Song Quotes · Page 805

I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.

— Eric Whitacre

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

— Joe Elliott

And I said, 'Why not? It's the truth! Why can't I say I'm a Beatles fan?' I used to get criticized for…

— Buck Owens

I was very lucky - how many people can say they did a song with John Barnes and played football with him?

— Big Narstie

I knew The Beatles before because we did our first television with them, 'Thank Your Lucky Stars.'

— Dave Clark

“music is rhthym and a melody,without music we will have no joy and beats because our heart beats when there is music”

— Music is my life

Some of the songs have a tinge more pop this time. I wanted to go into different worlds.

— Heather Headley

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

— Chuck Mangione

I have faith in the idea that there will be another hit, but I'm also totally happy if there's not, because I…

— Gnash

One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato." That's what he said.…

— Michael Jackson

I may have run out of songs to sing. I may have run out of words to say. All that I want…

— Side A

I never thought I would sing professionally, but it so happened that I made Babul hear a Bengali song I had sung…

— Hema Malini

Christianity only hopes. It has hung its harp on the willows, and cannot sing a song in a strange land. It has…

— Henry David Thoreau

I don't kind of want to be known as a one-trick pony who just does the adult-alternative song once a year that…

— Ed Sheeran

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the…

— Billy Joel

I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where…

— Nina Simone

We went on to become the No. 1 band in the country for three or four years. And that was probably the…

— Butch Trucks

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a…

— Debbie Gibson

'Honey' was the first song I wrote where I was really enjoying myself again after questioning the idea of being an artist.

— Robyn

It takes a long time to write 10 good songs. Sometimes you have to write 30 to get 10 good ones.

— Eddie Rabbitt

We dont want the lyrics of our songs to necessarily stand out but we want them to sound really natural and fit…

— The Wanted

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

— Kurt Elling

I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world.

— John Petrucci

Some songs are so touching to the heart it makes you think that it was made for you. Also some are so…

— Anonymous

There's something about rhythm and bass sections generally, how the bass and drums interact, that's basically the soul of any song.

— Shura

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go…

— Emmylou Harris

If you just focus on making singles, you lose the personality of the record. Because everything is not meant to go to…

— Tracy Lawrence

Baby it's you. You're the one I love. You're the one I need. You're the only one I see.

— Anonymous

I get so into playing the bass. The only time I ever feel the same way is when I'm having sex; it's…

— Melissa Auf der Maur

It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even…

— Jimmy Chamberlin

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.

— Conor Oberst

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

“But Blake infused hope in his music. Love was the only song he knew how to play.”

— Debra Anastasia

I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful…

— William Arthur Ward

In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it.

— Debbie Harry

To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact…

— Ryan Adams

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

— Annie Lennox

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

— Herbie Hancock

I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of…

— Lenny Kravitz

I've always wanted to do a tune with The Prodigy because I'm such a massive fan.

— Tulisa