Song Quotes · Page 358

Rock bands are not exactly magnets of functional people.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.

— Joan Baez

I've always wanted my music to serve a certain purpose.

— India Arie

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

— Robert Browning

I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed.

— Elijah Wood

A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.

— Anonymous

It took me five years to learn how to sing.

— Barbi Benton

Chopin was an invalid, as you know, but his music was volcanic.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

I have to hear more live instrumentation, more band and more funk, and I don't hear enough of it, so I created…

— Kat Graham

I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice,…

— Yoko Ono

Brush away any pain that is deep within your heart, For your heart is here to sing to the lovely tune of…

— Bubbly

Your the beat of my heart, the song on my lips, the air on my lungs. You are an irriplacible part of…

— Rachel Smile

Tramps Like Us is The GREATEST Bruce Springsteen Tribute Band In The LAND! I've witnessed them on several occasions and their performances…

— Mike Appel

That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves…

— Jill Scott

If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.

— Geddy Lee

I listen to all kinds of music. The Calling, Blink 182, Bruce Springsteen, I mean, it's everything.

— Henrik Lundqvist

You are the meaning of my life¥ You are the dreams of my thoughts¥ You are the lyrics of my feelings¥ You…

— Natalie Helouova

I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're…

— Mel Torme

As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this…

— Clarence Clemons

and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath the first time his fingers touched the keys the same way a soldier holds…

— Andrea Gibson

“I hope Ludwig van Beethoven gets his cut, Langdon thought, fairly certain that the original inventor of bone conduction technology was the…

— Dan Brown

I'm trying to play tunes in a new way, using all the same scales, harmonies, structures, but twist everything a little bit…

— Allan Holdsworth

I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily…

— Dan Hill

I'm not sure how young kids get to the point where they're memorizing and knowing songs, but I knew the words to…

— Brandon Flowers

The Internet has been a godsend and a nightmare for the music industry.

— Jimmy Barnes

Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay

— David Toop

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.

— Herb Alpert

Bad singing on a good song, makes a bad song.

— Melchor Lim

In the end, it's always about the three-piece band and the singer.

— John Waite

I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.

— Pierre Boulez

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

— Brian Eno

All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea.

— John Mayer

When you are happy it is harder to write [songs].

— Gloria Estefan

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

— Erykah Badu

There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

I see myself, ultimately, as an entrepreneur artist that is still making songs.

— Adore Delano

With Audioslave, it's all about melody and chord progressions.

— Tim Commerford

My band is stupid, and we're gonna continue to be stupid, I guess.

— John Dolmayan

However, music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

— Samuel Pepys

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.

— Robin Trower