Song Quotes · Page 771

Dubstep has been big in the UK for years. I'm fine with hearing a dubstep drop in any song.

— Katy B

You can blame it on my soul but the music be compelling it. To do the type of shit to make you…

— Twiztid

We just knew that we wanted to be in a band. We wanted to be in a great live band and we…

— Jim Kerr

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that…

— Bruce Sterling

I like to talk. That's why I can't karaoke in a private room. Those types of shenanigans are only good in a…

— Liza Lapira

Truthfully, the only reason I'd ever want to do music is if it brings people hope.

— Jen Ledger

If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.

— Abbie Hoffman

In spring more mortal singers than belong To any one place cover us with song. Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng.

— Robert Frost

The labels are not getting the returns they want from their PR. Plus, for every Taylor Swift there are a hundred thousand…

— Tony Visconti

Yeah it's completely different, it's matured tenfold. We wrote the first album over five years as teenagers but now we've got the…

— Dave McPherson

When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK,…

— Paul McCartney

I remember, when I was very young and going to the Fillmore East and watching three of my favorite bands in one…

— David Bryan

I started writing rather late in the game. I was fascinated about the story about how Bob Dylan, for 'Nashville Skyline,' wrote…

— Leon Russell

“A song about my life If there were to be a song ‘bout my life It would sting like a bee It…

— Aman Kumar

Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person…

— Tony Bennett

If my life were a song it'd be called 'Here I Am' because here I am - I mean, I'm Thia and…

— Thia Megia

Disco told audiences to dance, while punk told them to be anything but passive. The artists didn't mind; in fact, they encouraged…

— Elizabeth Flock

Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the…

— Frederic Chopin

People who buy my records don't go into music stores - music stores which are fading before our very eyes.

— Anne Murray

My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish…

— Etta James

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

— Joe Elliott

You've just got to believe that people will see and appreciate the value in the music and the artistry that we bring…

— Eric Nam

I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support…

— Alan Jackson

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

— Joan Jett

“the point of writing music and experiencing music isn’t to make people comfortable necessarily”

— Philip Glass

I am the kind of songwriter to where I don't have to have experienced it firsthand to write about it.

— Lainey Wilson

I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.

— Maynard James Keenan

I choose to do different songs for different reasons and I measure their success accordingly.

— Jonita Gandhi

I constantly write, record, and play music for public consumption and because it's therapeutic for me.

— Bret Michaels

O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang…

— William Morris

Hello drake this your favorite fan, I didnt like your song marvins room , I LOVEDDD ITTTTT !!!!!!!!! KEEP IT UP BRO !!

— Drake

The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles.

— Paulo Coelho

I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.

— Ringo Starr

My singing teacher said it would take three years before I could sing well enough to be accepted as a professional. They…

— Barbi Benton

My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that…

— Trent Reznor

“I tell you a secret about Chopin, piano is his best friend. More. He tells piano all his secrets.” - piano teacher…

— Anna Goldsworthy

To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe…

— Gwen Stefani

You can always hear me breathing during my verses, but that breathing becomes part of the music.

— Black Thought

I had to take a bit of a break and fast for a while, but then I found myself very, very hungry…

— Damien Rice

No, I dislike my guitar intensely,I can't even be bothered to smash the fucking thing. It doesn't deserve death.

— Richey Edwards