Song Quotes · Page 605

I've been very happy to see some of the success that I've had along the way in opening the eyes of people,…

— Johnny Mathis

“a record player needle had slipped into the groove in the vinyl and I couldn't get it out again.”

— Leslie McAdam

I don't even want a song to ramp up the drama, you know? I want music to be there only when it…

— Ramy Youssef

I think that the best music and the music that people relate to the most is the honest music that people feel…

— Morgan Wallen

I think... people are inspired by our music, and that's cool. We all borrow each other's music.

— Hope Sandoval

My grandmother really wanted to see me become a singer, but she passed away before I became one.

— Jeongyeon

I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

— Nick Cave

The royalties from downloading are bad enough but the royalties from streaming are non-existent.

— Paul Young

The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always…

— Albert Einstein

I would only listen to certain things, like a lot of teenagers do. But the Tragically Hip is a ribbon that's been…

— John K. Samson

I was very quick; I did nothing but play the piano apart from being at school. I was at home with my…

— Stephen Hough

Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in…

— Brian McKnight

Winter will never come for the likes of us. Should we die in battle, they will surely sing of us, and it’s…

— George R. R. Martin

If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves…

— Yehudi Menuhin

I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the…

— Mose Allison

As a power listener who listens to music between 10 and 14 hours a day and who always has his earphones and…

— Robert Christgau

I don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs…

— Kelli O'Hara

From my early training days, I am an avid listener of heavy music which is laced with proper diction and effective use…

— Javed Ali

I don't really work on songs when we're touring because there's just too much other stuff going on.

— Taylor Goldsmith

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

— Madame de Stael

And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it.…

— Taylor Swift

You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.

— Gary Cherone

You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want…

— Jon Foreman

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued…

— Neil Young

Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking…

— Alex Turner

“Clive remained behind Simon’s knees. Simon’s Knees . . . What a great name for a band.”

— Alice Clayton

My childhood was full of Salil Chowdhary, R.D. Burman and Madan Mohan sahab. My father used to play with them and I…

— Jeet Gannguli

“I asked for the music, then invited it to enter my body and find the broken and sore places and restore them”

— Maya Angelou

The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.

— Paul Lansky

As Juan Gabriel, music is my religion, and mariachi is my devotion. And my songs are my prayers.

— Juan Gabriel

It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

— Walter Becker

“In 1945 music had a serious purpose; to defy post war depression & revitalize the romantic & hopeful aspirations of an exhausted ppl.”

— Pete Townshend

I think that's one of the hardest parts as an artist, and creating a career, is the song is what is gonna…

— Matthew Ramsey

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.

— Duke Ellington

The great jazz and jazz-influenced singers carry themselves with a certain panache and a certain elegance and, for lack of a better…

— Kurt Elling

I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.

— Dolly Parton

Songs like 'Peaceful World' and songs that are responsible with their lyrics and talk about love and harmony can take the forefront…

— India Arie

All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an…

— Leon Russell

People who want to see things in stark dualities are not going to get much out of my music.

— Josh Tillman

I think my music tastes keep changing, so I think the music I make changes a little bit.

— Eric Hutchinson