Song Quotes · Page 677

A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten…

— Tori Amos

All I've ever wanted to do is master my craft. I'm a singer, and I want to be a great singer.

— Leo Sayer

'Big Love' was originally an ensemble song, but it's done now as a single guitar piece.

— Lindsey Buckingham

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

— Tori Amos

“We’ll have music, such sweet music, and wine, heh, the red will run, and we’ll put some wrongs aright.”

— George R.R. Martin

I think that when I started singing, I didn't know what I wanted to do; I only knew what I didn't want…

— Dianne Reeves

Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is…

— Carlos Santana

“You may be sure that a question which requires music for an answer can't be put into words. ”

— David Lindsay

Everything that happens to me gets put into a song. For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in…

— Taylor Swift

Most of the time a spark of beauty or truth will start a fire of a song but fires rarely produce goodness…

— Jon Foreman

We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else…

— Eddie Van Halen

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the…

— Dave Grohl

When I published my first novel, 'Slammed,' I included lyrics at the beginning of each chapter from one of my favorite bands,…

— Colleen Hoover

I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and…

— Tori Amos

Do you really think he was flirting with me?" "Let's see. He gave you candy you hate - I saw your face…

— Elizabeth Scott

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There…

— Brian Eno

That's how life is: there are peaks and valleys in life, and that's how I like to write songs.

— Mark Foster

Every eye sees its own special vision; every ear hears a most different song. In each man's troubled heart, and incision would…

— Dean Koontz

I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to…

— Don Henley

O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after…

— John Keats

I hate it when I'm singing a song and someone joins in! Please, this isn't Glee!

— Anonymous

Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however,…

— Alfred Einstein

My hope is that no matter your mood there is [on a Joyride albom] a song on there that speaks to you.

— Tinashe

I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a…

— Craig Finn

I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

— Dorothy Fields

One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think the singer in Pearl Jam should eat some Pearl Jam! He cannot sing to save his life! And the guitar…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

“If I listened to all the noise in the world I would have many standards to conform to But the zeal to…

— Priscilla Koranteng

Well, you know, back then there wasn't many albums, it was the singles. You sold singles.

— Mel Tillis

Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.

— Henry Louis Gates

A musician carries the music within him. He needs no specific instrument. he is the music.

— Marlo Morgan

The packaging has to really sell the product today, because kids can go out and buy a CD and then 10 kids…

— Anonymous

People are getting ready for music that makes them feel happy again rather than being depressed at the way the world is…

— Estelle

You do [jazz] because you love it and hope many some others may as well. You do this because you need it.

— Jon Gordon

Everybody sing like it's the last song you will ever sing. everybody live like it's the last day you will ever see.

— Melchor Lim

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

— August Wilson

“The glances musicians exchange, when music is effortless, that was what he wanted from Milly, that intimacy.”

— David Mitchell

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

— Sun Ra

I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.

— Brian Molko

We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.

— Barry White