Song Quotes · Page 540

I once tried to sing jazz for real. But jazz didn't do it for me. You can't have jazz without a jazz…

— Jeff Buckley

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of…

— Betty Buckley

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

— Scott Weiland

Basically I feel like my role is to find great songs with the artists, for the artists, and have them shine.

— Dr. Luke

Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings…

— Rajneesh

A lotta years I was out there on the road pulling one-nighters. Then I got hired to sing in Sam Donahue's band…

— Frank Sinatra Jr

Every Tom, Dick and Harry is making records. They have one hit and are gone forever.

— Lorrie Morgan

Through Russ, though not his muscles but the percussion he provides with me as a guide

— Gorillaz

When it came time to sequence the album, the new arrangements really demanded a different order. They were so different than they…

— Natalie Merchant

In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills.…

— Alison Moyet

With every album, I write above my ability, and my job as a guitarist is to catch up and be able to…

— Zacky Vengeance

Lots of these songs I hadn't performed, but I've always wanted to. These are songs that I wanted to get in my…

— Kristin Chenoweth

I've learned after doing a couple records that if it feels good and it's easy, then that's usually a good sign. And…

— Anna Ternheim

I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild…

— Phil Anselmo

There are a few great orchestras in the world, thank goodness. Although some people do put them in ranking order, it's not…

— Simon Rattle

I can't play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn't bother me, because frankly, if…

— Phil Collins

I sing to myself more than anything. I'm always chastising myself, telling myself to be better, or comforting myself.

— Daniel Caesar

“The Music blows wherever Music pleases, you hear it’s sound, but you cannot tell where the Music comes from or where the…

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

I just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song

— Will Ferrell

I'm a huge karaoke person even though I have the worst singing voice. When you love doing something, who cares?

— Hoda Kotb

I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my…

— Anna Akhmatova

Salman Khan gave me a break, and that proved to be a boon. By the grace of God, my first song was…

— Himesh Reshammiya

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

— Lady Gaga

We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about.

— Anthony Kiedis

“Love? It is the most beautiful music of the soul. She has all the perfect notes!”

— Viorel Muha

People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics.

— Robert Breault

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.

— Carlos Santana

Whenever I sing on a different scale, I sound very different. However, I have learned that I can experiment with my tone.

— Tulsi Kumar

Music is never-ending, that's what I love about it. Even after we're dead, this music will still exist... that's the best bit.…

— Max Cavalera

I used to be just a total jazz freak. People used to say, 'Where's the melody? Is there a melody in there…

— Glen Campbell

We all know there are some major problems in the music industry. Every new act signs a bad deal.

— Martie Maguire

A lot of people see me just as a player. Music is how I introduce my life to people.

— Marvin Bagley III

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

— Alicia Keys

I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.

— Kim Gordon

Certain artists have a role to echo the echoes of the people and that's what I'll be doing on my next album.

— Jimmy Cliff

I didn't want to write a sad song to remind me of the fact that I'm always moving around. I wanted something…

— Alice Merton

I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can…

— Andre Previn

Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up…

— James Young

I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken…

— Nikka Costa

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.

— Bryan Adams