Song Quotes · Page 781

I'm just growing so quickly, so my songs are quickly changing on me. But it's fine. I love them for what they…

— Shawn Mendes

[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can…

— Stewart Copeland

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

— Paul McCartney

Everyone knows the power of a song and it takes you back to that place. Just that power of words can heal.

— Jimmy Wayne

My fingers are crossed for 'Dekh Lena.' I believe it has shaped very beautifully and also visually the song looks fabulous.

— Tulsi Kumar

I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Music calms the soul and improves the plasticity, flexibility, and sensitivity of the perceptual world.”

— Debasish Mridha

I always get pissed that I can't make my voice sound like someone from the 50s who had a very girly, innocent…

— Bethany Cosentino

I Repent of ever having recorded one single song, and ever having performed one concert, if my Music, and more importantly, my…

— Keith Green

... what is so important is that you play for the artist and for the record and for the song ... everything…

— James Burton

If it weren't for Criminal Records, Wax-n-facts and other indie record stores I could have only sold my CD's at my shows…

— Shawn Mullins

I always have on my headphones to block out all of the other distractions and I'm just focused on doing the best…

— Michael Phelps

I've been playing piano my whole life but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made really. Try to imagine if…

— Caio Fonseca

I had written the song 'aaza aaza Shamiyane ke tale... ' for Ghai's film 'Yuvvraj' but he felt the song did not…

— Gulzar

So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the…

— Mike Wilson

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Or so the poet…

— Richard Stidham

There's always a melody running around in my mind and my brain; and I'm really thankful for it.

— John Debney

I'm not a fitness model; I'm just a singer. If people focus on that, that's what I care about.

— Alessia Cara

I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

— Marianne Faithfull

My music is about all these things that happen to you while growing up in search for some kind of truth.

— MO

Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air.

— Frank Zappa

“she repaid us by giving life the quality that but for her was only to be found in music ”

— Rebecca West

If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to…

— Lou Gramm

If you're in a garage band, it's about being better than the band in the next-door garage. But in the folk tradition,…

— Johnny Flynn

People think I left The Band and spoiled this whole thing, and that's not what happened. Nobody broke up The Band. Nobody…

— Robbie Robertson

I'm glad I took that time to work really hard on the music. I feel the effects of that now in a…

— Kenny Chesney

“Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms?”

— Toru Takemitsu

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.

— Robyn Hitchcock

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong;…

— Dorothy Parker

I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could…

— Loudon Wainwright III

Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It's real singing, and it's what the Kop is…

— Bill Shankly

When it comes to making an album I take that very seriously. I am meticulous, overworked. That's my time to put everything…

— Dave Grohl

I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was…

— Robbie Robertson

I'll never put out some super-dumbed-down music. It'll always have some substance to it.

— Dave East

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.

— Gustave Flaubert

I absolutely love music. Music is so powerful and can set the tone and change your mood.

— Hilary Knight

I cannot stand in one place and sing for three hours. By nature, I like to make things lively.

— Asha Bhosle

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.

— A. R. Rahman

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family. Lawrence Welk

— Lawrence Welk

We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think…

— Barry White