Song Quotes · Page 170

My goal was to become a 'good singer' rather than a 'different singer.'

— Rose

The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.

— Pat Metheny

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape

— Shania Twain

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

— John Milton

I must say I've always composed music from the point of view of the performers.

— Walter Piston

I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way.

— Kylie Minogue

“You play me with your jazz & leave me with the blues.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

When words fail to write the feelings, Music can make you to realise it

— Anonymous

When you listen to music through Spotify, you don't own the song, even though you might be able to listen to it…

— Sarah Jeong

Some of the songs are so crazy, the words are so crazy... it's hard to believe I was so crazy.

— Juliana Hatfield

“Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one, Sings this to thee: 'thou single wilt prove none.”

— William Shakespeare

Music can be just one-sided if you hear it, but if you see it with a visual and an image, it opens…

— Jennie

Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.

— Jack Antonoff

When I bring my music to a live audience, I know right away whether it is being appreciated or not.

— Badshah

“But his singing was unconscious and irrepressible - an expression of his native exuberance, the dreamy, buoyant soundtrack running through his head.”

— Jennifer Haigh

I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

— Mark Heard

“With a feeling of despondency so intense that it was almost pleasurable, he got out his guitar. So this was to be…

— Marina Lewycka

I started playing music when I was really young. I didn't start off on guitar because I couldn't fit my hands around…

— Patrick Stump

I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is…

— Charles R. Swindoll

There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live…

— Burton Cummings

“Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which…

— Lord Dunsany

Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to…

— Darius Rucker

A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You've got to…

— Nick Hornby

I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still have a…

— John Congleton

Feeling like Rap God when you sing a fast verse from a song successfully.

— Anonymous

I liked singing and just took a chance with it.

— Melanie Martinez

“You're everything I write about in my songs, but can never have.”

— Abbi Glines

Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there.

— Christina Milian

You never know how dirty a songs lyrics are until you hear a child singing them

— Aly Johnson

WHEN MUSIC COMES TO MIND ALL I NEED IS AS INSPIRATION

— Shar-rae

To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening.

— Bakermat

The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.

— Billy Higgins

There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.

— Isaac Hanson

Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean, it's like a steam locomotive.

— Joe Perry

I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life.

— Lenny Kravitz

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

— Elliott Smith

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

— Caroline Corr

If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge.

— Damon Albarn

“Music, rhythm, rigadoon, without end, for no reason.”

— Julia Kristeva

I always liked the intensity of the recording.

— Chris Bailey