Song Quotes · Page 814

Because of acting I've gotten to travel and meet so many amazing people, and they inspire new songs.

— Emily Kinney

With the jam bands I've seen, it's about music, and it's about theory, and it's about making everyone feel better with music.

— Butch Trucks

The best thing that can happen is that a song you've written will live in the world so people can hear it.

— Skylar Grey

When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached.

— Keri Hilson

I took one piano lesson and hated it and then didn't take any piano lessons until I was 18.

— Rostam Batmanglij

I want to find out more about how the Backstreet Boys get their incredible sound. I've got both their albums and I…

— Tom Jones

I grew up playing the piano, but you know, as a rebellious child, I convinced myself that I hated it.

— Aimee Osbourne

When I first started making music, for about the first 10 years, I was always the young kid. Everyone referred to me…

— Justin Broadrick

If I had to pick one guitar to take to a desert island, I'd pick my '67 Rickenbacker 12-string, which I bought…

— Mike Campbell

By the time I was ten or eleven, I had a song-book and I was writing everything down. It used to just…

— Ella Henderson

The music and the philosophy feed off of one another on a subconscious level, though I've never really integrated my academic teaching…

— Steve Weinstein

“For you, a thousand times over." "Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors." "...attention shifted…

— Khalid Hosseini

I'm a musician, so for the most part I've always thought that the musicians were equally as inspiring to listen to -…

— Vince Gill

When I was a kid in the late '60s and early '70s, my parents and their friends would play the records of…

— Mark Lanegan

“My soul would sing of metamorphoses. But since, o gods, you were the source of these bodies becoming other bodies, breathe your…

— Ovid

I've always been making stuff. I had a very free upbringing, and very encouraging parents. I just found that it was a…

— Ida Maria

“Now I end my death song. I give my farewell to mountain and sky. It has been good to be alive.”

— Tad Williams

There is a very thin line that differentiates and gives a song its distinct flavour.

— Mani Sharma

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

— Justin Townes Earle

That's been a pretty interesting thing, visiting schools and performing and doing songwriting talks and stuff.

— Declan McKenna

I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I'm not young, so I want to make the…

— Michael Gira

I think people should consume their music any way they want. If it's more practical for them to listen to it on…

— Tristan Perich

I feel like everybody's life literally has a soundtrack because we love music so much, and there are so many songs that…

— Robert Glasper

The royalties from downloading are bad enough but the royalties from streaming are non-existent.

— Paul Young

I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

— Nick Cave

I don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs…

— Kelli O'Hara

I appreciate people who sway to the beat of their own tambourine, like Iris Apfel and Helena Bonham Carter.

— Hong Chau

All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.

— Peter Warlock

People are like, 'Well, she doesn't know the Sex Pistols.' Why would I know that stuff? Look how young I am. That…

— Avril Lavigne

I think that the best music and the music that people relate to the most is the honest music that people feel…

— Morgan Wallen

I don't even want a song to ramp up the drama, you know? I want music to be there only when it…

— Ramy Youssef

“a record player needle had slipped into the groove in the vinyl and I couldn't get it out again.”

— Leslie McAdam

I've been very happy to see some of the success that I've had along the way in opening the eyes of people,…

— Johnny Mathis

My grandmother really wanted to see me become a singer, but she passed away before I became one.

— Jeongyeon

I think... people are inspired by our music, and that's cool. We all borrow each other's music.

— Hope Sandoval

Band sleeping with sirens song roger rabbit… Nobody's gonna feel your pain When all is done And it's time for you to…

— Sleeping With Sirens

Social media can sometimes influence the charts, but I think that only great music makes it to the top. The good songs…

— Dua Lipa

When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me 'simian.' I had to look that up at the time.

— Ian Brown

I'm a reader, so when I go to bookstores I need (stuff) that's going to help me. There a big emptiness there…

— Nas

As Juan Gabriel, music is my religion, and mariachi is my devotion. And my songs are my prayers.

— Juan Gabriel