Song Quotes · Page 813

Let your throat-song be clear and strong enough to make an emperor fall full-length suppliant, at the door.

— Rumi

My competition is always with my previous song. Each time I start working on a new track, I try to make it…

— Jubin Nautiyal

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didnt learn the…

— Chuck Brown

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

— Ken Burns

You're like the lyrics to my favourite song; hard to forget and always on my mind.

— Anonymous

I used to sing in a choir when I was young. My mom forced me hardbody. I was hella young, like 5…

— Goldlink

We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher…

— Valerie Simpson

Drinking and partying never appealed to me in lyrics - they don't have a lot of meaning behind them.

— Ava Max

“It was going to be embarrassing regardless of what music they chose, but Honoria didn’t have the heart to say it to…

— Julia Quinn

I've gone through too much, from beefs to divorce to my mom passing which I always expressed in my music, so there's…

— Nas

... Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's…

— Ritchie Blackmore

I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves,…

— David Friedman

I'm not a mixer. That's not what I do. I'm a songwriter, a singer, and a guitar player. You might have some…

— Myles Kennedy

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the…

— Anonymous

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that…

— Dave Haywood

If I ever hear "Power to the people" again, I'llà I just found out that John Lennon wrote that song, "All we…

— Garry Winogrand

Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe…

— Fay Weldon

Sometimes, when I listen to a song that reminds me of something that I went through, I think, 'Oh my God, I…

— Shruti Haasan

I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten minutes long, then so be it -…

— Charlie Daniels

I know my voice is very distinctive because in a room of 100 people, my voice is always picked out.

— Kevin Gates

In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our…

— Lucas Grabeel

All The Way Over' is a song for anybody on a journey to the other side of loss, grief or heartache.

— Sam Ryder

Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise.

— Squarepusher

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

— Carrie Underwood

I first started playing the violin at 6. And then at 7, it was piano. So from then it was just classical…

— Henry Lau

“When the music starts, the travel starts! You never remain where you are, you go to somewhere, and you go to everywhere.…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

— Gary Oldman

The guitar speaks for me and it says things - hopefully - for everybody that I play for.

— Julian Bream

When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.

— Eric Dolphy

A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.

— George H. W. Bush

Uncle Tom's Cabin' is another one of my favs as is 'Song & Dance Man'! I have favorites for different reasons.

— Jani Lane

I started learning the piano at the age of 4 or 5, so I think I already liked music then.

— Yoko Shimomura

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

— Brian Ferneyhough

The first time I saw Tom Petty, he was playing in a band called Mudcrutch with Tom Leadon. They were in a…

— Mike Campbell

When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune.

— Linda McCartney

I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the…

— Tommy Bolin

Your testimony doesn't mean anything if it is not your testimony. So every song that I write it happened at one point…

— Mike Willis

Rock isn't a young music anymore. I don't think it's necessarily even a youth-oriented music.

— Tom Petty

I think the world likes to pick apart different songs and play doctor with songs sometimes and make them into this big…

— Katy Perry

[My mother] is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17…

— George Michael