Song Quotes · Page 815

To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.

— Bruno Mars

It's like a god-given gift that I've actually been able to go out and sing my songs.

— Craig David

I feel like music is the great love of my life. Music is my best friend. Music is my connector.

— Bridget Everett

Oftentimes the most produced and synth-tastic songs are the ones that end up sounding the best acoustic.

— Emily Haines

I was the kid jamming out to the songs on the radio, and now there's hopefully kids out there jamming out to…

— Cole Swindell

When I was growing up everybody I knew could sing. I had no choice. I had to sing.

— Anne Murray

When it comes down to it, it's all about good music and what makes people react. That wins over everything else.

— Chris Lane

Nobody know but I got music to announce ya, Blo Blocker mama call me papa, I stay on toppa.

— Will I Am

When I go onstage, I'm going to work ...I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect…

— Boy George

Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest.…

— Elvis Costello

As an artist it's exciting to know that you've made someone's life decision after them listening to your song. To get married…

— Kelly Price

Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is…

— Brie Larson

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored…

— Emanuel Ax

I've been here so long Maybe I should runaway Try to find a summer day What is love Love is pain Love…

— Mgk

'Better Than Home,' the song, is about getting out of your hiding place and having the courage to live as loud as…

— Beth Hart

Hunting Bears is a complex song. A bear, as you know is another term for a chubby chaser. The guitar line is…

— Thom Yorke

If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

— Sylvia Plath

“Some of us hover when we weep for the other who was dying since the day they were born.”

— Lisa Loeb

Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I don't like to hear myself sing. So to get comfortable hearing myself sing, I sang in another accent.

— Lupe Fiasco

A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like…

— Nikki Sixx

A great guitar solo is really a song within a song. You can always go off and do your pageantry, but it…

— Orianthi

I listened to a battery radio, old country and pop stuff. Because I was singing all the time, my dad bought me…

— Glen Campbell

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

— Saoirse Ronan

To me there's a definite way of doing a song. If I didn't think that, I wouldn't have done it that way…

— Robin Trower

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

— Adam Duritz

It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.

— Sam Hunt

There's a part of me which feels content to leave songs in a vault not to be heard until after my death.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

— Herbie Hancock

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

— Steven Curtis Chapman

I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.

— Tom Araya

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

— John Entwistle

I quit piano and violin because it felt too rigid. It was just my thing, something I fell in love with from…

— Jillian Hervey

I got a classical piano training when I was little, and we also had music study lessons where we'd have to listen…

— Kerli

At the end of the day, if you follow the music, it'll take you on a really, really great journey

— Mike Dirnt

There were some miles-better bands than us. We were conscious that we weren't the best or the smartest, but we certainly knew…

— Shaun Ryder

If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.

— Billy Corgan

People are experimenting with streaming, with subscription services, whether it's a Spotify or a Pandora or a Rdio.

— Troy Carter

The pressure's on both hearts beat like a metronome both in sync like a justin song, feel so right but it's just…

— Drake

It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.

— Norah Jones