Song Quotes · Page 291

I should have been a rock star. But I can't sing.

— Gia Carangi

I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.

— Miroslav Vitous

I have a very eclectic taste when it comes to music.

— Priyanka Chopra

Some songs, you just can't shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.

— Lemmy

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

— Bryan Adams

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

— Arnold Schoenberg

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

— Stephen Hawking

Making music, creating lyrics comes very naturally to me.

— Junaid Jamshed

As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any…

— Ben Lovett

Sometimes it feels like the lyrics to a song you're listening to, were written just for you

— Melchor Lim

I feel like music can affect you in so many ways. When you hear a song with a happy melody, it can…

— Kygo

I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud...…

— Arlo Guthrie

I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

— Sonny Rollins

Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.

— Anton Webern

The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that

— Jessica Hagedorn

You blow in this end of the trombone and sound comes out the other end and disrupts the cosmos.

— Roswell Rudd

The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's…

— PJ Harvey

“Patrick said that the problem was that since everything has happened already, it makes it hard to break new ground. Nobody can…

— Stephen Chbosky

I rather hate the whole digital world concerning music - nothing to touch, too many songs and no thread, no artwork etc.,…

— Lisa Germano

I give a lot of credit to 'Cherry Pie.' It has stood the test of time. It's a little catchy. It's a…

— Jani Lane

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. It's like…

— Susan Orlean

There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I do always the music before the lyrics. The story or an idea for the lyrics appears during the composing process normally,…

— Tarja Turunen

It's a little simpler than people think. It's not so much a Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse record as the two of us…

— Gnarls Barkley

Music has lost the stamp of originality.

— Kumar Sanu

It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

— Paddy Ashdown

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

— Jeffery Deaver

I write my songs because I've lived them.

— Katy Perry

The days of an artist receiving airplay as a new act are gone.

— Porter Wagoner

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.

— Tinie Tempah

When this song comes on I'm spending money.

— Wiz Khalifa

“Treat a sick man with the medicine and a sad man with the music.”

— Amit Kalantri

I would never put my songs in a commercial.

— Tom Petty

I used to try to write a song a day. I've been so busy lately.

— Dolly Parton

Heartbreak is the national anthem. We sing it proudly.

— Taylor Swift

I just wanted a style of music all my own.

— Bill Monroe

“This song is sweet. It is sweet. The heart dies of this sweetness.”

— Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Taylor's music is a hybrid with integrity

— Joel Selvin

We're going to Surf City, gonna have some fun. Now, two girls for every boy.

— Jan Brett

“Life is a series of music, live for the crescendo.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller