Song Quotes · Page 109

Thoes who wish to sing will always find a song

— Ritu Ghatourey

Being in a rock band is just an excuse not to get a job

— Billy Corgan

I love any opportunity I have to make music.

— Barry Manilow

My most favourite song is 'Aave re hichki.'

— Gulzar

But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.

— Anne Lamott

Jazz is a state of mind. There's no boundaries.

— Robert Glasper

It's hard for a country performer to make a living in a Beatles society.

— Marty Stuart

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

— William Hague

'My Church' - that was really the tipping point of me going from songwriter to artist.

— Maren Morris

I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the…

— Mick Ronson

It's not easy to decide what kind of music should be our title song or which direction we should go in.

— Ok Taec-yeon

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just…

— Bruno Mars

With 'City of Black & White,' I wanted a record that would make you feel good, that would sort of take you…

— Mat Kearney

I hated old people as a young kid who thought he knew anything about punk rock. I just thought old people sucked…

— Anthony Green

It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.

— Rob Sheffield

By the time a show gets on, I've written these songs and heard them over and over and over again.

— Stephen Schwartz

“Let you sing of us all by name, that we may live as long as the song." "All three hundred of you?"…

— Rosemary Sutcliff

I always tell up-and-coming DJs you have to really love what you do and find that interest to drive you. It requires…

— Steve Aoki

With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock…

— Stephen Malkmus

I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if…

— Amy Grant

My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine…

— Sean Mackin

'Sweet Dreams' is such a dark-sounding song, but it's about not taking anything for granted; share yourself with others after you have…

— Angel Olsen

After I wrote 'The Best Of Times' for my dad and after I completed the '12 Steps Suite' with Dream Theater, I…

— Mike Portnoy

The poems in Helena Mesa’s virtuosic first book, Horse Dance Underwater, run with such speed, verve, and alacrity they leave you breathless,…

— Michael Collier

On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.

— Brian May

For me, a band like Gojira brings something really cool and new to the table.

— M. Shadows

The Beatles gave me everything. Especially Paul McCartney. I adore him.

— Ozzy Osbourne

Only because uplifted in song, was I able to endure the blaze of the dawn.

— George MacDonald

Everything I do got that bounce to it, that addictive, repetitive sound.

— Tay Keith

My music is being condemned strictly for publicity and votes.

— Bushwick Bill

I feel like some artists need a record label, and some don't.

— Freddie Gibbs

“All Bach's last movements are like the running of a sewing machine. (on Bach)”

— Arnold Bax

You have to be kind of sensitive to be in rock and roll.

— Kemp Muhl

Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

— Vanessa Carlton

You can realign people's physical chemistry with sound.

— Bob Mould

Music, that's my passion. That's what I love.

— Scarface

“If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know." Louis Armstrong”

— Louis Armstrong

There's no 'Trio' or 'Duo.' Thats all over now. This year there's only 'Single'

— Anonymous

If a song feels good to me, it's not very difficult to make it my own.

— Dianne Reeves

I try to write my own music. It's a good way of de-stressing.

— Alexandra Daddario