Song Quotes · Page 755

“You were sunrise to me rise and warm and streaming.' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew”

— Charlotte Mew

I don't think I'd be able to flat-out write a pop song and make it satisfying to me. I'm ready to make…

— Leon Bridges

Obviously, this is a huge change with the advent of Lindsey Buckingham not being a part of Fleetwood Mac. We all wish…

— Mick Fleetwood

Our relationship is like rock & rap music different genre, style, rhythm, rhyme but we simply plays the same beats of love.

— Julie

“88% of what we call good songs aren’t really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A lot of people assume that musicians are comrades by nature. It's cutthroat like anything else.

— Mike Patton

What happens with writing a song and demoing it, for me the demo always becomes the master.

— Curt Smith

Honestly, I've been excited for music ever since I was 16 years old. I'll always love the music.

— Charles Bradley

“In a clear brook With joyful haste The whimsical trout Shot past me like an arrow I play the line of the…

— Vikram Seth

I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so…

— Bruno Mars

I'm not saying you have to be totally despondent or anything, but... in New York, it's cold sometimes; it rains sometimes; even…

— Tom Odell

I think that music opens portals and doorways into unknown sectors that it takes courage to leap into. I always think that…

— Wayne Shorter

All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini…

— H. L. Mencken

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: So this winged hour is dropt…

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my…

— St. Vincent

It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist.…

— Donal Henahan

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

— Joey Ramone

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

— Nigel Kennedy

That moment in time , when someone dedicates a song to you , and you get this fluttering in your heart, and…

— Cute Friendship Love Feelings Special People

“In time of rain I come: I can sing among the flowers: I utter my song: my heart is glad. Water of…

— Jane Bierhorst

I come from a very musical family, and a songwriter, a musician, is a byproduct of the influences of his life, whether…

— Pedro Capo

I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I…

— John Lloyd Young

There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not,…

— George Brecht

I'm not here to change the music world, but I'm definitely here to show what I can do and express myself through…

— Lee DeWyze

A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.

— Quincy Jones

Coming out of 'Wretched and Divine,' I was still wanting to explore the more theatrical elements of songwriting. That led to Andy…

— Andy Biersack

I kind of tend to write a lot of songs, so it's never too hard for me to finish an album; it's…

— Soccer Mommy

The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.

— Walther von der Vogelweide

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

— Estelle

Unfortunately for humanity, I've gotten into the habit of providing my own closing music for shows by singing a song and playing…

— John Hodgman

'I Want It That Way' is a feelgood song. It's happy, easy to sing along with, and everybody knows it.

— Brian Littrell

In Kannada cinema, the introduction song for the hero is normally, as we call it, a massy commercial number.

— Arjun Janya

I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

— Jello Biafra

Music should go right through you, leave some of itself inside you, and take some of you with it when it leaves.

— Henry Threadgill

“And then we’ll go out, Piglet, and sing my song to Eeyore.” “Which song, Pooh?” “The one we’re going to sing to…

— A.A. Milne

Red, white, blue's in the skies, summer's in the air and baby, heaven's in your eyes. I'm your National Anthem.

— Lana Del Rey

At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.

— Anonymous

To me, the lyrics mean more then the music, and that's the way it should always be.

— Roger Miret

I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.

— Katherine Jenkins