Song Quotes · Page 768

“It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sing it." [On The Heart of the Matter ,…

— Don Henley

Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?

— Obie Trice

“The gramophone keeps reiterating a statement about life with which I do not agree.”

— Christopher Isherwood

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

— Kristin Kreuk

I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.

— Taylor Swift

Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do

— Anonymous

I think God gave me an inner dictionary. If you play the right music that my heart loves, lyrics just come right…

— Charles Bradley

The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

I can tell what inspired the songs for me, or what I was thinking and feeling at the time. But I don't…

— Nicholas Thorburn

I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship…

— Yolanda Adams

I can make a record with six-part string arrangements and the best musicians in the world and have it be not genuine.…

— Julien Baker

“Displaced Person’s Song If you see a train this evening, Far away, against the sky, Lie down in your woolen blanket, Sleep…

— Thomas Pynchon

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about…

— Alan Jackson

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about…

— David Bowie

I truly believed that tonight would never happen, that I would never sing these songs to you again. But then I'm a…

— George Michael

I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound that's there. But when…

— Tom Petty

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, thats a reflection of another character.

— Riz Ahmed

I sort of just wrote the songs, the way I wanted to write them, sing them the way I wanted to sing…

— Johnny Reid

Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.

— Mickey Hart

Music is my favorite part of life but when you are around life becomes even more melodious. You are a sweet tune…

— Anonymous

I've always been talented, always been able to sing or remember a song after hearing it one time.

— J.I.D

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

— Anonymous

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

— Anonymous

It feels incredible to find the type of love I've been writing songs about all these years!

— Jimmie Allen

I did a lot singing for one album for Crosby, Stills & Nash, and at the time, they didn't want anyone to…

— Timothy B. Schmit

Why are we importing all these highbrow plays like 'Amadeus'? I could have told you Mozart was a jerk for nothing.

— Ian Shoales

To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost…

— Margaret Millar

Around the house my parents played a lot of R&B and soul; Stevie Wonder, Mary J. Blige and Kirk Franklin.

— Griff

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

— Bill Bruford

In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.

— Lin Brehmer

I don't know, I just got a feeling about her. You know when a song comes on and you just gotta dance?

— Ryan Gosling

There are times, like with Dire Straits, where you can get as close as you can be to being good at your…

— Taylor Goldsmith

There are definitely some songs more than others where I feel like I'm reliving a moment in time.

— Maisie Peters

I'll listen to the same song on repeat for hours because I'm so in love with it, then I can never listen…

— Anonymous

The song 'Stick'? That needed to be chunky and sexy. It's human. It's human to be the girl in 'Stick' and feel…

— Banks

I think that I can't help but put my personal pain in my music because there's a lot of it. That's my…

— Bibi Bourelly

I'm really into Sweet 75 right now, and I dig playing Nirvana, don't get me wrong. Even if Kurt never died, more…

— Krist Novoselic

I'm not known as a singer, but in life I like to do things that are a bit beyond my reach to…

— George Hamilton

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

— Peter Steele

Early on in my career, I was really into the volume pedal techniques that somebody like Steve Howe or Alex Lifeson would…

— John Petrucci