Song Quotes · Page 475

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and…

— Ben Harper

The Treorchy Male Choir - the very name is a song! May I thank the Choir, past and present, for all the…

— Glenda Jackson

If we play a Journey song, there's no way we're playing, like, 'Don't Stop Believin'.'

— Tom Sandoval

When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with…

— Laura Marling

I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas.

— Ted Leo

Music is human vibration. It makes humans vibrate and takes them someplace else.

— Abderrahmane Sissako

I am not cute. I am the dreaded Grim Reaper. People fear me, you know. There's a whole song about it.

— Rachel Vincent

I never planned to join Black Sabbath - it just happened. It was back in 1979 when they were celebrating their 10th anniversary.

— Ronnie James Dio

Duane Allman might be my favorite guitar player ever. I'd say I'm influenced by the Allman Brothers more than any other band.…

— Coy Bowles

The New Lost City Ramblers are a very good comparison, actually. They really took the music seriously, and we take the music…

— Winston Marshall

Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he…

— Robin Thicke

“My energy is evil," I said, surprising myself. "It's a loud, obnoxious song. It's sick. It just hurts people. I'm not sunshine…

— Willa Strayhorn

I just wanted to make good music that people related to me and said 'Yo that guy makes good music. When he…

— Fabolous

But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had…

— Griffin Dunne

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man…

— Leo Tolstoy

What hurts the most is being so close and watching you walk away, and never knowing what could've been... Can't you see…

— Rascal Flatts

If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

— Jerry Garcia

Ain't nobody more punk rock than Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, even Little Richard.

— Fantastic Negrito

Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me.

— Bruce Springsteen

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

— Roger Daltrey

It's easier for fans to consume one or two songs at a time. Not everybody buys records, so some songs can get…

— Chris Lane

It's like a dream sometimes, a song just pops into your head and you can't tell if it's something you heard or…

— Tyler Hilton

Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a…

— Nick Cave

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

— Youssou N'Dour

Gaslight Anthem's thing is its power. It's just like boom and explosions and loud, and play with everything you got.

— Brian Fallon

John was at his most relaxed with Ringo, who had him in stitches with his jokes.

— Cynthia Lennon

What my whole object was is not to really sell records. I was trying to sell songs.

— J. J. Cale

When I get home and turn on the radio, I hear songs that are new to me, but to everybody else they're…

— Chamillionaire

Whenever u have a problem, Just sing your favourite song... Then you will realize, The problem is better than your voice ...

— Melchor Lim

I'm not just writing songs that are narrating my life, but everyone else around my age because they're super-relatable.

— Shawn Mendes

I'm really big into lyrics in my own songs, so I look up to Drake in that aspect.

— Jake Paul

I did like seven songs on Michael Jackson's Invincible album, but I might have done 60 songs to get to those seven.…

— Rodney Jerkins

Secret valentine we'll write a song that turns out the lights. When both boy and girl start suddenly shaking inside.

— We The Kings

I just was always singing. I didn't know if it was good or not, but my grandma, she told me that I…

— Ari Lennox

I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like.

— Lana Del Rey

I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be…

— Lemmy

If you buy a CD and want to put your favorite songs on one CD, you should be able to do that.

— Ted Waitt

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be…

— Debby Ryan

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so…

— Adele

All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say…

— Shooter Jennings