Song Quotes · Page 286

I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up

— Barry Gibb

“Songs can be very expressive, Lobsang. You can sing your homesickness.”

— Terry Pratchett

The album 'Party Music' is a beautiful album, and people need to hear it.

— Boots Riley

Keep listening to music, it gets you through everything. I promise.

— Mitch Lucker

I don't think any artist really knows why a song gets popular.

— Chick Corea

I would like to do songs that are remembered.

— Kashmira Shah

Soundgarden are kind of the masters of writing songs that aren't pop cliches.

— Mike McCready

Phoenix was a tougher record, a little more commercially accessible record.

— Dan Fogelberg

We grew up with a different gauge on what pop is. Pop for us was INXS and John Farnham.

— Jessica Origliasso

It kind of renews my faith in humankind that there's long attention spans left out there that can listen to a 12-minute…

— Danny Carey

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was…

— Jamie Foxx

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

— Dave Grohl

“She danced so curving, lissom, like the laughter of the song. She sent resounding into spaace and down the ages long.”

— Tui Allen

Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private.

— John Nettles

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

— Terri Clark

When I was a child, I had wax in my ears. Dad didn't take me to the doctor, he used me as…

— Les Dawson

If I'm honest, I thought Westlife would keep going for longer than it did - we all did - but it sort…

— Shane Filan

I don't think they like the idea that the people who are buying the record get to choose what goes out, because…

— John Otway

With millions of people creating songs and uploading them to the web internationally, most artists know they need to dismantle the monetary…

— Josh Garrels

The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to…

— Ansel Adams

We thought of a boring name, Sparks, and put a boring photo of us on the front of the second album, 'A…

— Russell Mael

I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it…

— Bob Dylan

In the Led Zeppelin shows of the Sixties and Seventies, it was the same numbers every night, but they were constantly in…

— Jimmy Page

When George [Harrison] died the guards at Buckingham Palace played a medley of George's songs during the changing of the guard; that…

— Lemmy Kilmister

To have John Mellencamp compliment my songwriting? That was unreal.

— Darius Rucker

I don't like listening to music that isn't real.

— Joss Stone

“Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun”

— Lauren Myracle

My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.

— Keith Thibodeaux

You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it.

— Conor Oberst

Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.

— Andrew Bird

The heart jungle drum beat finds its voice in love and matchsticks.

— Isabel Yosito

I write a song for me and I sing a song for me - no one else.

— Hank Williams III

We get accused of inauthenticity because we play the instruments we play.

— Winston Marshall

The most stupendous miracle in all music.

— Johann Sebastian Bach

The TLC sound! That's what's so awesome - we have our own sound.

— Tionne Watkins

I started writing music in a French way: more focused on lyrics than melody.

— Benjamin Clementine

I think guitar is the best thing in the world.

— Shaun White

I'm not afraid to have my music digestible by different ages.

— Jon Bellion

I'm not interested in being the producer of somebody else's song.

— Alan Menken

I can only sing songs my way. I don't know any other way.

— Billie Holiday