Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julianne Hough

I am not dogging on non-melodic pop music because I love it, but I am saying that is why the timeless songs are still here. It's because of the melody. As far as what shouldn't be brought back, the high-waisted bikini bottoms.

Juliana Hatfield

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

Juliana Hatfield

Every song brings back memories, like I remember where I wrote all these songs. 'Universal Heartbeat' was my apartment in New York City. 'My Sister' was at my apartment in Boston. I remember places and I remember what I was thinking when I wrote it.

Juliana Hatfield

Although I'm a huge fan of Ben Kweller, I don't think I'd cover one of his songs, simply because there's just so much of my own stuff I wanna do.

Juliana Hatfield

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

Juliana Hatfield

When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually it goes in many directions within each song. They get really convoluted sometimes.

Juliana Hatfield

I don't believe songs that try to say everything in a simple slogan.

Juliana Hatfield

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.

Juelz Santana

I want to give the people a lot more, and be able to perform more than just my one single and all my old songs...

Juice Newton

Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.

Juicy J

I've got a lot of songs about having fun and partying, but it's a lot of work. Sometimes, I make 50 songs and pick out the best 10. I've been in the studio all day, all night, making the beat, writing the raps.

Juicy J

I just make the music, and people have the say. When I'm making songs, I never call them hits.

Juicy J

I'm a producer first, and I know music, so I can jump on any song, whether it's pop or urban, without changing me. Whatever I do, I'm gonna make it classic.

Juicy J

As a musician, you write and make music as you go. It's definitely in a great sequence. When you release songs, you think, "Let me make sure this goes with this so it's like a story."

Juicy J

Money is important, but I gotta like the song to play it. I won't just jump on anything because someone asked me to jump on it. I'm a musican. I love music. I gotta like it and feel comfortable with it.

Karl Barth

There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.

Karl Kraus

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

Karl Lagerfeld

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

Kacey Musgraves

I know not every song has to be a powerful message.

Kacey Musgraves

If I'm not writing about myself, then I sit down with people I really dig writing with and throw 'em out and see if something sticks. Their brain plus mine hopefully will make something interesting and cool and it will just snowball and we'll have a unique song by the end of it.

Kacey Musgraves

A great song will be great forever - it's timeless and classic in that way.

Kacey Musgraves

I'm a really huge John Prine fan; I love his clever conversationalist songs.

Kacey Musgraves

Different people have different ways of doing things. For me, becoming a songwriter first and falling in love with the Nashville songwriting community and the process of songs and getting better and putting more in what I wanted to say, was absolutely vital in me even wanting to be an artist.

Kacey Musgraves

Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop - nobody cares!

Kacey Musgraves

I think a great song appeals to older and younger people and it makes you think. It's also honest, and it also doesn't hurt if it's fun to sing along to.

K. D. Lang

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

K. D. Lang

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

K. D. Lang

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.

Julius Nyerere

When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the songs of the Wanyamwezi or of the Wahehe? Many of us have learnt to dance the rumba, or the cha cha, to rock and roll and to twist and even to dance the waltz and foxtrot. But how many of us can dance, or have even heard of the gombe sugu, the mangala, nyang umumi, kiduo, or lele mama?

Julius Caesar

You also, O son Brutus. [Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]

Joyce Kilmer

There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs that must be sung.

Pamela Anderson

Rock stars are like prophets. There's something about somebody who can get up on a stage and sing. And then when they write you songs, forget it, okay?

Ouida

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.