Song Quotes · Page 270

I also plan to release a ballads collection.

— Vinnie Vincent

I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.

— Lee Konitz

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

My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.

— Paul Taylor

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

— Christine and the Queens

When her lips stop talking, her eyes start to chant the best song.

— MoulaY AbdallaH Boulaasair

Lyrics are no more important than the music. There's no point in forcing them on people.

— Elizabeth Fraser

I was just tapped on the shoulder from above and told to write these songs, as opposed to wanting to be a…

— Townes Van Zandt

Our music is constantly evolving and changing, and when this band put out an album we always try to offer something different.

— Chad Gilbert

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

— Anthony Hopkins

In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to…

— Daryl Hall

Joy to the world All the boys and girls now Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea Joy to you…

— Hoyt Axton

There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really…

— Anne Akiko Meyers

Only a world spinning out of control could inspire the music and vision we have now.

— Zacky Vengeance

I listened to a lot of The Stooges when I was writing "Oscillate," imagining our hero moving through his days naturally embodying…

— Travis Mathews

I think the good thing about the Internet is to give something away and to sell something else. Get a business model…

— Roger McGuinn

I usually get my lyrics when I let my mind wander, when you're not really awake, but not yet fully asleep. I…

— Brie Larson

Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it…

— Ian MacKaye

When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't…

— Jarryd James

Before any girl was making me her Man Crush Monday, I was a singer. Back before I had muscles, when I had…

— Luke James

Sometimes you might get inspired by something, write about it, then later that lyrics sounds better on another beat. That's happened a…

— Dizzee Rascal

When you work with Drake, you don't really work with Drake. You send him the song, he rap on it, then y'all…

— Zaytoven

If you want to know me, listen to my music.

— Goswami Kriyananda

I don't want my album coming out with a 'G' rating. Nobody would buy it.

— Donny Osmond

My favorite album would have to be something from The Beatles.

— Liam Gallagher

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.

— Sky Ferreira

I'm a laid-back guy, but my brain is always wrapped up in music.

— Dustin Lynch

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

— Carl Perkins

Singing was never something I even thought was in my wheelhouse.

— Benson Boone

If you think I'm a young boy singing these songs, dope. Run with that.

— Syd

I was nine when I bought my first guitar at a garage sale.

— Derek Trucks

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

— Dolly Parton

I hate bells and whistles. I like songs.

— Uncle Kracker

For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.

— Joe Cocker

Music is the surest way of reaching someone else's heart.

— Dudley Moore

Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart.

— Anonymous

I'm a pianist - I studied jazz piano in college.

— Cory Michael Smith

If I were in the Beatles, I'd be a good George Harrison.

— Noel Gallagher