Song Quotes · Page 532

While there is a typical introduction song for the hero, there are songs that represent each phase of the characters' journey.

— Mani Sharma

I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want…

— Maluma

Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors…

— Anna Thomas

Words have been the most difficult thing for me. Melodies have been the easiest for me; I have more than enough melodies…

— Leon Russell

Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that…

— Alfred Austin

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is…

— Alison Krauss

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes…

— Whitney Houston

I don't think there's anything wrong with singing a song and having fun with it.

— Joe Nichols

There is no way that I could pinpoint just one person. When I first started, I was listening to Randy Rogers quite…

— Curtis Grimes

Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot of people thought that was something to do with heroin.…

— David Eugene Edwards

It's been really cool to me to watch someone like Sam Hunt, whose lyrics and roots are in country but you can…

— Kelsea Ballerini

Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of…

— Kris Kristofferson

I honor the wisdom of life. I learn from life in all its forms. The tree teaches me. The sparrow and the…

— Julia Cameron

Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms,…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Napster is a consumer revolt. Napster is about my right to have this music and to share if I've paid for it.…

— Douglas Rushkoff

In 'Queen,' songs were the part of events happening in the story, and that is where we enjoy music. We dance at…

— Manoj Bajpayee

In the West we are constantly hit with music of Middle Eastern descent signifying terror, intrigue or sorrow.

— Rostam Batmanglij

I missed being onstage behind the microphone. After a while, it was hard to hear another voice singing my lyrics.

— Maren Morris

I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

— Robert Wyatt

In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.

— Bonnie Tyler

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.

— Craig Finn

No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts…

— William Osler

It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.

— Jonathan Davis

We've won both the best and worst band in so many major magazines - we just get written off so much, but…

— Andy Biersack

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.

— Graham Nash

I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things…

— Jessye Norman

Surely there's a deeper pursuit to music than getting bros to pump their fists in the air.

— Kevin Parker

I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

— Cannonball Adderley

You can tell when a song has come from the heart and is genuine, and it moves you more when you can…

— Arlo Parks

Some songs we heard again and again not because we don't understand it but because we feel it very much.

— Nishan Panwar

I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s.

— Rickey Medlocke

But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take…

— Eric Clapton

There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a…

— Peter Shaffer

My own goals center around writing the best music that I can, and only I can determine whether or not I've succeeded…

— Michael Hersch

When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've…

— Perfume Genius

I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated…

— Rokia Traore

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

I enjoy albums, not a song here and there. The recordings I like have been a soundtrack to a universe.

— Little Simz

When I'm listening to music for pleasure, I'm gonna listen to someone else's music.

— Mark Lanegan

Surf is that music which is entirely about evoking something. There's never any vocals, so it's not about the lyrics, it's about…

— Stephin Merritt