Song Quotes · Page 359

I use a combination of all my influences on my albums.

— Robin Trower

There's always that one song that brings back old memories.

— Nishan Panwar

That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.

— George Best

The tonality of the flute almost has a mystic element to me.

— Ramin Djawadi

That's another interesting thing about music: It can mean anything.

— Matt Corby

I sing a little bit, yeah. But I sing very poorly.

— H. Jon Benjamin

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

— Tony Curtis

What good are three Beatles without John?

— George Harrison

I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, how I'm feeling.

— Ladyhawke

But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail.

— Eminem

You have people ask us how you get through all the stuff that Skynyrd's been through, and I think it's the music;…

— Johnny Van Zant

I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm…

— Samantha Barks

Don't call yourself a rock music fan if the only bands you know are BVB and Linkin Park.

— Anonymous

If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody…

— Daryl Hall

I would like to think of Badfinger's music as mood music. Something with a bit of feeling, whether it's hard or soft.

— Peter Ham

All I really need is a song in my heart, food in my belly, and love in my family.

— Raffi

I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour…

— Jonny Greenwood

“ Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream. I lie in…

— Alice Munro

I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and…

— Kim Gordon

When I made 'What They Want,' I was going crazy. When I made 'Losin Control,' I was going crazy, when I made…

— Russ

“Billy Rankin is a true Glasgow rock legend. He has everything going for him: he's a brilliant guitarist, he writes killer songs,…

— Robert Fields

I've done a lot of writing for other people, other projects, and what I tried to do with the music I'm putting…

— Teddy Geiger

I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has…

— Emmylou Harris

History has proven that it's impossible to crush the artist. There's always gonna be a need for somebody to write a poem…

— Mos Def

“A good song should life your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.”

— Colbie Caillat

I make music to touch the souls of people as it's a language we all can speak.

— Andre Rieu

I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.

— Shawn Mendes

I would like to write or make a completely ambient song.

— Ruel

Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

Lyrics are always the last thing to get done.

— Jeff Hanneman

If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.

— Lauren Myracle

'Paani ravi da' is a very difficult song to sing.

— Neha Bhasin

It takes me forever to write songs most of the time.

— Mark Linkous

In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene.

— Kathleen Hanna

“Shit. I want that stupid song to be about me.”

— Emery Lord

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

— Tori Amos

All I'm interested in is liberating sound beyond all tradition.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

— Noam Chomsky

Music is great, because you can do that pretty much until you drop.

— John Petrucci

Destiny's Child literally taught me how to sing.

— Katy B