Song Quotes · Page 808

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

— Adam Rich

I hope that I do make music that can speak to anyone. I don't just want to play for a queer crowd.

— Jake Shears

To me, there are 3 parts of the album process: writing, recording, and my favorite part: getting to sing the songs with…

— Eric Hutchinson

Anytime you've got artists singing songs, doing grooves that they don't want to do, it's terrible.

— Wilson Pickett

I write songs to handle emotional pain. I guess what they say is true: with every heartache comes a great song. I…

— Matt Sorum

Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.

— Neil Innes

My dad encouraged anything I wanted to do, especially music. Actually he drove me around to places where I could play.

— Jason Aldean

“The greatest performances where when fingertips took away a very thin veil between people and uncovered the universe in its entirety.”

— Peter Høeg

What are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact…

— William Matthews

It's always hard for me to put the pieces together when listening to a finished album that I was a part of…

— Coy Bowles

I'll bet she's beautiful. That girl he talks about. And she's got everything that I have to live without. He's the reason…

— Myself

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song…

— Tom Petty

A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down…

— Bert Williams

On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did…

— Ryan Adams

People often comment on the feeling and soul in my music, and I think part of that comes from the honesty and…

— Jason Becker

I think it's absolutely possible to write a song and go somewhere where no one's been before, uncharted territory. In terms of…

— Richard Thompson

I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing…

— Kim Gordon

Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.

— Jon Pareles

Maybe my songs are my partner. How 'bout that? Yeah, the biggest relationship I have is with my songs.

— Diane Warren

I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.

— Bonnie McKee

Anyone knows that my music isn't just centered around sex. It's thought-evoking and feeling-evoking.

— Omarion

Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.

— Billy Joel

The only thing my mother would say to me about my music - I'd say, "Mom, listen to this," and she'd say,…

— Ornette Coleman

What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.

— Ernest Klein

Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don't have a major label, it's like, what are we gonna do next? You…

— Yolandi Visser

My mom who was deadset against anything country. I remember being a kid and my dad would play Conway Twitty and she…

— Uncle Kracker

“With a musical work, no matter how intellectual or dramatic its foundation, its test ever will be its value as pure music.”

— Gustav Kobbé

It's the way I like to work for these kinds of songs [like "Peace Trail"]. It was the right time of the…

— Neil Young

There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.

— Jimmy Page

“Dad said that the guy who can play guitar is going to be the life of the party. He’s confusing life with…

— David Sedaris

Theres nothing but spirit in music. Thats all it is. Yeah, theres a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter…

— Amos Lee

Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.

— Chingy

As far as bands doing that in a way where they think they're going to fight the government, the only people they're…

— John Petrucci

Even sometimes when I don't have a heartbreak I purposely get my heart broken so that I can make that song!

— Amaal Mallik

I see the Ricky Martin thing, and everything is like, just packaged for this moment. Where are they going to be 10…

— Ronnie Spector

I wanted to play drums and if I didn't play drums, I wouldn't make music and drums are the foundation for what…

— Lil Jon

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

— Marilyn vos Savant

I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

— Frank Iero

Yes, I co-wrote a song on the album called "Good Friend To Me" with Annie Roboff and Bekka Bramlett.

— Jessica Andrews

I ran into Axl [Rose] at a club some year ago and told him he's crazy, we all miss them, and he…

— Steven Tyler