Song Quotes · Page 453

I always dreamt of being in 'Kerrang.' That was my ambition. I read that religiously when I was into heavy metal. Then…

— Julian Barratt

I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.

— Victor Borge

I know this guy is a musician so I hope he can play us a tune that could get us the hell…

— Joe Teti

I started to play music again because of my dad and my mom. I grew up playing guitar with my dad, and…

— Mandy Harvey

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

— Sonny Rollins

As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get…

— Flea

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

— Blaise Pascal

Jack White has just done a song for Coca-Cola. End of. He ceases to be in the club. And he looks like…

— Noel Gallagher

There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night…

— Dan Hawkins

The music that I will continue to make will certainly draw upon those experiences of being a loner, of being an emo…

— Princess Nokia

I am finding out that maybe I was wrong That I've fallen down and I can't do this alone Stay with me,…

— Paramore

For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant…

— Dweezil Zappa

“Initially I had been attracted to punk and anarchism because I saw them as a means to make a positive change, where…

— Laura Jane Grace

Perhaps I will die too, she told herself, and the thought did not seem so terrible to her. If she flung herself…

— Anonymous

I was being musically mentored by a lot of people who were obviously more talented and skilled than I was, and I…

— Katy Perry

No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is you…

— Brad Paisley

My parents were both opera singers, and they also were both heavily into religious and church music.

— Rick Nielsen

We can judge the pulse of a song and match it with our listeners' sensibilities. I think we do this extremely well,…

— Bhushan Kumar

“Humming the Star Wars theme to encourage myself, I wobbled onto my feet. Sometimes a girl's gotta provide her own trumpet-heavy heroic…

— Shannon Hale

We love music, and when it's good we flip. And we want to get to the core of why it's good.

— Chris Thile

I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot…

— John Lennon

We need the whole song, all the verses and the choruses to serve us as our own story unfolds because- trust me-…

— Gloria Gaither

I think just letting go is a really good thing to do in many areas of your life, songwriting included.

— Ingrid Michaelson

I was listening to the 'Song Remains The Same' version of 'Dazed And Confused' and, oh my God, that is such an…

— Jason Bonham

The music I'm making is like an explosion of love. It moves away from super dark, its more romanticized and floral, but…

— Charli XCX

I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I…

— Hank Williams

I want the feeling where you don't really know what to do with yourself - in the vocals, in the production. Everything.

— Tove Lo

God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.

— Mitch Albom

The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music.

— Big Boi

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

— William Shakespeare

I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.

— Richard Burton

Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song,…

— Andrea Bocelli

I would love to have a song that fusions western arrangement with classic Indian instruments.

— Lara Fabian

Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me.

— Rafal Blechacz

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

— Linda Ellerbee

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

— Lotte Lehmann

I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and…

— Darlene Zschech

It is a fact that each song an artist creates is unique and although fans tend to be loyal, ultimately the quality…

— Greg Ginn

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good…

— Emeli Sande

I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever…

— Kailash Kher