Song Quotes · Page 789

Sometimes it takes a tragedy to bring people together, Other times it just takes music.

— Pink

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or…

— Sinead O'Connor

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.

— Perry Farrell

…the songs are universal enough that in ten years time they should still hold up quite well.

— Greg Graffin

I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

— Lupe Fiasco

I feel like all my songs slept-on. I'm not complainin', but I just wanna drop more heat.

— Lil Tjay

I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

— Bobby Sherman

Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye.

— Wynton Marsalis

From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency…

— Mark Helprin

I have a feeling that the kids are slowly returning to the roots, with this new Metal trend. I can really feel…

— Yenz Leonhardt

In music industry they always want you to write something like the one that was popular. And that's something you kind of…

— Benji Madden

I never write a song before I get the track because I just feel that I have to make a marriage with…

— Freddie Gibbs

Like as a fan of music, I feel like everything that I listen to influences my writing, whether it's a song where…

— Gracie Abrams

You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can…

— Randy Bachman

The business of making music is changing so radically because of the Internet. It's become a lot more democratic in one respect,…

— John Rzeznik

In a studio situation, I'm able to dig deep and come up with stuff that all the guys think fits the vibe…

— Synyster Gates

Life is so mundane, isn't it? It's great to hear a guitarist getting into it and the rhythmic section blasting, even if…

— Paul Rodgers

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

— Dar Williams

It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus.

— Paul Weller

I think when you look back at the different eras in jazz, what leads from one to another is never a melodic…

— Stefon Harris

“For songs are the heart of our memory and they let us live the search for meaning in our lives again and…

— Judy Collins

They're very different things, a poem and a song, you wouldn't think they would be, but they are.

— John Cooper Clarke

To be able to do a song with Kanye West and then a video with Hype Williams who directed the video, that's…

— Paul Wall

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

— Neil Diamond

I really enjoy going out with my jazz group. That's something that I don't ever want to stop doing.

— Dianne Reeves

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.

— Kesha

I'm really just concentrating on making good music, whether it's using a sample or doing an original track.

— Rahki

There's too many favorite songs, so I'll just say right now my favorite song of all time is 'Poison' by Bert Jansch.

— Kurt Vile

I achieved something specially different with Love To Love You Baby and I Feel Love. These songs will endure.

— Giorgio Moroder

And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.

— Bobby Sherman

“Q: What songs do Santa’s gnomes sing to him when he comes home freezing on Christmas night? A: Freeze a jolly good…

— Uncle Amon

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

— Mika

When I'm writing, I try to think about what would make a song better before worrying about personal opinions.

— Phoebe Bridgers

I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with…

— Mose Allison

My original goal was to get into the Top 100. I listened to every song in the Top 100 every day. I…

— Porter Robinson

I sit a lot with my lyrics - I don't write just to write or put a line in just to have…

— Snoh Aalegra

I'm with you once more under the stars and down by the shore an orchestra's playing and even the palms seem to…

— Beegie Adair

People would think I wouldn't like Noel Coward. I think he was the original punk in a lot of ways. You know.…

— Kathy Burke

Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear…

— John Milton

We don't really talk about music that much, to be honest with you. It's not some I usually - I can't really…

— Sean Booth