Song Quotes · Page 160

I'm a huge fan of Ace of Base. 'The Sign?' I love that song.

— Kay Cannon

When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.

— Tommy Shaw

I don't think I have the best voice ever.

— Anitta

Ana you showed me this song and now when ever I hear it I think of you :)

— James

I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.

— Andrea Bocelli

I want to be someone making music/with my coming.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Usually the things that happen in my life are an easy trigger for songwriting.

— Coeur de pirate

My music is a gift from God that saved my life.

— August Alsina

The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.

— Don Herold

'Immortalized' is hopefully what music does for everyone in terms of emotions, in terms of experiences, in terms of being people who…

— David Draiman

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

— John McLaughlin

I always bring my little ukelele along in my shopping bag which my dear, sweet father bought me. After all, you just…

— Tiny Tim

All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.

— Hans Zimmer

“...singing ballads whose words had never known paper but lived only on the rasping edge of their own voices.”

— Laini Taylor

I always did go against the singer-songwriter form. I think I've always had a lot of storytelling songs.

— Jill Sobule

The thing about music is that it gives voice and names to anguish and also addresses how to comfort it.

— Julien Baker

If somebody says, 'Well, what are your favorite composers?' really, what they are saying is, 'What are your favorite composers apart from…

— Max Richter

Keep a cool head and a warm heart. A mantra that became a song, inspired by the wise words of Maharishi Mahesh…

— Mike Love

My mom was a piano teacher and I grew up taking voice lessons since I was 9. I started off writing melodies…

— Sophie Thatcher

In Othello, Othello kills Desdemona, but no one reads that play as a model for their own behavior. In Lou Reed's case,…

— Anthony DeCurtis

Grunge gave me a sense of identity, and I remember really associating with 'Silverchair,' who were these chilled-out Australian teenagers. The fact…

— Kevin Parker

We live in a time where everybody has an opinion and everyone's opinion can be featured somewhere, whether it's an online column…

— Charlie Benante

One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to…

— Tablo

I am still very proud of that concert. In America, the (musicians') connection with the conductor is as with management - it…

— Neeme Jarvi

I've always found it pretty difficult to write a happy song.

— Aaron Bruno

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!

— Birdy

Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.

— Tony Iommi

I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

— Abel Korzeniowski

I love my fans, I love my music - I have no reason to retire.

— LL Cool J

The last reunion was a bit of a rushed job, we had to do a gig and documentary.

— Brian Harvey

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.

— Joshua Bell

We're not really band guys. We're shlumpy guys. We don't look like rock stars.

— Kyle Gass

I try to give the soft pop sound a natural relaxed feeling.

— B. J. Thomas

Anybody can be a star with the right song.

— Brad Paisley

French horn can be very epic, and at the same time, very dark and moving.

— Alexandre Desplat

That one part of the song that makes you push yourself harder!

— Anonymous

I was born singing. Most babies cry, I sang an aria.

— Gail Carson Levine

I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.

— Gustav Mahler

I know that a song is working when I can properly dance on it.

— Christine and the Queens