Song Quotes · Page 788

If all the elements are in place, you should get 80 percent of what a song has to offer no matter how…

— James Blake

Frank [Zappa] was not a big fan of having lyrics, but sometimes he had things to say that lent themselves to lyrics.

— Gail Zappa

Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in…

— Kevin Bacon

The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

— Ritchie Blackmore

Mem'ry All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days Life was beautiful then.

— Trevor Nunn

A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words,…

— Taylor Swift

Growing up, all I cared about in a song, before I really listened to lyrics, was that beat.

— Walker Hayes

I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument -…

— Mel Torme

Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people,…

— Ted Turner

Writing the songs at the cabin, I couldn't help but be drawn to the boom-chicka rhythms as much as I tried to…

— Dale Watson

When I was about 9, my brother, who's six years older than me, started getting guitar lessons, and I wouldn't say that…

— Lewis Capaldi

Once you've been on tour six, seven years, you get an idea of what works and what doesn't work universally. There will…

— Lupe Fiasco

“What is there in music that it should so stir our deeps? We are all ordinarily in a state of desperation; such…

— Henry David Thoreau

And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native…

— Tim Wise

I have a really weird relationship with myself where I'll say, "Do it, do it!" and then, "I don't want to do…

— Grimes

I just can't bring myself to see Sabbath without Bill Ward, because he was such an integral part of that band.

— Joey Jordison

I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll pull them tight to…

— Brandi Carlile

I was short and I had a really high voice, and now my voice is low and I'm tall.

— Greyson Chance

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

— Robert Glasper

I was listening 'Plastic Ono Band,' the John Lennon album a lot, and that might have had some inspiration on me.

— Rostam Batmanglij

There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to…

— Duke Ellington

“Dude: What do Pink Floyd and Dale Earnhardt have in common? Me: The wall was their last hit.”

— Jason Myers

If I was 13 years old and Kurt Cobain tweeted me some advice or even just said hi, my whole world would…

— Mark Foster

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes…

— Mick Jagger

I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really…

— Mike Shinoda

There are two kinds of music: good music and bad music. Both are and will continue to co-exist.

— Shankar Mahadevan

I will say this: I've always sort of had maybe an inflated sense of my ability to sequence songs in a narrative…

— Rodney Crowell

Its funny how we remember lyrics to like so many songs, but can't remember to study for a test. that's me!

— Anonymous

That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it's a happy song and I can still feel sad in…

— Shane McAnally

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

— Aldo Leopold

Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness.

— Sri Chinmoy

I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in…

— Dick Dale

I'd like to do an anthology. Maybe a collection of songs set in my world, or based on my world. I think…

— Patrick Rothfuss

What I liked about grunge was the realness. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't glamorous.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

Listening to my records, you feel one way about it when you hear it, but reading my words - that makes us…

— Scarface

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because…

— David Guetta

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.

— Michael Stipe

“Music is undescribable, and no words can be said to understand it. The only way to understand it is to hear it.”

— Allyson McClain

The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice…

— Black Elk