Song Quotes · Page 807

I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.

— Kim Gordon

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

— Alicia Keys

I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense.

— Paul Lansky

“Heaven is all around us. All we need is perception; to extol the melodies of Nature's orchestra.”

— Anurag Shourie

Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, and helped change and develop my taste.

— Seymour Stein

I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

— Richie Sambora

He made me mess the song up when I looked at him... We can show the kids the tape and say, "Look,…

— Edie Brickell

If we don't put some acting in a dance song, no one would be able to dance on it.

— Asha Bhosle

Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first…

— Suzi Quatro

Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in…

— E. B. White

Every day somebody comes up to me and says, 'That song really helped me through a difficult time,' or 'That's me and…

— John Rzeznik

I am always getting ideas for song lyrics and keep a notebook handy. Nowadays, I take a laptop with me everywhere, because…

— Kou Shibasaki

When I put music on, block out the world around me and let my problems be taken care of by the noise,…

— Alexander Brisnehan

I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because…

— Boots Riley

To me music is the sound of nature in process, either the full cacophony, one thread of it, or a deliberate composition.…

— Warren Jeffs

Depending on the story, I don't feel that the music is disappearing. I feel if the story demands songs, they'll have songs.…

— Richard Sherman

There's a happy medium to everything, even with powerhouse singers. You don't have to belt it out all the time. You don't…

— Gabby Barrett

A lot of my songs are personal and about me being 16 and having guys break my heart and feeling like it's…

— Avril Lavigne

Every artist knows the songs that come out naturally, almost effortlessly, are the songs that do the most.

— Mod Sun

The streets buy records, but they don't really buy records in incredible numbers.

— Mannie Fresh

I'm here to be lovesick, broke and drifting, writing heartache songs and singing about pain and misery and depression, with a few…

— Hank Williams III

There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.

— Richard Morris

Jane Monheit is skyrocketing up the jazz charts. By next year, we won't be able to get her.

— Jane Monheit

Being in a band is being punk, no matter what. You have to dedicate your life to it.

— Charlotte Caffey

I started singing and writing songs since childhood and later started releasing my independent music.

— Guru Randhawa

I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.

— Nish Kumar

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

— Ed Kowalczyk

As we begin to face up to the holiness of God, our lives resound with that very same anthem, here and now…

— Matt Redman

The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the…

— Jose Saramago

When I'm having a song-in-the-shower moment, I go to 'The Blessed Unrest' by Sara Bareilles.

— Jonathan Van Ness

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

— Charles Spurgeon

“A tapping foot isn’t the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.

— Chuck D

They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to…

— Steve Lacy

I believe my songs are strong enough to stand on their own - even way back then when they were recorded badly…

— Sharon Van Etten

A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.

— Babatunde Adebimpe

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

— John Lee Hooker

Every Tom, Dick and Harry is making records. They have one hit and are gone forever.

— Lorrie Morgan

A lotta years I was out there on the road pulling one-nighters. Then I got hired to sing in Sam Donahue's band…

— Frank Sinatra Jr

Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings…

— Rajneesh