Song Quotes · Page 416

Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch.

— S. D Gordon

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.

— Ricky Skaggs

Music is the thing you can really get personal with without people really knowing what it's about.

— Ava Michelle

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.

— Herbie Mann

I like Vory. How he sings, his vibrato, and the content of what he's singing about.

— Rubi Rose

Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.

— Daniel Barenboim

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

— Patti Smith

I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.

— Damian Marley

I would get songs sung to me, like 'Old Man River, 'or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At…

— River Phoenix

Yoko had 10 years and I had 10 years and I would rather have had the 10 years I had than the…

— Cynthia Lennon

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The…

— Shawn Colvin

We can do many different things as a band. But that doesn't mean we should do that. If we did all we're…

— Alissa White-Gluz

Having the savvy to know what you want to say, how you want to say it, and what music you want to…

— Pharoahe Monch

Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings.…

— Eoin Colfer

There are other kinds of emotional pain that emerge from our own mistaken thinking. As we surrender that pain, we are inviting…

— Marianne Williamson

It's as simple as finding something on the street and then writing a jingle. If I'm driving and I have my turn…

— Nate Ruess

In my opinion, you just have to make the music. Make the music and work as hard as you can to get…

— India Arie

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

— Barry Manilow

I've been running my own record label and doing my weekly radio shows, but people don't see the work. People only see…

— Hardwell

Honestly, I would love to sing too but I don't have the courage to sing on a professional level.

— Rashami Desai

As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in…

— Thalia

“I’m sleepin’ in your pee pee, and I’m dreaming of what could be.” That’s just the chorus of a little love song…

— Jarod Kintz

Music is a good way to channel your fragile, vulnerable, needy side, but it's also something to rejoice in.

— Paolo Nutini

“Every band is allowed to do things how they want - including getting on stage in pink pasiley suits and doing TIP…

— Hanako Stephens

Whenever I write lyrics and an Americanism slips in, I always cut it straight out. I can't use the word 'babe,' for…

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

I wouldn't want to write a song in a pair of sneakers. I think it would be a horrible song.

— Justin Tranter

I can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them.

— John Prine

It's good having a lot of different songs to choose from to do the show. It means you don't get bored of…

— Bryan Ferry

My lyrics are quite train of thought, and they are all over the place, but they evoke something.

— St. Lucia

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

— Evan Dando

I did sing a track for Dhanush's '3,' but that's because the track required a voice like mine.

— Anirudh Ravichander

What makes a great song - you don't put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It…

— Diane Warren

Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.

— Dave Grohl

I've never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and…

— Justin Broadrick

Eric Clapton wrote "Layla" when he was coked out of his mind. Later on, it nearly killed him.

— Lemmy Kilmister

I don't like doing substandard work... I can't sleep at night if I make a bad song.

— Amaal Mallik

Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.

— Rabindranath Tagore

There's no one songwriter in the band. It's collaborative, and we all have different tastes.

— Aaron Dessner

“From love's plectrum arises the song of the string of life Love is the light of life love is the fire of…

— Allama Iqbal

During 'Torches,' I was more concerned with communicating the spirit of the song than the actual lyrics.

— Mark Foster