Song Quotes · Page 659

Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.

— Kevin Spacey

I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that's a strong character, the stronger the person…

— Jimmy Page

The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

— Dana Gioia

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

— Barry Manilow

Trying to write new music is definitely daunting, but I try not to overthink it.

— Jonas Blue

Whenever I sing, I try to make it different, the sound that you've never heard before, and put something new, which people…

— Neha Kakkar

Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.

— Oscar Hijuelos

I was always taught by punk to think for yourself and to question authority. That's what I've always tried to do.

— Laura Jane Grace

I grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and…

— Martina McBride

I'm awful at karaoke, but if I did have to sing, I'd go for my favourite Frank Sinatra song 'I've Got You…

— Matt Smith

“The song that was playing above us was You And Me by Lifehouse and he pressed his face into my hair and…

— Shelly Crane

The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could…

— Joe Perry

Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time…

— Cornel West

My father, Harold, loved music. The radio was on all the time at home, and he had lots of great pop and…

— Richard Carpenter

I'm really happy with Elektra, I don't have anything bad to say about them at all. I always knew a major label…

— Jon Crosby

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts. We can either be…

— Hazel Scott

If music is to continue to support the livelihoods of artists, it cannot be taken without the permission of artists.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak- that I think about it all day long- that I like…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I still don't believe that all pieces of music are the same price. I just don't think that's America.

— Kid Rock

I think some sing-songwriter music can just be very serious - after an hour and a half of it, you are exhausted…

— Passenger

I have a piano in my office, and sometimes during meetings, I'll sit down and goof on the keyboard a little bit.

— Eric Garcetti

At times, it could be a bit difficult to understand everything that's being said when just listening, but I wanted the lyrics…

— Frank Iero

Boys are like songs: Some of them you like and listen to all the time, but there is that one you just…

— Alexia

To me, a song like 'Demons' or the title 'Trouble Will Find Me' are acknowledgments that you can't really plan for life,…

— Bryce Dessner

There's something to be said for being classically trained on piano, but not having your whole makeup be tied to one instrument.

— Victoria Legrand

I play the guitar when I want to relax. But to play the guitar, you cut the nails. So one day, I'll…

— Indra Nooyi

It is vital for me to make progress as a lyrical singer since it also helps me to sing rock better.

— Tarja Turunen

Found a band tonight called star city meltdown, needs a better name and to cut out the keys, besides that, they're awesome!

— Danny Worsnop

I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.

— Ludacris

I want a man who could memorize my favorite song just to sing it to me when I'm feeling down.

— Anonymous

I am so unbelievably excited to share 'I Hope' with the world. After my 'Idol' chapter closed, I knew this song was…

— Gabby Barrett

The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get…

— Ben Harper

I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the…

— Fantasia Barrino

No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore.

— Thurston Moore

Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.

— Margaret Mitchell

I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song from point A to…

— Stephen Sondheim

Ever since I was a little kid, my ears and my hands would talk to each other very well, so I could…

— Jack Garratt

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace…

— David Antin

Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.

— Jake Bugg

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

— Robert Fripp