Song Quotes · Page 454

“I don't expect you to understand, little bird. I expect you only to sing. Sing for me, sing for Kanin, and make…

— Julie Kagawa

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case…

— Lulu

As an artiste you want to experiment, meet new people and do different kind of songs.

— Ankit Tiwari

“If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don’t want to cry anymore, you don’t listen to that song…

— Jay Asher

I have used that song ["50ft Queenie"] and I'm a big PJ Harvey fan. I think she's fantastic.

— Dylan Moran

I very rarely play with my fingers anymore. Again, with the flatwounds, the pick gives me a really nice solid punch.

— Cliff Williams

I used to have this little punk pop band, and I don't know why we did 'Behind Blue Eyes,' because it's not…

— Lights

On 'Underground,' we had used contemporary music to pull you into the present and not just look at it as a portrait…

— Misha Green

I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off…

— Meek Mill

They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music…

— Malcolm Wilson

It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I do that. I don't…

— Carrie Underwood

Music. I could not go without that. My mind would not let me be without music. I hiked the trail in 1995…

— Cheryl Strayed

He closed his eyes as she put her hand on his shoulder, and in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song,…

— Nicholas Sparks

I used to play trumpet when I was a kid, and then I got braces, and I couldn't really play it anymore,…

— Eric Hutchinson

The two biggest hits (by Machito)... were about that enduring Cuban song topic-food: 'Sopa de pichn' [pigeon soup] and 'Paella'. If you…

— Ned Sublette

There are some popular artists - you would say they run Jamaica, like their songs are played everywhere in Jamaica, because everyone…

— Koffee

If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?

— Amy Jackson

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy…

— Joe Elliott

My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own…

— Lucy Lawless

I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

There's so many things about Babymetal you cannot just grasp with the sound. The visual has to compliment the sound, the costumes…

— Suzuka Nakamoto

I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities."

— Eddie Vedder

Solomon was a musician and David was a musician, so it's a profession that I take seriously.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I think if you're creating music, and you love the song, holding it back is just doing it an injustice.

— Shawn Mendes

If it's the right song for me, I'll get on that song. It's not about the individual. It's about the music.

— Nav

I want somebody to hear my song and say, 'You know, man, I've been through that.'

— Omarion

“If I died tonight Everything would be alright The pain would be gone And life, life would be a new song”

— Atarah L. Poling

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

— Lindsay Lohan

Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts…

— Stephen Sondheim

I'm really bad writing the chase scenes or fighting scenes. I'm much better for writing, like, a more melancholic or tragic music.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not…

— Frankie Cosmos

When I'm going through something that has a big impact on my life, it's much easier to sing.

— Avril Lavigne

We're not on a mission to uplift people, but music in general has such a profound effect on people.

— Ron Mael

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

— Billy Gibbons

I didn't know the piano only has 12 notes. It's just different octaves of the same 12 notes. When I figured that…

— James Ingram

A lot of my songs deal with spirituality and God, and I guess if you're in tune with that, you'll read into…

— Lenny Kravitz

There's gotta be more to life than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me.

— Stacie Orrico

There's not a lot of pop music in the mainstream that makes you feel scared, that makes you wonder what's happening.

— Prince

I'm still an angry dude. I'm just older. I still push the band to be heavy and dark-that's always been my role.

— Kim Thayil

People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing.

— Roger McGuinn