Song Quotes · Page 557

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

— Shakira

I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.

— King Krule

Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.

— Andrea Gibson

This album [Stroll] and all my songs that break barriers are more reflective of my personality.

— SonReal

Every nation, every human being that came across earth had a song and sang in some way to their God.

— Thomas A. Dorsey

A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.

— Alex Kapranos

I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.

— Steve Earle

My father moved through theys of we, singing each new leaf out of each tree, (and every child was sure that spring…

— Mitch Albom

A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta…

— Dan Bern

There is another sort of day which needs celebrating in song -- the day of days when spring at last holds up…

— Anonymous

There's songs that could either be taken as a conversation between two people, like "The Privateers," or "Why," from a much earlier…

— Andrew Bird

I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts…

— Willie Nelson

I've never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I'm an emotional player. I don't really like people. I…

— Tori Amos

God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills…

— Joaquin Miller

I don't really see a difference in independent and major labels. To me, it's pretty much the same. There used to be…

— M.I.A

I just want to try - on a daily basis keep trying - to make music that I really love.

— Moby

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think -…

— Kenny G

Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and…

— Michael Brecker

My father was a preacher so I wouldn't sing at all when he was around, but as soon as he locked the…

— John Witherspoon

In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.

— Emily Haines

'All Over Me' is a song that I really got fired up the first time I heard it: it just really moved…

— Josh Turner

I'm a Scandinavian Midwest girl who doesn't always know what's going on in herself emotionally, which is why I make music in…

— Erika M. Anderson

“And if I get it right everybody will be singing along, yeah And when they see you on the street they’ll say,…

— Keith Urban

I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only.

— Dave Matthews

For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being,…

— Leontyne Price

I write lyrics. putting words and melodies to my songs. That's a real challenge, I take it on vigorously.

— Gord Downie

“Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or…

— Robin Hobb

The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.

— Patti Page

Sometimes an unexpected chord change can be the difference between a good song and a great song.

— Gary Talley

I really like working with drummers, I like being able to bounce ideas off drummers.

— Thighpaulsandra

I always have to change the song I'm playing to something less embarrassing before someone gets into my car.

— Anonymous

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

— Aristotle

I get really angsty if I've got songs building up and I haven't gotten them recorded.

— Ben Howard

As I was not a good singer - I have started to sing. And because no one could write an appropriate song…

— Verka Serduchka

I'm singing these songs about death and stuff. I see somebody who's, like, in their sixties or seventies at the show, and…

— Phil Elverum

I play the piano when I'm alone at home in the evening. Sometimes for friends when we are together, singing together, to…

— Ralph Hasenhuttl

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

— Tom Conti

As a musician, language is almost like another instrument. Every word has a sound.

— Rosalia

You can't really write a full album about your missus. She'll start getting the wrong idea and start thinking I like her.

— Noel Gallagher