Song Quotes · Page 674

Look for things marked positive to you, like songs, because all dem things are right.

— Bob Marley

That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time…

— A. R. Rahman

I really feel like I've nailed songwriting. It's my specialty; it's what I'm good at.

— Sia

By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart.

— Opal Whiteley

My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.

— Christine McVie

Edgar Meyer's violin concerto was the first piece of contemporary music I worked on in any depth. I was 18 or 19.

— Hilary Hahn

I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.

— Haley Bennett

“A good guitarist will always try to get the best out of the instrument that they are holding in their hands. The…

— André van Eck

Now we know that, the way contracts are set up, it's not really made for artists to get rich from selling records…

— Lisa Lopes

It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song,…

— Stevie Nicks

[Manhattan School Of Music] were kind of just getting the jazz program up and going when I first started there. I was…

— Jon Gordon

My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do…

— Wendy O. Williams

I lived in London in 1965 and 1972. I love it there and I'm always very creative in that vibe. Would love…

— Creed Bratton

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external,…

— Oliver Sacks

Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor;…

— Robert Greenberg

You are always kind of suspicious that there's a better life out there for you no matter what it is - and…

— Ryan Jarman

The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

— Alicia Keys

I really don't want to put more than a couple of records out a year, and I think that makes sense -…

— Mike Patton

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

— Len Cariou

It’s a brilliant song! C’mon…’Every day is like survival. You’re my lover, not my rival.’ What could be more meaningful than that?…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take…

— Anonymous

“The impact of a music minister is to the degree that he/she is able to stay with God.”

— Daniel Willson Jiya

Nothing's handed to you on a silver platter. Everything takes work, no matter how many records you put out.

— Lights

I always love a song about London or about places. I think Britain could do with more of them; America is so…

— Viv Albertine

“Those wonderful coincidences of sound and sense between one language and another were also at work, giving each new term an alluring…

— Robert Kaplan

My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too.…

— Ann Hood

I'm not looking for career attention, for more success, more money. I'm just singing songs I chose because I love them.

— Celine Dion

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.

— Angel Olsen

Whenever I like a new song, I play it on loop and dance to it. That's my therapy.

— Alia Bhatt

Music is the love of my life. it's a total escape from reality. music transports you to another place, some place unexpected…

— Idk

It ( In My Life ) was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life… up until…

— John Lennon

No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta…

— Suzanne Collins

I've always had a song; but the moment that I made the decision to allow God to be the song writer my…

— Sashauni Aaeliyae

Heavy metal and mullets it's how we were raised. Maiden and priest were the gods that we praised

— Sum 41

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

— Mose Allison

The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on…

— Camila Cabello

My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.

— Peter Tosh

With some people, that love of music is just buried in them. It's so deep in them that they would play for…

— Kim Basinger

It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And…

— Elvis Costello

I miss singing every day. I can't sing anymore. My voice doesn't work. I have Parkinson's disease, and it sometimes takes my…

— Linda Ronstadt