Song Quotes · Page 460

The outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes.

— Dan Fogelberg

I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent…

— Chrissie Hynde

I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that…

— Jimi Hendrix

If the song makes it and people like it, then I guess that's all that matters, really.

— Jeff Beck

It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.

— Greg Lake

God has blessed me with something. One day, I do see myself being like Jimmy Iovine. I'm trying to build an empire.

— Mike Will Made It

I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different.

— Angel Haze

“Oh ... My twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And I give you…

— Neil Gaiman

Even now, it's so funny how much we do have in common and how much her experiences were similar to mine. But…

— Jillian Hervey

Flashing Lights In My Mind Going Back to The Time Playing Games in the Street Kicking Balls with My Feet Theres a…

— Anonymous

I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly…

— R. Kelly

The biggest reason was that when I started deejaying, I'd said that the other DJs in Japan were like salaried employees who…

— Hiroshi Fujiwara

Nothing unifies people more than music, more than that universal riff. The one thing that unifies us and the hope that we…

— Fantastic Negrito

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one,…

— John Cage

Someone like John Prine can write a song that tears into your soul, turn it over, and write a song that makes…

— Scott Avett

When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang…

— Eudora Welty

When I was at school I was always in choirs and started my own barbershop quartet when I was eight.

— Rebecca Front

Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity.

— Grace Potter

There's no real personality in the band that can be pushed to do anything that they don't want to. We are four…

— John Dolmayan

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

— Brian Setzer

I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.

— Lewis Capaldi

I always feel on film you have to earn a ballad, because it's a different kind of pace.

— Rob Marshall

There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.

— David Cook

I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.

— Robert Plant

SOLO' is a fun, self-loving song. Through it, I wanted to show different sides of me.

— Jennie

People like B.B. King told me I was a 'star' and told me I was 'the future of blues' - and Buddy…

— Larry Coryell

Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.

— Boris Pasternak

When I was seven, I sang 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' in assembly and the teachers were crying because it was so emotional!

— Arlo Parks

I sang 'Your Song' by Elton John, and Silva Screen Records were watching. They got in touch with my agent then had…

— Chris Kamara

Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.

— Peter Asher

It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.

— John Legend

My folks bought a baby grand piano and that's where I did the majority of figuring out the songs I heard on…

— Borns

The music does a lot for me. I'm one of those types of artists who the music really inspires my delivery, my…

— LeCrae

I'm always just looking to get back to the joy of playing music, and keeping it simple, as much as I can.

— Chris Stapleton

I've always treated my songwriting as a process that isn't solely driven by a production model or genre, but instead by a…

— Matthew Koma

You are my song playing so softly in my heart, I reach for you, you seem so near yet so far.

— Anonymous

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

When I was 9 years old, growing up in Denver in the 1960s, I'd spend hours listening to my friend's mother's record collection.

— Philip Bailey

There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s…

— Henry Rollins

“Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.”

— David Eagleman