Song Quotes · Page 816

I've got a dream too, but it's about singing and dancing and making people happy. That's the kind of dream that gets…

— Kermit The Frog

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

— Trisha Yearwood

If you drop a phonograph needle on Brasky's nipple, it plays the Beach Boys Pet Sounds.

— Bill Brasky

It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real.

— Kanye West

I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.

— Liz Phair

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

— Mary J. Blige

You can write a million songs that are 'good', but they just aren't good enough.

— Alexa Borden

So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody…

— Adam Lambert

Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material…

— Matisyahu

The idea of making music from an imaginary culture was to give ourselves a set of restrictions and parameters within which to…

— David Byrne

I really consider myself fortunate to have been of age during the musical revolution that came in the form of the Beatles.…

— Todd Rundgren

The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the…

— Kathryn Stockett

I do feel songwriting is a bit of its own creature and the writerliness of it...it's freeing. It's good for people who…

— Mirah

If someone says to me that 'Horizon' is an anti-feminist anthem, I have to tell them, 'No, that's not right.' But I'm…

— Aldous Harding

If you come in like a typical modern drummer who is used to playing only with tricks and double kick and, like,…

— Tobias Forge

Celine Dion is one of my heroes. The first song I learned was "My Heart Will Go On." And we sang "Because…

— Charice Pempengco

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

— Benmont Tench

'Lauder' is a favorite because the name of the song is a friend of mine who passed away.

— J.I.D

I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a…

— Serj Tankian

I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.

— David Bowie

“Constipation ran Presley's life. Even his famous motto TCB— 'Taking Care of Business'— sounds like a reference to bathroom matters.”

— Mary Roach

My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.

— Ofra Haza

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.

— Kurt Masur

I really love the piano and I feel very fortunate that I am able to play and travel all over the world…

— McCoy Tyner

The thing is, my life is a country song. I don't need to be manufactured, and I don't need anyone to tell…

— Kellie Pickler

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

— Larry Wilmore

Songwriting was always my 'plan B'. I didn't even know that songwriting was a job until my late teens!

— Keri Hilson

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE…

— David Lynch

I'm big fans of all those musicians, B.B. King, Mick Jagger - they're all on my iPod.

— Trombone Shorty

Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.

— Thomas Beecham

You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.

— Dolly Parton

I'm a musician, I always was a musician, and now I've got a song on the radio, so I'm definitely a musician.

— Tulisa

I love the Sex Pistols. I'm a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.

— Bruno Mars

I think what I do really well is that I can 'chameleon' myself into many styles at a very fast pace, sometimes…

— Joe Bonamassa

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

— Agnes Obel

If you leave songs sitting around, you do yourself a disservice. You have to put them out there.

— LP

A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

— Rob Sheffield

“Music can provide us the emotional vitamins that we can't get from food; without it, the life would be incomplete.”

— John Taskinsoy

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

— Marion Cotillard

It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.

— Prince Philip