Song Quotes · Page 602

I really like when the lyrics in the music have an interesting relationship between one another - where they contrast each other.

— Caroline Polachek

My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me.

— Gerard Way

I suppose I am more comfortable with jazz because I have been playing it that much longer, and also because classical music…

— Adnan Sami

The urge to sing was so strong one day I performed in a club and it was very successful.

— Klaus Nomi

It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.

— Angel Olsen

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

— Carrie Underwood

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten…

— Eric Clapton

I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.'

— Dionne Warwick

The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick…

— Buzz Osborne

Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life,…

— Dave Lombardo

My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band…

— Jimmy Dean

I've been very blessed to make a living in stuff I love and am totally passionate about, music and writing. So I'm…

— John Densmore

I finished 'Beautiful Creature,' and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some…

— Juliana Hatfield

“ The Day is Done The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the…

— Clarence Clemons

I like clever songs. I like songs that make people think and I try to have substance in all my records, even…

— Rico Love

“A new song begins, and in the dark, we listen, letting lyrics about love and suffering and hope fall over us.”

— Autumn Doughton

I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing.

— Pete Townshend

I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string.

— Alannah Myles

For me, that's always been one of the great charms of the first person: we gain access to a very personal, private…

— Chang-Rae Lee

During 'Somebody Somewhere,' I listened to a lot of '70s rock and Barry Manilow, which was the soundtrack of growing up in…

— Bridget Everett

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

— Ellen G. White

The Beatles tried to do some tours and found it to be completely pointless and became a non-touring band after that, and…

— Robbie Robertson

I've been classically trained in piano since I was little. My father was a pianist, so they started me early.

— Beth Phoenix

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

— Claude Debussy

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

— Aristotle

I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and…

— Joan Jett

Life's a dance you learn as you go, sometimes you lead sometimes you follow, don't worry about what you don't know

— John Michael Montgomery

I think metal fans are more loyal than other fans, and they are often more inclined to collect the albums of their…

— Varg Vikernes

A lot of people change their band names because they're looking for a change of atmosphere.

— Justin Vernon

“Song of my soul, my voice is dead, Die though, unsung, as tears unshed Shall dry and die in Lost Carcosa ”

— Robert W. Chambers

Every set is a different experience, so it's hard to say which one's my favorite.

— Maxim Knight

People send me songs all the time that are literally no-brainer hits... but for me, I'm an artist because I'm a writer.

— Kelsea Ballerini

I wish I could sing. When I think I'm singing, I'm actually going really off-tune.

— Akshara Haasan

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

— PJ Harvey

Whether good or bad things happen, music allows you to separate yourself from reality a bit.

— HoYeon Jung

I didn't really know about Marilyn Manson - it's not my sort of music, not exactly the sort of thing I would…

— Twiggy

I love music with my soul, but I'm also a student of it, so it's very important to me to earn the…

— Lari White

The private little world that I create with my music is something that most people like to listen to alone and get…

— Cat Stevens

Since I was a kid, music has been a huge part of my life. My parents had a pretty solid vinyl collection…

— Reid Scott