Song Quotes · Page 663

The ones I have got great necks; of course, all of the Fenders from that era are incredible.

— John Fogerty

I need someone to give me a part where I play the piano so I can learn it. I would love that.

— Jude Law

My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.

— K. D. Lang

With the second record there's a need to show that we weren't chancers, that we could play our instruments.

— James Righton

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff…

— Frank Ocean

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

— John Philip Sousa

There's political content in almost every song we've ever written on some level. It colors everything.

— Aaron Dessner

The Beatles and the Stones had Elvis and Hollywood, but when it came to my generation America meant Richard Nixon and Vietnam.

— Mick Hucknall

Growing up in Mississippi, the first song that I ever remember hearing, that captivated my mind and transported me from my bedroom…

— Marty Stuart

“The fact indeed that music—like love, electricity and other elemental forces—cannot be defined is its special glory. It is a peculiar, mysterious…

— Walter Raymond Spalding

“Song on Applying War Paint: At the center of the earth I stand, Behold me! At the wind center I stand, Behold…

— Frances Densmore

But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at…

— James Young

Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then…

— Win Butler

I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio…

— Ronnie Milsap

There arent any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So youre just…

— Guy Clark

I think [game music] is something that should last with the player. It's interesting because it can't just be some random music,…

— Yasunori Mitsuda

“Heavy Metal would not exist without Led Zeppelin, and if it did, it would suck.”

— Dave Grohl

That crazy moment when you're thinking about a song when you turn on the radio and it's playing.

— Cuts And Scars

A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space.

— Nikhil Banerjee

It takes so long to make a record and then it takes so long again to release it.

— Colin Greenwood

We once went to a '90s music quiz and we scored zero points. So I'm not so sure we're the '90s band…

— Ellie Rowsell

Right after my mother died, my dad and I went into the studio and he recorded a song called 'I Found You…

— John Carter Cash

Every song has a purpose, the song should either make us cry, or happy, or fall in love or make us dance.

— Devi Sri Prasad

I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.

— Tao Lin

We're proud of the position we're in in pop music - we feel like we're in a unique class.

— Russell Mael

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my…

— Charles Ives

I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.

— Bruno Mars

While I was playing football in the U.S., I learnt to play the guitar, and I'm picking it up again now.

— Alex Scott

I despise - I hate - I'm terrified of karaoke, and I wish I wasn't because everybody I know who's awesome loves…

— Ben Feldman

I have grown up singing Rabindra Sangeet and when I was 16, I started training in jazz.

— Jeet Gannguli

What makes a song last is real content from a mind that is thinking a little bit harder about certain things. A…

— Billie Eilish

My rules for a protest song are, if it's going to be hectoring or if it's going to be naive or ridiculously…

— Matty Healy

I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and…

— Britney Spears

I started singing in church with my sister Maria when I was four, and I've been pretty much singing ever since. There's…

— Imelda May

I think I enjoy Sondheim so much because of the lyrics. The lyrics, the cornucopia of options.

— Alice Ripley

Beggars can't be choosers. We don't have all the money in the world. So anyone who wants to be in the band…

— Cass McCombs

My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice,…

— Barbra Streisand

I project stronger. If you notice the old records - they're much lighter - vocally much lighter in sound than the records…

— Jimmy Scott

It really is draining: when you sing a song, it means so much to you, and every time you sing it, you…

— Benji Madden

I was looking online; many singers have sung songs for the elections, but I am not doing anything like that.

— Yo Yo Honey Singh