Top 40 Hooks Quotes

I was sick of waiting for people to jump on hooks for songs I produced. So I tried singing myself, and I haven’t looked back.

Pop is a little bit theatrical. That’s the whole vibe. That’s the point – is that it’s great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it’s a presentation. There’s a showmanship about it. And that’s why I wanted to be a pop star.

Most hiring managers interview a lot of people. So many that they generally have to go back to their notes to remember candidates – the exception being candidates with a strong hook. Sometimes these hooks are how people dress or their personality, but the best hook is a strong story that’s work-related.

Formerly known as The Muslims, The Soft Pack brings a lot of swagger to its garage-rock sound. There’s a load of gimmick-free confidence in the band’s hooks, as its distorted guitars and driving drums demonstrate that less can be more.

When you’re sitting ringside, there’s a primal thing there that hooks into violence and excitement. It’s just two guys going at it in the ring – there’s no team, no one to pass the ball to – and there’s a certain excitement to that.

I love countermelodies, I love hooks and melodies that stick in your head. If I could put 20 melodies in a song and they would all work together, I would.

I didn’t want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.

I don’t think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.

Once they get their hooks into you, you’re a dead pigeon.

I’m not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer – with some rock, and song hooks.

I did a series in 2002 called ‘Jungle Hooks.’ We did a show on the arapaima fish, which is thought to be the largest freshwater fish in the world.

If you’re writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you’d better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.

Anderson Silva I think is extraordinarily talented, but I don’t think his submission game is great. We’ve seen him get caught in heel hooks.

From a UX standpoint, the toughest battle is how to make a platform that’s really open so kids can use it but has sort of hooks and constraints so it’s actually driving towards revealing parts of the world through science or through mathematics.

You’ve got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.

I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it’s poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

My raps be crazy, and my hooks are nasty.

I’m used to producing all of my projects, doing all the beats, and writing all the hooks.

That’s the best way to feed the human mind. That’s how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.

Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time.

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

The hooks didn’t roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.

If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes.

I like old-school, riff-driven, hard rock music with big hooks!

With me having this raspy voice, people always asked when I was going to sing on a song. When I was going at it with 50, people were saying I don’t sing on my own hooks. That always stuck in my head and people always told me I had to use my own voice not just to rap.

I don’t know what it is really… I think I’m just good with hooks.

I don’t pick up a project based on its success ratio. If it instinctively hooks me, then it hooks me.

I like hooks and choruses, things people can sing to.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

For our third album, ‘Love Frequency,’ we’ve gone back to our old style. The album is full of songs that people can sing along to. They’re songs full of hooks.

I’d call my music rock but with pop hooks.

We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.

My stupid ambition is to make a film that’s not like any other – one that has its own kind of logic and hooks viewers without making them think too much. It’s a film I’d love to see, one in which after 10 minutes the audience isn’t able to predict the whole thing.

What we’re most known for is the catchy choruses and the big hooks.

Diphthongs are indicated by combinations of hooks and circles.

‘Jersey Shore’ is one of the best shows of all time. They had so many hooks.

Most of the time I write visually. I get a visual of me in the audience watching the concert. I usually come up with the hooks first. Like with ‘Old School.’

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we’ll do it the other way.

I love hooks, but getting radio airplay has never been a concern to me while I’m writing. That would be a very stifling and imprisoning way of writing music.

The more I move on stage, the more people are just drawn to the movement. The way that I walk and my gait – it’s very eye catching. And the way my hand hooks and moves on its own – it’s almost hypnotic.