Song Quotes · Page 565

The thing is, my life is a country song. I don't need to be manufactured, and I don't need anyone to tell…

— Kellie Pickler

I really love the piano and I feel very fortunate that I am able to play and travel all over the world…

— McCoy Tyner

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

— Larry Wilmore

My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.

— Ofra Haza

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.

— Kurt Masur

“Constipation ran Presley's life. Even his famous motto TCB— 'Taking Care of Business'— sounds like a reference to bathroom matters.”

— Mary Roach

I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a…

— Serj Tankian

I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.

— David Bowie

My mother made me take piano lessons, and because I am her oldest and she had not yet been worn down by…

— Sheri L. Dew

I don't think we care anymore about what we're gonna do. We're just gonna be our own band and we're not gonna…

— Patrick Stump

The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm…

— Jon Crosby

You have to have a plan. Everything has to be planned. For me, I start with the title of my album, before…

— Mary J. Blige

“It's a strange feeling, when you hear a good piece of music. It starts out kind of shaky, this hot, heavy knot…

— Claire Legrand

Music can make a difference. There is a global nature to music, which has the potential to bring all people together. Music…

— Marvin Hamlisch

I grew up listening to all kinds of music. When I came up, you would hear people like Marvin Gaye talking about…

— Dianne Reeves

I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that…

— Dwight Yoakam

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

— Benmont Tench

'Lauder' is a favorite because the name of the song is a friend of mine who passed away.

— J.I.D

You can write a million songs that are 'good', but they just aren't good enough.

— Alexa Borden

So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody…

— Adam Lambert

It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.

— Prince Philip

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

— Marion Cotillard

'They Don't Care About Us' by Michael Jackson - This song makes me want to dance, and I fell in love with…

— Summer Sanders

If you leave songs sitting around, you do yourself a disservice. You have to put them out there.

— LP

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

— Agnes Obel

“Music can provide us the emotional vitamins that we can't get from food; without it, the life would be incomplete.”

— John Taskinsoy

A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

— Rob Sheffield

I love the Sex Pistols. I'm a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.

— Bruno Mars

I think what I do really well is that I can 'chameleon' myself into many styles at a very fast pace, sometimes…

— Joe Bonamassa

You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.

— Dolly Parton

Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.

— Thomas Beecham

I'm a musician, I always was a musician, and now I've got a song on the radio, so I'm definitely a musician.

— Tulisa

I'm big fans of all those musicians, B.B. King, Mick Jagger - they're all on my iPod.

— Trombone Shorty

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE…

— David Lynch

Songwriting was always my 'plan B'. I didn't even know that songwriting was a job until my late teens!

— Keri Hilson

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

— Luther Vandross

You shouldn't even be writing this story if you haven't heard me play live. You can't write with the passion you receive…

— Dick Dale

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

— Richard Wagner

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary.…

— Emmylou Harris

I hear music Mighty fine music, The murmur of a morning breeze up there The rattle of the milkman on the stair…

— Frank Loesser