Song Quotes · Page 786

We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics…

— Libba Bray

New writers don't throw tantrums, they have time. I can make them work on one song for a week.

— Rajesh Roshan

I used sit in the back of the truck and make up these songs and play at the tailgates at rodeos.

— Ryan Bingham

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That's my friend, but every time I'm around her, I get shy.

— DJ Khaled

I find so many songwriters today are missing an element... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the…

— Rufus Wainwright

It's very difficult sometimes having bands, you know, when all the members aren't on the same page.

— Stanley Clarke

Does the song of the sea end at the shore or in the hearts of those who listen to it?

— Khalil

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

— Boz Scaggs

People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the…

— Tom Waits

Other memories stick, no matter how much you wish they wouldn’t. They’re like a song you hate but can’t ever get completely…

— Sara Zarr

And it's flights to LA, trips to Paris They could talk but we couldn't care less, girl woah, Let you shop in…

— Katie Grabil

Now bands have to sing live, now people watch who sings on the record, now people want to hear the real music…

— Rob Pilatus

I know where my heart is and I know that I can make people feel something with my music. I'm quite confident…

— Ane Brun

“Knowing the songs - and I'm still learning - lets one envision birds you can hear but can't see. And as always,…

— Carl Safina

If there's no deals being made rappers, what happens to the lawyers. They've got to close their firms, they can't make no…

— RZA

I am responsible for what happened to me but if I was to stay there it is kind of a constant reminder…

— Shane Bunting

I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are…

— Kamasi Washington

I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and…

— Tim McGraw

Whenever people hear that Kurt Cobain was a fan of my standup, it's like hearing Jimi Hendrix loved Buddy Hackett or something.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound.

— Michael Gira

The new age disc jockeys and program directors have accepted me as a new age artist, along with Shadowfax and the rest,…

— Barbi Benton

“The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which…

— Khalil Gibran

It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, 'You know, you really are a…

— David Cassidy

I was really into the music of Cream after I finished composing the music for 'BTTB.'

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

When I create lyrics, I just go off of energy. Sometimes I write down my lyrics on my phone and most times…

— Jadakiss

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to…

— Juliana Hatfield

Occasionally and all-too-infrequently a song comes along that jolts you and you prick up your ears.

— Russell Mael

There are reasons that bands and musicians make demos and outtakes - because they are not good enough to make the record.…

— Mike Patton

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I…

— Steven Wilson

Music has been my outlet, my gift to all of the lovers in this world. Through it - my music, I know…

— Michael Jackson

“We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead.”

— Joan Oliver Goldsmith

I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, riding in the car with my grandpa, and I was just intrigued by it.

— Brett Eldredge

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

— Manuel Puig

It sort of depends on the song. Some of them are pretty easy to write, and others take a while. I do…

— Iron & Wine

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners…

— Norman Granz

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

— Christina Aguilera

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

— David Sanborn

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

— David Gilmour

If I sing it, then I wrote it, even if I didnt sing it, write the lyric, make a millie, let another…

— Ne-yo