Song Quotes · Page 819

I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything is possible with determination and hard work.

— Paul Stanley

Surprise, surprise! I have a band! I'm really excited that we have a song on the soundtrack of 'American Reunion' for that…

— Thomas Ian Nicholas

The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German…

— Greg Mortenson

Differences' is the biggest song in my career. It beat 'Pony,' it beat 'So Anxious' and 'None of Ur Friends Business' as…

— Ginuwine

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what…

— Duke Ellington

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played…

— Shooter Jennings

In my mind, there's this one 'super genre,' which is the only genre that matters, and that's the super genre of good…

— Chris Thile

When I was in the studio with Taylor, like, I'll never forget that. She told me, 'No matter what, just keep making…

— Ice Spice

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that…

— Keith Urban

Sometimes to move forward you have to let go. I figured that out through opening myself up, allowing people into my creative…

— Ingrid Michaelson

I always try to get back to the original source of the song. It's not always there in the sheet music, which…

— Michael Feinstein

There's no love in my songs. There's just a lot of resentment. Just bad attitude. But that's intentional, that's what I like.…

— Memory Tapes

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what…

— Tori Amos

It doesn’t feel like the end of the world. (Davyn) No, it doesn’t…(Stryker) How does the song go, ‘It’s the end of…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I come from a family in which music was important, especially German music - from I come from a family in which…

— Emmanuel Macron

have two A & R people who listen to songs for me all of the time. When they hear something that they…

— Jessica Andrews

Everybody played music and sang songs. It was real close, like a family. So you just got up there and had fun.

— Kings Of Leon

Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.

— Anonymous

“I know my breasts, small as plums, would win no blue ribbons. But in your hands they tremble and fill with song…

— Cecilia Llompart

There's been times that I did songs with people and they didn't put me on their album, I just respect their vision.

— Nav

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in.

— Gwenno

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

— John Cale

Rock & roll is dying. It’s frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now.

— Kurt Cobain

The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.

— Aldis Hodge

“There are times in life to play it safe. I'm sure you can think of several. Music is not one of them.”

— Deke Sharon

I'd tell anyone starting in music, 'don't think that you and your songs alone will get you anywhere.'

— Jack Savoretti

You either swing a band or don't swing a band and that's what's lacking today.. There aren't any guys who get back…

— Buddy Rich

In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.

— Lewis H. Lapham

Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop - nobody cares!

— Kacey Musgraves

When people ask me if I have a boyfriend, I tell them it’s my guitar because, really, it’s what I love and…

— Michelle Branch

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.

— Paul Simon

I don't just like fillers, and I never put a filler on a record. I mean, I want every song on every…

— Sara Evans

First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.

— La'Porsha Renae

I had to sing. I couldn't not sing. If it was singing to a living room full of people or an auditorium,…

— Anne Murray

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't…

— Brad Paisley

You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.

— Douglas Adams

Sometimes the best moment to sing a victory song is in the middle of your battle.

— Jeremy Riddle

It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.

— Kirk Hammett

I'm such an emotional person that when it comes to songwriting, I can click into whatever zone I need.

— Natalie Prass