Song Quotes · Page 784

I didn't know what kind of sound I wanted to make. I didn't have no influences. I just heard my voice in…

— Blueface

There is something in the spirit of song...that fires the soul in a way that it can't otherwise be touched or fired.

— Charles W. Nibley

I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.

— Becky G

Lennon and McCartney have the best catalogue of songs ever produced. It will never be surpassed.

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.

— Paul Verlaine

Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.

— Dan Hill

When it comes to my songs I'm confident. Back in 1967, I would go to a publisher's office, and tell them they…

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

When I started college, I wrote a song 'Pee Jaun,' with a friend. I never intended to make mainstream music, but that…

— Momina Mustehsan

I don't think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it's something that comes with being in bands. I was in a…

— Bruno Mars

Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But…

— Sammy Hagar

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies…

— George Orwell

I don't want another 'It Wasn't Me.' I've been asked that question so many times. Do I want a song of that…

— Shaggy

“Music expresses both in lyrics and in tune something of the orientation of the composer and author as to what the truth…

— Robert Godfrey

I solidify his [ Riccardo Tisci] vision and what he is trying to manifest, make it a crystal or solid thing because…

— Erykah Badu

I used to have these reoccurring dreams that I played guitar, which I thought was so bizarre. It all sort of fit…

— John Petrucci

If you're living a nice lifestyle and you have no problems, you put on our record, you won't get it.

— Jeff Hanneman

I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.

— John Darnielle

There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.

— Ruth Brown

I'm definitely still putting effort into my lyrics, for them to be emotional and tell a story.

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

I studied violin since I was a boy, and my dream was to be a violinist and to play.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Inspiration comes from everywhere. Obviously, my lyrics are what I most care about in the moment and what I feel like I…

— Sophie Hawley-Weld

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

— Robyn Hitchcock

My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it.

— Tyra Banks

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

— Joe Hill

Music is a weapon of the future / music is the weapon of the progressives / music is the weapon of the…

— Fela Kuti

My mom and dad sang in the church choir. They also had a local group. They loved music, especially my dad.

— Gladys Knight

I, I love you like a love song baby...and I keep hitting re-peat-peat-peat-peat-peat.

— Selena Gomez

Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues,…

— Oscar Peterson

If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.

— Grimes

It takes a happy mood to sing a certain song. Bt a broken heart to understand the lyrics.

— Anonymous

When the record company pays you an advance, it is just that - an advance. And it's at worse rates than any…

— Duff McKagan

The sound that you're listening to is from my guitar that's named Lucille. I'm very crazy about Lucille.

— BB King

When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano…

— Mary Lou Williams

Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside.

— Andris Nelsons

I look at 'Love Child' and it's as if it was written by someone else - someone who knew what they were…

— Allegra Huston

As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects.

— Kali Uchis

“She holds up her cup of wine and starts singing a bunch of words not in English. It sounds like a foreign…

— Katherine Stevens

Somebody brought up the idea of reissuing 'Tribute To 1' because it was out of print on vinyl.

— Jim James

Music scores your life. You interact with it. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.

— Chris Milk