Song Quotes · Page 466

I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.

— Taylor Swift

It feels like guitarists are samurais. You know, I'm playing a guitar, instead of a katana!

— Miyavi

The most rewarding experience as a musician is to know that I moved people personally.

— Lari White

It's amazing how hearing one song can bring back so many memories and make you realise how much you need that one…

— Nishan Panwar

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die…

— Franz Grillparzer

God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.

— Ann Voskamp

Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.

— Jeff Tweedy

I practised for some two months for the 'Kaanta Laaga' video. I gave my best to the song and the success is…

— Shefali Zariwala

I'm not trying to dog any artist or genre, but to me, there is a lot of diversity missing from the radio.…

— Maren Morris

I never knew I was a songwriter. I didn't even know I was a singer. My parents just got me a guitar…

— Dion DiMucci

The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen…

— Feist

I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but…

— Eddie Van Halen

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people…

— Edgar Winter

People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those…

— Christopher Cross

So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right…

— Adam Rich

Some songs, some nights won't do anything for you, but people enjoy them and that's the job. The magic is finding those…

— Justin Vernon

Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music.

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.

— George Jones

“Now I know that the songs are just tools that help us get in the right place for the presence of God…

— Martin Smith

I remember at the age of, and I'll say this, 10 and a half, 11, I had a natural boy soprano.

— Anthony Warlow

Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help.

— Richard Kadrey

As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.

— Noel Gallagher

If I hear a song that I like, my first instinct is to find out about who made it.

— Chris Martin

Artists have different stages in their career, from George Michael via Wham! to people like Kylie. A change of perception is what's…

— Shakin' Stevens

The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the…

— Rabindranath Tagore

It's not just a song I sing with my hand raised but also with a billfold I've laid.

— Johnny Hunt

You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker.

— Bruce Johnston

I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

— Abigail Washburn

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my…

— Mike Stoller

I like listening to Beyonce, and I like Jason Derulo. I love his new song 'Don't Wanna Go Home.'

— Jackie Evancho

I think there are records that will sell, and I think what makes a record sell is a continuity of sound.

— Dr. Luke

I want my music to sound good on whatever people are listening - laptop speakers, those crappy little white ones you get…

— Jack Garratt

I can't tell you how many times I've turned to Parliament Funkadelic for inspiration and actually just outright and replayed or sampled…

— Too Short

I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel…

— Anonymous

I'm so hands-on and involved in my own music that I feel like if I put the same effort into another artist,…

— Freddie Gibbs

I'm a musician and I listen to music all the time. If there's something out there where someone would tell me that…

— Laura Jane Grace

There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening…

— Sean Parker

I felt like we used to hold ourselves in a box based on fear. Will the metal community accept us. Is this…

— Maria Brink

I'm blasting my music so I won't hear my thoughts, but the lyrics just remind me of what I'm trying to forget

— Fad Ibra