Song Quotes · Page 105

Joan Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins - that was my mom's era.

— Cheyenne Jackson

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

— Bob Dylan

Our music is just perfect for us because we make it just how we want to her it.

— Kings Of Leon

Gaah you need to listen to this song!!! Im in loveee !

— Trey Songz

Singing isn't always about being on key; it's about emotionality.

— Chris Robinson

I think that being precious and rock and roll should never go together.

— Grace Potter

The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player.

— Jimmy Iovine

To be a musician, you have to be honest... to be honest... to be honest.

— Bobby McFerrin

My dad Peter, who was my roadie when I was starting out, had loads of confidence but couldn't sing.

— Jane McDonald

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.

— Elton John

I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed.

— Artur Schnabel

Life Is A Song We Play Each Day. For Every Mistake We Make, The Song Goes Out Of Tune. But Keep On…

— Pacifiersucker

I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake…

— Sade Adu

In maybe third grade, I kept asking my parents for piano lessons, and eventually I got them. It turned out I wasn't…

— Alex G

I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and…

— Robyn

I kind of feel that as soon as you've played a song to one other person, then it's something you share together.

— Ben Howard

I found that people really were reaching out to someone to spill their guts to so I did the same thing lyrically…

— Hayley Williams

It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't…

— Olly Murs

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and…

— Mac Davis

My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring…

— Stan Getz

I feel like the internet also affects originality a lot, because music is so easily shared nowadays, it seems like artists have…

— Mr. Carmack

Benny Carter came up to me and said to me, "You know, in the whole history of the alto, I think Phil…

— Jon Gordon

I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love songs cuz I…

— Brie Larson

The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added…

— Aoife O'Donovan

I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.

— Edgar Meyer

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

— Ikue Mori

“I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.”

— Henry Miller

My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.

— Bob Dylan

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

— Anonymous

My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.

— Robin Thicke

I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.

— Ahmet Ertegun

I really wish I could play the piano really well without having to practice.

— Christopher Miller

When I was 13, I posted a video of myself singing a Bruno Mars song on YouTube.

— Madison Beer

“The music of life would be mute if the chords of memory were snapped asunder.”

— Jerome K. Jerome

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.

— Jason Statham

I'm always hearing a song saying beam me up to where Scotty you piece of shit.

— Kevin McCarty

Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.

— Yip Harburg

Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere.

— Rumi

The only rule of a musical is that it must maintain its buoyancy.

— George C. Wolfe

I really respect Zakk Wylde's guitar playing and his compulsive work ethic.

— Dimebag Darrell