Song Quotes · Page 353

“I’ve heard people using your songs as prayer, begging god in falsetto.”

— Warsan Shire

Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.

— Amy Ray

I don't use conventional voices for my compositions.

— Himesh Reshammiya

Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.

— Frank Zappa

We're a bar band, so we know all the bar songs.

— David Bryan

What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."

— Kurt Vonnegut

Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.

— Emily Dickinson

Music: what life, what living itself sounds like.

— Jandy Nelson

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of…

— Steve Lacy

The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters.

— Peter Yarrow

I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!

— Kirk Hammett

I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]

— Leona Lewis

“Music is not just the black dots on the white paper -- it's what happens when those black dots go into your…

— Phil Smith

One of the reasons that the Ramones were so unique and original was that they were four original, unique people.

— Tommy Ramone

I've realised that if it is to remain relevant, contemporary music needs to change.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

“I felt like a pianist who'd been forced to play on a few white keys in the middle, finally allowed to run…

— Ann Brashares

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and…

— Stephen Sondheim

I love the lower ranges of my new voice. I really enjoy that. It's a challenge, and I accept the challenge. I…

— Joan Baez

Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you…

— Olly Murs

I think pain is the best feeling for song writing. You can write good happy songs, but I think the kind of…

— Adam Levine

To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and…

— Amy Grant

I definitely always wanted to be a singer and a performer. I think I got it from my parents because my dad's…

— Perrie Edwards

Meditate, oft. Separate thyself for a season from the cares of the world. Get close to nature and learn from the lowliest…

— Edgar Cayce

There's no reason anybody should be reading too much into 'Thrift Shop.' I just have because I have a 10-year-old and a…

— Al Madrigal

And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.

— Willie Nelson

Until the day I don't breathe, I will create music.

— Gift of Gab

I made the song 'Sandese aate hain' for the soldiers to sing in their bunkers.

— Anu Malik

Beautiful music itself is already an aphorism.

— Ilkin Santak

I feel like my music stands for the ultimate statement of irreverence.

— Kesha

My sound is definitely what I like to call 'e-clectric.'

— Miguel

Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.

— Anonymous

Since around 6 or 7, I've been taking classes in piano, guitar, music theory.

— Skip Marley

If we're karaoke-ing, I'm as likely to do Aerosmith as I am 'Sweeney Todd'.

— Eric McCormack

Out of my own great woe I make my little songs.

— Heinrich Heine

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

— Charlie Day

I listen to loads of different music all the time.

— Ronan Keating

I had always wanted to write a song on my mother and also mothers generally.

— Neeti Mohan

I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!

— Malin Akerman

Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me

— George Eliot

Listening to Alabama Shakes made me less self-conscious about my voice.

— SZA