Song Quotes · Page 768

The music is going to die if you don't tap into something that people today can relate to.

— Robert Glasper

There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does…

— Devendra Banhart

Bernstein has been disclosing musical secrets that have been well known for over 400 years.

— Leonard Bernstein

I was in a party band in the early '80s, and we played Sabbath and Ozzy songs as well as Rush and…

— Robert Trujillo

Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again.

— Louise Bogan

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.

— Anonymous

“I have said before that the music is the words and the words are the music It is all there for you…

— Sun Ra

One day I'll make a rap song, the next day I'll make a pop song, the next day I'll make a rock…

— Tierra Whack

When you first start out, people think this is super easy and you find your crew super quick. But you've really got…

— Julia Michaels

My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles…

— Gunther Schuller

Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time.…

— Madonna Ciccone

In your eyes the light the heat in your eyes I am complete in your eyes I see the doorway to a…

— Peter Gabriel

I've always thought, "I could probably write one of these country songs and send them to these places and make up this…

— Josh Jones

I believe that music offers us possibilities for analysis, at least in my case, more profound in many ways, but at the…

— Bocafloja

Well, you can't throw heavy, analytical, thought-provoking songs at people 24/7. It's been my experience over the last 20 years that on…

— Ronnie Dunn

Perhaps the bands emerging nowadays don't have the right context around them to help them grow. We were born at the right…

— Joselo Rangel

I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.

— Rex Orange County

I want to create music that moves me, not just music that is going to get me famous or make someone at…

— Luke James

We had a demo recorded that we made available on our MySpace site, and that was quite successful for us too, but…

— Maria Brink

I started in a band called Timbiriche, we toured the world when I was 8; I have 23 albums.

— Paulina Rubio

If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in…

— Afrojack

As a songwriter, simplicity - what not to do, what not to play - can be the hardest thing to achieve.

— Nancy Wilson

I feel like I've mastered Dave East. For a long time I was trying to figure out who I was and what…

— Dave East

My dad wrote a song about the people in the slides. I started playing harmonica. I was only six.

— Rachel Trachtenburg

As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are…

— Dierks Bentley

When I first started writing lyrics and stuff, I was writing it to garage, and obviously garage kind of progressed to grime.

— Lady Sovereign

Nailbomb was never really a big record. It's big in the underground. It's huge and it developed a big cult following.

— Max Cavalera

I'd be a sucker for a guy who wrote me a song,” I said. “Like Beth or Rosanna or Sara. Or Sharona.…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

Oh, you know record companies. . . at the end of the day, it's business. If you analyse it, you're just a…

— Enrique Iglesias

The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after…

— Roy Wood

I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am.

— Linda Perry

Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was…

— Eddie Murphy

I'm a well rounded artist and I love to make music and create and be different. Hopefully I get the opportunity to…

— Tony Sunshine

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

— Igor Stravinsky

Nostalgia has always been a key player in my songwriting cause within that space I find a great deal of inspiration.

— MO

I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

— Laura Marling

If I don't relate to a song, I won't sing it. The thing is that if I wrote it, I'm always going…

— Beth Hart

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

— Maurice Gibb

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

— Waylon Jennings

We wrote some songs. We had a band name. We asked ourselves, 'What else do cool bands have? A theme.'

— Jesse Rutherford