Song Quotes · Page 758

There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.

— Gary Cherone

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know…

— Rico Love

I usually start with the words. The rhythm of the words gives me the rhythm of the song, and then I look…

— Mel Brooks

Some songs depend heavily on the character, but, for the most part, a great song begs for reinterpretation every time it is…

— Kelli O'Hara

The way I make music is often to kind of treat instrumentation like I would a sample.

— Bonobo

Dont listen to music all the time when you wanna forget something cause a song could bring you the memeories you had.

— $Teady

Everything I do is more memorable and I understand music more than ever now. It's not a burden to me.

— Seungri

O passing angel, speed me with a song, a melody of heaven to reach my heart and rouse me to the race…

— Christina Rossetti

I had simply been inspired by Arthur Godfrey (40's) and Ukulele Ike and Cliff Edwards (20's). In there day, they were huge…

— Tiny Tim

You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's…

— Washed Out

“There are only twenty-six letters in the English alphabet. You would think there would only be so much you could do with…

— Colleen Hoover

I always thought the piano scene was kind of unique to shoot because we were actually able to film with the playback…

— Mia Wasikowska

There's this concept in urban music and lifestyle that money is everything, and I'm just not with it. If it makes money,…

— No I.D

Scarlatti [Kirkpatrick] started writing sonatas when he was 66 and the idea that he ran off 500 or so after he was…

— Frank Stella

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by…

— Charles Rosen

You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.

— John Green

The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.

— Neil Gaiman

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.

— Kylie Minogue

It was always in me to just put records out. I don't like holding on to records.

— The-Dream

I hate bands that hang around, like, 10 years too long - they're like the drunk at a party you can't get…

— Al Jourgensen

Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his…

— Julie Harris

My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he…

— Mose Allison

Musicians coming together at a time of need is one of the great traditions in this country. It's like people taking charge.

— Mark O'Connor

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

— Richard Wagner

I get the biggest kick out of it, to hear words that I wrote and chords that I wrote being sung by…

— Taylor Goldsmith

While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.

— Shawn Amos

The songs resonate with a positive hue. That's a positive thing. People feel good singing 'Sing a Song' or 'Shining Star.'

— Philip Bailey

Just to be able to release an album back in the day when I came out was very gratifying. Most people were…

— Keith Sweat

While you're learning guitar, figure out the drums, too. Not only does it help you have great timing, but it helps you…

— Nuno Bettencourt

My mother was the only musician. She played piano and she sang. She also played saxophone. And she played at home a…

— David Steward

“Dont speak of tomorrow.Let the music speak to us tonight,in a happier language than ours.”

— Wilkie Collins

My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.

— Kate Smith

Come a little closer, love the way you look tonight My eyes are the only thing I don't wanna take off of…

— Blake Shelton

I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.

— Grimes

I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What…

— Trent Reznor

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.

— Erol Alkan

I like to consider myself a narrator of sorts for my friends and I feel like songs are a perfect way to…

— Maisie Peters

I'm not the type of person who makes a lot of songs in a day just to see which one is the…

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

The fact is that 'free' in music streaming is so technically good and ubiquitous that it's stunting the growth of paid streaming.

— Jimmy Iovine