Song Quotes · Page 694

I remember people telling me that at 5 1/2 minutes long, 'Lightning Crashes' would never be a hit song.

— Ed Kowalczyk

I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you.

— Regina Spektor

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players.

— Emanuel Ax

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no…

— Robin Thicke

Everybody asks me if I sing on this record. Even my mother asks me. I am a very proud person and this…

— Rob Pilatus

I'll hear a song I love and suddenly I'm isolated from everything around me just for a nanosecond. That's a moment between…

— Charlie Sheen

I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.

— Sam Hunt

In search of love and music My whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving, diving, diving, diving, Diving down to pick…

— Joni Mitchell

“A treble clef, for example, resembles a Muscovite or Leningrader in a bulky hooded parka. A bass clef bends as simply and…

— William T. Vollmann

I've tried to tell people that the reason I don't really get excited over good press is that I don't want to…

— DJ Shadow

I just write songs, I make music, and I have several times over reinvented my life in order to keep making music…

— Doug Walters

“Youth enwrapped them; the song of Phaethon announced passion requited, love attained. But they were conscious of a love more mysterious than…

— E.M. Forster

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The problem is I'm a perfectionist, so the producer might say he's happy with my vocal take but I'll say, 'No, it…

— Nicole Scherzinger

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel…

— Ben Harper

Don't believe bands who say it's all about the fans and they want to give their music away for free. The result…

— Gene Simmons

I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song…

— John Mellencamp

The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.

— Richard Hell

I tend to like the traditional sound: three-part harmonies, guitar, and piano. I mean, a well-played guitar is a joy forever... or…

— Christine McVie

The Beatles and the Stones are for blowing your mind. The Doors are for afterward, when your mind is already gone . . .

— Gene Youngblood

I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is…

— Jimmy Heath

We can understand each other with music without words - and that's so important in these times when walls are built. In…

— Andris Nelsons

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

— Toru Takemitsu

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

— Gary Cole

I'm hoping that people will love the music, but at the same time, the most important thing to me is that I…

— Justine Skye

I'm never going to stop writing music as Porter Robinson and I see 'Virtual Self' as more of a tangent.

— Porter Robinson

As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.

— James Bay

“The fire sings to the marshmallow, and the song turns the marshmallow brown because that's what marshmallows do when they're happy.”

— Rita Leganski

My biggest worry is that we have to keep making good music, and I want to do well, but I wonder if…

— Suga

I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

— Brenda Lee

The Raspberries were together two years for one century. It was a very successful failure of a group.

— Eric Carmen

The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.

— Bruce Lee

If a new artist comes, and he doesn't have a good record label to invest in him, then there is no point.

— Guru Randhawa

I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a…

— Don Johnson

“I hope I'm always a part of you, Eden. You'll forever be a part of me. A world without you in it…

— Karina Halle

I sang my song called "In This Song." David Foster wrote the song for me. I thought that I should sing a…

— Charice Pempengco

I want there to be a piece of me in my music, you know? I genuinely believe that's the secret of all…

— Bruno Mars

Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

— Alfred Brendel

I really like the complexity of jazz, the emotional depth; I feel like there's no other music that's really as satisfying as…

— Jose James

The thing about singing for the Neighbourhood is I have to have a voice for five people and not just for myself.

— Jesse Rutherford