thing I'm by far the…

— Jay Watson

My brother really shaped my musical taste when I was younger. He turned me on to classic rock like Led Zeppelin, and…

— Adam Scott

I've never thought of myself as a singer - I've always just used my voice as a vehicle to deliver songs.

— Matthew Koma

Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes that everybody liked, they left that to the Bee Gees.

— Wayne Campbell

Our music is a get-up music. Get you up music, uplift your spirit. That's what I'm trying to give you.

— Offset

I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.

— Rupert Holmes

One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.

— Pat Metheny

It was a dream to be a singer/performer, but I never thought I had a chance or had a real shot; I…

— Eric Nam

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

— Travis Barker

The first record with an artist oftentimes can be the most exciting. When it's not routine for them, when it's really new…

— Dr. Luke

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

— Jack Kirby

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.

— Emanuel Ax

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

— Ben Jonson

I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.

— Alanis Morissette

I would say that my music is surreal, it's inspired by dreams, and it's inspired by heartbreak.

— Gus Dapperton

Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive

— Billie Joe Armstrong

The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

— Harry Chapin

Music can make you go from sadness to an immense sadness. There is a limit; if you go too far, it becomes…

— Alexandre Desplat

I started out on guitar when I was nine years old, and I started playing bars and stuff when I was thirteen,…

— DJ Ashba

Could scream somewhat. We could all play to some extent, but we definitely progressed over the years.

— Oliver Sykes

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music…

— Lauryn Hill

Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again…

— Franz Liszt

I always loved that old song 'Banks of the Ohio' - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted…

— Dolly Parton

When you write a lot of songs, sometimes you don't have a place for them, and you need an outlet for them.

— Brian Fallon