Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ouida

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

Otto von Bismarck

This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.

O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

My whole thing was this was to immortalize my family's name. To get the people who never would have appreciated him to appreciate him, there's nothing a son could want more.

Oscar Isaac

If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song

Kathryn Stockett

The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of being rejected and put your manuscript—or painting, song, voice, dance moves, [insert passion here]—in the coffin that is your bedside drawer and close it for good. I guarantee you that it won’t take you anywhere. Or you could do what this writer did: Give in to your obsession instead.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.

Kanye West

In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

Kanye West

Both this song ['Black Skinhead'], 'I Am a God' and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn't let me into his first Saint Laurent show.

Kanye West

George Bush doesn't care about black people... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food... they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us.