Song Quotes · Page 611

I can support my sound from the diaphragm, I can project and I can enunciate and things like that. But I was…

— Jacob Collier

I'm just going with the flow. I'm in the process, I'm on the path. I'm really working towards all of my goals…

— Brandy Norwood

I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never…

— Amy Winehouse

A lot of times, people have forgotten about an album by the time it's released, because it leaked three months earlier. Very…

— Matt Smith

Vinyl's just a fun endgame step. I work with analogue signal chains too, but the mp3 is the way I listen to…

— Tim Hecker

From our music in general, we've always fought the idea that we had to fit into a box or fit into a…

— Chrissy Costanza

It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.

— Steve Vai

“I just knew that it was going to be my favorite song...for the rest of my life.”

— Rainbow Rowell

For me, writing music is a good way to say what's on my mind. It's less vulnerable in a way, less embarrassing,…

— Aaron Lines

I thought if I gave people all of my journey in one go, it could be overwhelming and easily forgotten, and I…

— Dawn Angelique

I think playback singing has a lot to do with voice acting. I would suggest to all the youngsters to understand the…

— Lata Mangeshkar

In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be…

— Kanye West

Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that…

— Jimmy Page

When I finally stopped [singing], he had been saying, like, the last day or so, he'd been saying, now, I think we…

— Johnny Cash

Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most…

— Nikki Giovanni

If I can do concert recitals, adapting the repertoire to my needs, then no problem, that's good enough. But with operas, unless…

— Jose Carreras

We weren't like mates who decided to form a band. The other three met me because they were interested in being in…

— Billy Corgan

I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs.

— Sharon Jones

My mom is floored! She's so proud. I always wanted to do a channel that incorporates songs for younger kids.

— GloZell

We just feel like whoever is doing music, they express themselves the best way they can from what they know.

— Sisqo

I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.

— George Michael

This is how people are going to listen to music now - streaming. So diversify as a band. It doesn't mean selling…

— Winston Marshall

Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.

— Alexander Pope

I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very…

— Flume

When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good,…

— Mary J. Blige

I love my mom. I think my mom is responsible for me loving music and being in music because she subjected it…

— Maria Brink

If you're writing a song about a relationship ending, what you're really doing is honoring how much that person meant to you.

— Conor O'Brien

When someone ask you to listen to a song, it's because the lyrics means everything they're trying to say.

— Anonymous

The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread…

— Billy Joel

The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.

— Billy Corgan

I think my love for rhythm in language comes from repeating the same words, the same sounds, over and over again day…

— Nathan Englander

I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother. It was sort of hard for me…

— Joely Fisher

If you're shocked that Britney was lip-syncing at her concert and want your money back, life may continue to be hard for…

— John Mayer

Whenever I have a problem, I sing. Then I realize that my voice is a lot worse than my problem.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument…

— Billy Sheehan

I am honored that 'Liquid Swords,' the song and album, have been so widely embraced for so long.

— Gza

I'm always working on lots of songs at once. For me it's very emotionally driven.

— Kate Brown

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that…

— Tom Curren

The music, I think, is just as important as the lyrics; it portrays the emotion of the song. I play the kind…

— Courtney Barnett

I suspect a singing teacher would have a fit with my diction. They'd probably think I was doing a very bad job.

— Elizabeth Fraser