Quotes About Music

Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.

Songs are all poetry, and they don't make any sense.

I'm a lover of songs.

I'm not looking for career attention, for more success, more money. I'm just singing songs I chose because I love them.

It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with.

It's nice to play new songs, but it's nerve-wracking.

You choose to be happy, and in life we have as many good days as bad days. I try to find and record those songs that pull you through the bad days, and keep you believing that the good days are just around the corner.

My friends started making music, and then I started making covers because I was like, 'I don't have anything to write, but I like music.' So I would just cover Frank Ocean songs.

Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.

All the songs are good, but 'Press Your Number' was fixed to be my favorite song from the beginning.

Bob Marley was one of my favourite artists. He sang politically conscious lyrics, yet he sang love songs, too.

I had been writing songs for awhile - since I was 14 - and playing guitar, but I never really knew how to go about making an actual career.

I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

It's challenging to open for someone: You've got to prep the audience, get them in the mood, and get their attention if they don't know you. You're going to show them what songs you've got. You've got to leave your mark.

My songs would be nothing had it not been for my father. I follow his footsteps.

I grew up listening to Hindi and Marathi songs of Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosale.

When I was performing the songs on 'Kiss Land,' it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some parts were catchier than the others. There's maybe two choruses on all of 'Kiss Land.'

All my songs encapsulate a particular emotion.

Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.

This is the most fun thing in the world to me, making music. Sitting down, I can make songs and not leave the booth, ever, and I love it.

I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.

Some of my songs are turnt up, but that's just 'cause I have to make 'em like that so the clubs can play them.

The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.

Many pop songs seem to be more potent now than in their heyday.