Song Quotes · Page 597

I've never felt the least bit entitled to airplay. Each spin I get means the world to me.

— Frankie Ballard

Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.

— Scott Ian

“These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.”

— Brenda Sutton Rose

When I was in high school in the '50s, all pop music - Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard - was aimed at…

— Robert Hilburn

I'm a song-and-dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.

— Betty Grable

I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.

— Ed Sheeran

I wrote my first song when I was seven and that was kind of country. Now I'm just like 'No! Why did…

— Cody Simpson

I always dreamed that I'd be a singer. I didn't dream about being a star or anything. I just knew I wanted…

— Lindsay Pagano

My theory on Manchester and why it produces the bands it does is that because the world is willing to listen to…

— Jimi Goodwin

My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every…

— Dan Hawkins

I wanted to hear what she was saying. I wanted to smell that burnt midnight again, I wanted to feel that wind.…

— Janet Fitch

My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a…

— Gloria Estefan

I don't collect the way other people do. Some people collect rare guitars, like, 'I have a '54 Strat worth $50,000.' And…

— David Crosby

I’m sorry. I was just thinking of that stupid song, ‘Seasons in the Sun.’ You know, ‘we had joy, we had fun,…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I just want to make good music, and as long as I'm happy with it, the charting isn't that important to me.…

— Astrid S

I've been through a lot, both personally and professionally, and the album that I started to record two and a half years…

— JoJo

“There's nothing better than playing a song for someone, written by someone, who took the time to write and explain that exact…

— Sarah Gai

But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper.

— Reba McEntire

Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.

— Tommy Mottola

For me particularly, when I listen to or make the music of the team called SHINee, I think that ultimately SHINee is…

— Kim Jong-hyun

People used to complain to me all the time, 'I can't even hear you sing because your clothes are so loud.

— Cyndi Lauper

I like seeing someone that can sing jazz and then flip over and sing a pop song and then sing a rock…

— Sara Bareilles

I used to play guitar years ago. It brought me a lot of pleasure when I was a teenager growing up and…

— Kathy Bates

Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing . . . . Nobody can play guitar like that

— John Lennon

Bobby McGee' was the song that made the difference for me. Every time I sing it, I still think of Janis.

— Kris Kristofferson

I download music everyday, I know music is free and so does everybody else you know.

— Vic Mensa

If you go to Tiananmen Square, or go to any public area in China, you will hear my music at some point.

— Kenny G

“You ought to use a little of that siren song on Alan, my pearl. The boy needs to loosen his cravat.”

— Jaclyn Dolamore

I can't give money away to buy listeners. I can't pay listeners off with phones or food stamps or anything. I can't…

— Rush Limbaugh

On Heartbreaker, I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did…

— Ryan Adams

It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

— Greg Graffin

Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.

— Ned Rorem

Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need,…

— Doug Martsch

There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music.

— Matt Tong

My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around…

— Len Cariou

I've always been frightened of karaoke, so I've never tried it. Karaoke scares the hell out of me!

— Johnny Depp

Whenever am stressed,Whenever am anoyed,Whenever am isolated,Music Makes me fill good,happy,it takes every pain,and fill WaaaWooo!!

— Mks Alanz

I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.

— Jacob Bannon

Within Klaxons, I never wrote the lyrics. I always wrote the melody and music with the other guys.

— James Righton

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add…

— Jackson Browne