Song Quotes · Page 824

The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.

— Patti Page

“Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or…

— Robin Hobb

I write lyrics. putting words and melodies to my songs. That's a real challenge, I take it on vigorously.

— Gord Downie

For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being,…

— Leontyne Price

Now no one will listen to songs. The prophesied days have begun. Latest poem of mine, the world has lost its wonder,…

— Anna Akhmatova

You can't really write a full album about your missus. She'll start getting the wrong idea and start thinking I like her.

— Noel Gallagher

As a musician, language is almost like another instrument. Every word has a sound.

— Rosalia

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

— Tom Conti

People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A.…

— Lou Reed

When I first started writing songs, I was probably about ten or twelve years old, and the first thing you think as…

— Michael Bacon

Music will inevitably get you into Philosophy, and once you logically see that through, will end up getting you into Theology. Once…

— Gino Vannelli

It's great having Bruce Springsteen on my show. We have so much in common! We're both from New Jersey, just from different…

— Jon Stewart

Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people listen to Beethoven…

— Simon Rattle

The best musicians in the world were raised on the same kind of music I was raised on and that is black,…

— Ted Nugent

Every song youre trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that Im really…

— Rodney Atkins

Basically, a band's first record is them coming together and really learning everything, and then, after they're on the road and really…

— Vinnie Paul

I play the piano when I'm alone at home in the evening. Sometimes for friends when we are together, singing together, to…

— Ralph Hasenhuttl

I'm singing these songs about death and stuff. I see somebody who's, like, in their sixties or seventies at the show, and…

— Phil Elverum

As I was not a good singer - I have started to sing. And because no one could write an appropriate song…

— Verka Serduchka

I get really angsty if I've got songs building up and I haven't gotten them recorded.

— Ben Howard

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only…

— Billy Higgins

If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon.

— King Khan

I'm a musician. I play harmonica for relaxation. A good way to relax and entertain people. An excellent way to have fun.

— Stan Musial

If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do…

— Neil Diamond

That awkward moment when you know the full lyrics of over 100 songs, but can't answer 10 questions of your test...

— Anonymous

I tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore.

— Sturgill Simpson

Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.

— Dimebag Darrell

You can get people to follow very intricate pathways of musical information, but it feels like a nursery rhyme or a children's…

— Jacob Collier

If anyone saw Fall Out Boy's first 400 shows, we were the worst band of all time.

— Pete Wentz

Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?

— John Lennon

In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my…

— Kevin Parker

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

— David Bowie

We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our…

— Abbey Lincoln

I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

— Tori Amos

Singing is still the important thing to me. I love singing. I wouldn't be putting myself through all this if I didn't.

— Tevin Campbell

I hear The Tears of a Clown I hate that song. I always feel like they talking to me when it comes…

— Dirty Money

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

— Branford Marsalis

Music is a business. You ain't gonna record with someone if it's not business, if it ain't gonna get you no money.

— Anuel AA

You've got Chris Stapleton doing what he's doing, and Sam Hunt, Florida Georgia Line... Everyone has their own lane, and we felt…

— Chris Lane

Music helps many to channelize energy into creating beautiful things and push boundaries.

— Santhosh Narayanan