Song Quotes · Page 166

I get nervous as hell when it's time for the songs to come out.

— Tionne Watkins

Every song has a heart, and I just go for that.

— Rhiannon Giddens

Sometimes it hurts to play a song back..

— Raghib Clitso

D'Angelo could sing the phonebook and it would sound good.

— Mark Ronson

The way to talk about something sad is to sing a funny song about it.

— Rory O'Malley

My favorite Taylor Swift song is between 'Blank Space' and 'Wildest Dreams.'

— Tee Grizzley

My parents were both high-school music teachers.

— Renee Fleming

“Every song deserves lyrics. Deserves a story to tell.”

— Courtney C. Stevens

Any music can be healing if it inspires, relaxes, encourages or creates enthusiasm for life in you.

— David Simon

In the back of my mind, when we were developing 'Next to Normal,' I always heard Alice Ripley.

— Tom Kitt

“That is why one of Rich's most powerful songs, and one he enjoyed singing in concert more than any other, is “Greed.”

— James Bryan Smith

If a song or group hits you at the right time in your life, it's everything. It's bigger than school or family…

— Aesop Rock

Even though Peter Criss is a pretty simple player, he played with great feel and made the music get up and go.

— Vinnie Paul

With 'Slave Ambient', I was writing things on top of loops. Now I really get the structure of the song down, but…

— Adam Granduciel

In my world, before I knew about Eddie Van Halen, I was playing piano, and at that point in my teenage life,…

— Lzzy Hale

To keep my mother from pinching me when I was talking, I joined up in the choir. But I never did a…

— James Ingram

I try to use other songs or bands as reference points - it seems like the easiest way to get across what…

— Steven Soderbergh

“Stray birds of the summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no…

— Tagore Rabindranath

I lie awake and feel your nearness I never wanted more than this I don't wanna run Beneath your tears I don't…

— Angel_eyes

My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me…

— Leonard Slatkin

Darwin speculated that “music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all…

— Oliver Sacks

I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was…

— Jay McShann

With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If…

— Noel Gallagher

You know, as kids were weren't jazz musicians or anything. But, the circle of friends and the neighborhood I lived in, we…

— John Petrucci

I'd rather get a hot dog or a doughnut than write a song.

— John Prine

When punk picked up black leather, I put it down.

— Suzi Quatro

The total person sings not just the vocal chords.

— E. M. Broner

This is not a love song I don't sing my mother tongue.

— Rammstein

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

— Mick Jagger

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

— David Crosby

I never liked the Beatles. I thought they were garbage.

— Lou Reed

As I've gotten older, my love for jazz has increased.

— Lauren Daigle

I want to try to find a way of being of service in this music space.

— Sam Ryder

Baybeee your a song you make me wanna roll my windows down, and cruise(:

— Anonymous

I like jazz in all the ways that it is played.

— Bill Ward

To compose is to remember music that has never been written.

— Robert Schumann

More than anything, I realize I've been blessed to make great music.

— Ciara

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

— John Fogerty

If there's anybody who knew how to play in a studio, it was Duane Allman.

— Butch Trucks

Without music the world will still turn, but it won't rock.

— Fran Drescher