Song Quotes · Page 159

I was a 16-year-old little girl from this little town who just wanted to sing.

— Nicola Roberts

“they will surely sing of us, and it’s always summer in the songs.”

— Anonymous

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

— Rudolf Carnap

Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.

— Glen Campbell

Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.

— Miles Davis

I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs.

— Toni Braxton

I really and truly believe that music represents humanity’s soul.

— Yanni

I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.

— George Thorogood

I remember coming home from school - I couldn't wait to get to the piano so I could play and practice.

— McCoy Tyner

I love writing songs for other people, and it's an honor when someone records your songs.

— Ryan Hurd

I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.

— Jonathan Lethem

Rock bands don't really swing... a lot of rock is stiff. They don't understand the feel, the movement, you know, the jungle…

— Malcolm Young

By the time I was about 15, I was out playing gigs and knew I was going to be a musician.

— Kamasi Washington

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

— Taylor Hackford

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

— Gloria Naylor

Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from…

— Noel Gallagher

I just sort of grew up with music always in the background like a soundtrack. And it really hit me hard when…

— Paul Rodgers

Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you…

— Jodi Picoult

I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly getting rejected,…

— Rebecca Ferguson

As you're creating the album, you shouldn't be thinking about what the album is going to be at the end, you should…

— Calum Hood

“Taking five or ten or fifteen years to make an album, like Guns N’ Roses did, is just f**king ridiculous, end of…

— Ozzy Osbourne

I look fondly back on renegade days of my youth. Not the partying or anything, but it's still the spirit that I…

— Terry Richardson

If I do a song with a chorus and a verse, it takes me about 25 minutes. If I do a song…

— NLE Choppa

“I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s…

— Rachel Cohn

Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.

— Charlie Haden

Every time I make a new album, I get better and better.

— Rza

Some people have lives; some people have music.

— John Green

I don't sing songs on albums that I don't like.

— Anne Murray

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I'm at mentally.

— Kendrick Lamar

'Freebird' is an anthem, and 'Simple Man' is a very nice song.

— Gary Rossington

I love all music. I'm not specific. I don't just love one genre!

— Kim Petras

If you only get one song, it has to be Bullfrog Blues

— David Bromberg

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again...

— Charlotte Alington Barnard

The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.

— Stephen Malkmus

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

— Dolly Parton

I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat.

— Jack White

I cannot tell you how lucky I am: the songs that I sing, I like!

— Johnny Mathis

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

— Lord Byron

Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it.

— Fats Waller

Maybe This Time' is such a self-empowering song.

— Emily Hampshire