Song Quotes · Page 760

If we all knew how to make that jump from good to great then I think every song would be great.

— Thomston

It's funny how students can remember the lyrics to hundreds of songs, but can't remember to put their names on their tests. . .

— Rick Sutter

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber...…

— Maya Angelou

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

— Lucinda Williams

I think a lot of that album ["Tonight" ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I…

— David Bowie

I've said before: 'If you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!' Or else we're…

— Colin Trevorrow

For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill…

— Annie E. Clark

I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production…

— Jay Reatard

“5Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. 6Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return…

— International Version

In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to…

— John Calvin

Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea…

— Mark Helprin

When I started out playing guitar and singing, I was about twelve, going on thirteen. The role models for me back then…

— Lucinda Williams

I did not know what metal was, so I never headbanged before... I used to have muscle pain that lasted three days...…

— Yui Mizuno

I feel like there isn't as much mystery to music anymore. That could be a good thing or a bad thing. There…

— Jason Wade

It depends who they are. If it's Mick (Jagger) or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard.…

— John Lennon

I have always felt compassion for the planet. Sometime I just start to get emotional. I cry because I can almost feel…

— Michael Jackson

I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician.

— Bonnie Raitt

I think I have an instinct of, like, the right record comes knocking at my door and says, 'Want to come out…

— Roisin Murphy

If you can make the best music ever but it requires bringing in a few different perspectives, I'd rather make the best…

— Frank Dukes

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many…

— Tim Cahill

Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.

— Burning Spear

I always tell people that it's so much harder to make a happy song than a sad one.

— Kristian Bush

I've always been in love with things that are throwbacks, whether it's music or stories.

— Lainey Wilson

Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my…

— Nicole Scherzinger

I don't care if I can't sing this song. This is my favorite song so therefore I will sing it.

— Kevin McCarty

Spotify wants to make consuming music simpler and at the same time pay the rights owners.

— Daniel Ek

At 13 I taught myself piano from an old song book, and Joni Mitchell's 'Both Sides Now' was the first song I learned.

— Olly Alexander

With independent music sometimes you are able to bring yourself out and your persona out, 'Tanhaai' was that song for me.

— Tulsi Kumar

Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put…

— Gary Clark, Jr

I love and respect my instrument. I was born with an instinct for what is right, the correct technique, and I have…

— Mirella Freni

The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.

— Chris Martin

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

— Ronnie Hawkins

I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want…

— Linda Ronstadt

Music says so much. Really specific but those are also real tonal things as well.

— Elijah Wood

The music that I write, I have to actually own it and live by it, which is cool. It's no problem.

— Raheem DeVaughn

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after…

— Franz Liszt

With streaming, everything is focused on singles. That means an artist's depth doesn't have the chance to shine through.

— Joe Hisaishi

This guy told me that playing the guitar is the best way to calm you down. I bet he never tried smashing…

— Nikhil Saluja

I think I have got a peculiar voice really, it neither one thing nor the other. It's not a contralto and it's…

— Vera Lynn

[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a…

— Van Morrison