Song Quotes - page 94

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song. (Melissa Etheridge)
Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song. View quote
Melissa Etheridge
My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song. View quote
Chris Cornell
Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with? View quote
Eddie Van Halen
David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music. View quote
Eddie Van Halen
If you emphasize one part of the song, it trivializes the rest of the music. View quote
Jack White
Well, as a songwriter, it's really dangerous to use the word love in a song. It's a word that has been used in songs so many millions of times before, and it's the most popular topic to ever write about. View quote
Jack White
Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity. View quote
Van Morrison
Even at the time, I realised this couldn't be right, that this interpretation didn't fit with the rest of the lyrics. But that wasn't an issue with me. The song was about what I said, and I used to listen to it again and again, on my own, whenever I got the chance. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's the blues. You hear a rock n' roll song. That's the blues. Somebody playing a guitar solo? They're playing the blues. View quote
Wynton Marsalis
From every place below the skies The grateful song, the fervent prayer,- The incense of the heart, -may rise To heaven, and find acceptance there. (John Pierpont)
If I had to choose a song to listen to before I died, it would be Simone singing Começar de novo. View quote
Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira
Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be? View quote
Michael Jackson
I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that. View quote
Shaun White
No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song. View quote
Ezra Koenig
I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh, get that guy to sing the hook on that guy's song,' and then that's all it is. It's a cool idea that sounds good on paper. View quote
Ezra Koenig
There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful. View quote
Sue Monk Kidd
My mother used to say that my tones are all crooked: it's like hearing a song sung out of tune. View quote
Madeleine Thien
I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another. View quote
Damien Hirst
You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman. View quote
Neil Diamond
I couldn't resist. I went over and joined in, and we just sang the song together, ... They had no idea that I had written it, or who I was. I was just some weird guy who wanted to join in on the singing. (Neil Diamond)
A song is only as strong as its foundation, and when it comes so naturally in any setting, those are the songs that will hopefully outlive you, maybe even outlive the next generation of You. View quote
Corey Taylor
When I'm working on a Slipknot song, it's like a switch flips in my head. I can go there easily - it doesn't take a lot of soul searching - and it's a dark, almost sinister place. Stone Sour is more the way I've always written. It's a different tone. View quote
Corey Taylor
As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too. View quote
Richie Sambora
I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off. View quote
Richie Sambora