Song Quotes · Page 688

“His lullaby was an instant success not because it was incomparably original, but because it offered a familiar melody in an original…

— Derek Thompson

Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore.

— Jimmy Iovine

Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level…

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

— Corita Kent

Play piano each morning, walk a mile, speak of what was going down with honesty and style.

— Chicago (Band

It's a trip now that other bands are saying that they look up to us. In my mind, I'm still 18 years…

— Johnny Christ

You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.

— Joe Perry

“Maybe all hospitals should import groups of rabble-rousing punk rockers to kick-start the languishing patients’ hearts.”

— Gayle Forman

That's very hard because there's three of them that mean a LOT to me equally. 'Lissie's Heart Murmur' was one of the…

— Theresa Wayman

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So…

— Stephen King

For me, in songwriting, I have a route I can take. Maybe there's some forks, I can go this way, this way.…

— Dave Matthews

“The Qu'ran is God's song, not ours, not even Muhammad's. To allow such a song to pass through one's body, however imperfectly,…

— George Dardess

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of…

— Joan Baez

I'm very grateful for being in this band, but there are only five people who know what it's like to be in…

— Fab Moretti

“Aren’t all the best songs about a girl? It doesn’t matter if it’s metal, if it’s country, if it’s blues or rock…

— Jay Crownover

I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that…

— Elvis Costello

I really wish I could sing so I could front a band, because that would be a dream come true, totally. I…

— Charisma Carpenter

I listen to music while doing homework, texting, singing, dancing, eating, talking, driving, walking, running, living, breathing...

— Jerett Parker

I don't really know what emotions are going to come out in songs when I'm writing them until I step back and…

— Borns

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

— Michel Legrand

I don't think I have a great voice, but I started singing on my tracks and they did a lot better. So…

— Tom Misch

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

— Chris Isaak

Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation…

— Ali Akbar Khan

We're better than Metallica. We're better musicians, better players. Put it this way, they can try to walk onstage after an Iron…

— Bruce Dickinson

I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.

— Adam Lambert

It's not that I always had this impeccable voice. Some 15-18 years ago, I started noticing that I could not reach higher…

— K. J. Yesudas

I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in…

— Lucinda Williams

My music's always been about life. And situations. Situation comedies, situation life.

— Johnny Paycheck

When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation…

— Denis Leary

There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.

— Nancy Sinatra

But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.

— Henry Rollins

I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.

— Jane Wiedlin

I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I…

— Stephen Sondheim

Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.

— Michelle Obama

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

— Rob Sheffield

Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Bruce Smith is a tender master of music, and beautiful lines, and complex thoughts, and fascinating wild personal and cultural references.

— Gerald Stern

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words…

— Ken Hensley

My strongest message is: 'Never give your songs away. Never sign a contract you can't get out of.'

— Steve Miller

“take everything from me, but don't take away my MUSIC, that's everything for me”

— Ohadugha Golden O