Song Quotes · Page 763

[Some] songs are all so detailed and in-depth that it takes forever to finish them.

— Vic Fuentes

That awkward moment when you say you don't want to here a song on the radio but then 2 minutes later you…

— Anonymous

Music is what feelings sound like out loud. I sing songs that speak from my heart. They tell my story, how I…

— Georgia Cates

I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in…

— Mark Lanegan

The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for…

— Margaret Whiting

I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.

— Banks

If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.

— Betty Carter

“Those songs [Mary Poppins score] didn't just get under my skin, they became a part of me then and there, and thinking…

— Dick Van Dyke

I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself.…

— Jello Biafra

Little by little, I get to see my music reach people's hearts. There was a time when it was all part of…

— Natti Natasha

I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality.…

— Walter Moers

I just think there's an awful part of rock-'n-roll music where people kind of pretend they're young all their lives, you know?…

— Jason Pierce

My father was a great admirer of music and the arts, so there was always a lot of culture in the house.…

— Adnan Sami

'Waking the Fallen' truly encompasses everything that Avenged Sevenfold was at that time. It was us being fearless, us showing our roots…

— Zacky Vengeance

The moment when I use to play guitar Smile on my face becomes double.. The moment when I use to play guitar…

— Ishmeet

We have Common on one song called 'Don't Charge Me With the Crime,' which is one of my favorite songs. It's a…

— Kevin Jonas

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

— Daryl Hall

“Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how…

— Babloo

Making albums is a very lonely process sometimes. Sitting around working on songs, feeling the pressure.

— Jens Lekman

Music is everywhere - you consume it every day, everywhere you go. The content creator should be compensated. It's only fair.

— Jay-Z

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a…

— Jimmy Buffett

If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last…

— Danny Brown

Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.

— Chris Brown

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

— Leif Garrett

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

— Michael Stipe

I already have a very low, raspy voice for a girl. When I'm sick, it sounds even raspier.

— Bea Miller

I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start…

— Brendon Urie

People tend to eat through the cello. They tend to take out the things that make it beautifully cello-y sometimes.

— Julia Kent

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

— John Ruskin

When you start a band, you have to find people that are good, have the same sort of mindset as you musically.

— Duff McKagan

No matter what Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious do, they can't be more disgusting than The Rolling Stones are in an orgy…

— Mick Jagger

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

— Joe Elliott

Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.

— Thomas Bernhard

There are not so many songs written about love today like there were in the past. It's all changed, but that's why…

— Johnny Mathis

“I’m a one-man show. I need to start a band. You wanna join? Too bad! What about one-man band don’t you understand?”

— Jarod Kintz

The talent we have in our country is boundless, and we are going to do our best to keep releasing new music…

— Bhushan Kumar

It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.

— Aretha Franklin

Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.

— Zoltan Kodaly

“... Now I'll close my eyes with all my strength and fly away singing my baby girl's favorite song.”

— John Zea