Song Quotes · Page 508

If only the bird with the loveliest song sang, the forest would be a lonely place.

— John James Audubon

As I've gotten older I've got more bass in my voice but also because I don't talk very much during the day…

— Mick Hucknall

I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures.

— Josh Klinghoffer

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a…

— Ozzy Osbourne

Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility.

— Dianne Reeves

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

— Donald O'Connor

I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

— Fantasia Barrino

I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.

— Bryn Terfel

Everyone always tells you about how amazing recording their first album was and how they'll always look back on the 'process' with…

— Lewis Capaldi

Writing songs does not get any easier, and that might be because I am harder on myself than I was twenty years…

— Dean Wareham

“When I’m moving down Broadway to meet Jean, my secretary, for brunch, in front of Tower Records a college student with a…

— Anonymous

“I think that any artistic decision that is based on whether or not you are going to make money it is not…

— Frank Zappa

How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed…

— Kathleen Battle

There were days on that show where I had to go in and record a song, then I had to rehearse the…

— Blake Jenner

“Even though we get a lot of people into the shop, only a small percentage of them buy anything. The best customers…

— Nick Hornby

“Consider my Lover; the yellow church of his skin, the clean wells of his ears; How the notes of a song come…

— Cecilia Llompart

Run the Jewels, our role is this: We can provide some music and some swagger in the face of doom and in…

— El-P

I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but…

— Sheryl Crow

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose…

— Alicia Witt

Life is like a music..sometimes it gets to hight pitch or sometimes low…life is beautiful...live your life your way and u'll find…

— Maclon S Fernandes

Rock'n'roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things,…

— John Mellencamp

I love playing acoustic guitar because I strum with my hands to feel more connected.

— Ananya Birla

Jimi Hendrix's 'Electric Ladyland' and 'All Along the Watchtower,' those solos are just so cool.

— Gary Rossington

If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.

— Charles Frazier

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

— Anonymous

I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.

— Colin Hay

A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

— Dolly Parton

It's been a long time the world's been waiting for this. Well Jr. Gong him come again him have some brand new…

— Junior Delgado

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

— Miranda Lambert

Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo,

— Nomi Prins

Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction…

— Albert Einstein

I always say, 'If it looks good on a T-shirt, it would probably be a pretty cool title or cool song.'

— Cole Swindell

I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.

— Antonio Carlos Jobim

Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.

— Roberta Flack

Songs from the theatre can be taken and put on record in a commercial and contemporary way, be reinvented and become standout…

— Michael Ball

I like the idea that songs can communicate in a way no other media can. That's why I write them.

— David Longstreth

Writing music - particularly music without lyrics - calls almost exclusively on the subconscious.

— Jon Hopkins

Some of my favorite songs--and I don't know if this is the right terminology--are white-boy classics.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Every time I hear a song that reminds me of my ex I have a strong erg to punch the radio.

— Ambri Bright

Music taught me how to always be patient and focused, and to train the little concentration in myself.

— Hiromi