Song Quotes · Page 784

I'm not a fitness model; I'm just a singer. If people focus on that, that's what I care about.

— Alessia Cara

I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

— Marianne Faithfull

My music is about all these things that happen to you while growing up in search for some kind of truth.

— MO

Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't…

— Caroline Polachek

When punk came along, it made perfect sense to me. I found it melodic. The Clash, Buzzcocks.

— Fred Armisen

Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.

— Daniel Ek

I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.

— Kelly Rowland

I'm just growing so quickly, so my songs are quickly changing on me. But it's fine. I love them for what they…

— Shawn Mendes

“Recent breakthroughs in the field of neuro-science have shown that playing the piano is good for your brain. Dr. Gottfried Schlaug of…

— Stuart Isacoff

Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy…

— Christian McBride

“‎God is boundless, and so is never a boundary: God's music possesses the richness of every transition, interval, measure, variation - all…

— David Hart

When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil…

— Lou Reed

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place…

— Justin Sane

I would sing only when I was very much alone. So, I would sing a lot, but I was not comfortable doing…

— Monica Barbaro

Intellectuals and creative people, once they start talking about God they get put into this other category: 'I don't go to people's…

— David Berman

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that…

— Sarah McLachlan

[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can…

— Stewart Copeland

I always thought it was important for my lyrics to come from a really honest place.

— Avey Tare

You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am…

— Britt Daniel

When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens

— Barry Gibb

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to…

— Richard Wagner

Id love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

— Candy Crowley

My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same…

— Joshua Mohr

The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.

— Compay Segundo

When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens…

— Burton Cummings

I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in

— Geezer Butler

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not…

— Hanns Eisler

I wish I could show my singing voice to the world, then would they hear my vain in my melody?

— Ashley Rashid

I wasn't looking at it like, 'I'm singing for AC/DC.' I was looking at it like, 'Y'know, if I can, and if…

— Axl Rose

Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them

— John Lennon

It's kind of a twisted cycle, but I think that there is less money in real music these days.

— Lalah Hathaway

I liked the idea of writing a song saying I'm happy with who I am, and I don't mind if people think…

— Marc Almond

Music is a big gift opportunity.We have to have our best offers disposed to capitalize on that.

— Tom Corson

I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another…

— Adam Jones

I felt this pressure to just be the singer in my family or the musician in my family. But once I had…

— Domino Kirke

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that…

— Jesse Harris

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

But you know, I really like to present the songs on an album as a story, as something thematic, rather than something…

— Pegi Young

I like to write my own songs rather than merely singing what has been handed over to you.

— Shibani Dandekar

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

— Stephen Stills