Song Quotes · Page 507

It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.

— Adele

I feel a profound connection to you based on the music in your shared iTunes folder.

— Anonymous

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate…

— Ariel Pink

I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

Fifty-one million likes doesn't mean we're going to sell 51m albums or concert tickets.

— Troy Carter

I always thought I wrote good bridges. I was a bit more impressed with the bridges I wrote than maybe the songs…

— Rick Nielsen

I'm Not a Player girl.Do you see a playlist on me?.If I was a player you would have been my favourite song…

— Curtis Mayne

My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

— Condola Rashad

“Song" Observe the cautious toadstools still on the lawn today though they grow over-evening; sun shrinks them away. Pale and proper and…

— Anonymous

It's a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that…

— Bette Midler

You could do a 'Les Mis'-type musical about Hamilton, but it would have to be 12 hours long, because the amount of…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Anyone that I've ever worked with, it's not like I just meet you or someone throws us together for the sole purpose…

— Black Thought

When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to…

— Liz Phair

Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know,…

— Herbie Hancock

There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to…

— Moby

My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about…

— Jens Lekman

One reason why love songs are better than love itself is that you can replay them.

— Tablo

The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go.

— Kim Wilde

If an artist I liked disowned songs that meant a lot to me, I would be pretty hurt by that.

— Porter Robinson

I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.

— Zedd

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

— Franz Liszt

If you are gonna participate in a band, you've got to be a band member in good standing, and you've got to…

— Lindsey Buckingham

My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.

— Jimmy Page

The music comes from within and outside. Within is the big mystery of life; we've all got it.

— Jeff Buckley

As a lead singer, all I want to do is be in my own head and think about how great I am.…

— Mark McGrath

I think everyone has music inside them, and my hope is that I can help them find it.

— Grace VanderWaal

There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right…

— Ethan Coen

All the time, I play with a rhythm; if I'm too far out of the rhythm, I feel out of place.

— Iman Shumpert

Just finished listening my first song of Justin Beiber. If anyone needs anything I'll be in the closet.

— Nikhil Saluja

More than a career, I feel that I've got a function. I see things in a much more holistic way. Some people…

— Jackson Browne

It's trippy to think we have an album that's 10 years old. It's even trippier to think we have a couple of…

— Ben Gibbard

“HIT SONG written by Johnny Mercer during the Second World War contained the words “accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative….”

— Sir John Templeton

I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.

— Lyle Lovett

The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.

— Sebastian Faulks

The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry…

— Kate Bush

When I get into the studio, it's not about trying to get a good song, it's about whatever comes naturally.

— Jessica Mauboy

He who sings a song to Christ in the night, sings the best song in all the world; for he sings from…

— Charles Spurgeon

Im singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.

— Amy Lee

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song.

— Anonymous

I love having a major label behind me. Independent was really great to start off, as and I made some really big…

— Daya