Max Martin Quotes

The only song I can sing is 'Lady in Red' so that must tell you how great it must have been.

I am very good at remembering music and am absolutely certain that I never heard 'Taurus' until 2014.

Some songs, you just can't shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.

It confirms for me that we did something on Days that meant something. We had our ups and downs, but Missy and I and some of the other actors, created something that was really memorable.

American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.

I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison's 'Moondance.'

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.

If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.

Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.

A legacy for me is being a piece of the soundtrack of someone's life.

There's nothing that can lock a memory in your mind more distinctly than with a piece of music. It's so easy to remember something so vividly and so perfectly when you score it to something.

We still have the love for music; it will forever be in my heart.

I'm just looking for that one song that I know everybody's going to be like, 'Damn, that's a good song.'

There's something about pop songs that are remembered throughout time.

I realize that I've had Ian Van Dahl: 'Castles in the Sky,' the Ibiza jam, periodically stuck in my head for years, like years of my life. Every now and then 'Castles in the Sky' will just happen. Maybe that's some sort of indication that it's actually my favorite song of all time.

The great thing about 'Coco' is that for anybody who hears it, it just sticks.

I believe very strongly in having melodic hooks, whether they're short or intricate, that you really remember in a movie.

One way I judge music is whether it compels me to listen to it.

I think when a lot of people hear my father's music they are immediately drawn in.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

A popular song is one that makes us all think we can sing.

A good song stays in your head because it's catchy, a great song stays because it means something to you.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

Sometimes friends do go from us-it will happen more and more as you grow up, Chugg. But if you really love your friends, they're never really gone. Somewhere they're watching over you and they're always there inside your heart. -Martin