Song Quotes · Page 163

The first song I ever wrote was in grade eight.

— Daniel Caesar

American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.

— Bill Bailey

Music is my life, the lyrics are my story!

— Benjamen Kalone

Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.

— Anonymous

Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know

— Jack Bruce

I Was Told I Sound Horrible andi Should Never Sing Again.

— Anonymous

The music has generated all the techniques I use.

— Pat Martino

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

— Billy Corgan

My father was the one who used to stand up in the middle of a number to flutter his lips and make…

— Joel Grey

I wasn't worried about flash or persona... It's all about writing a good, solid song.

— Joey Jordison

“I didn’t care who you were, Jake,” she said, her voice trembling with new tears. “I fell in love with the boy…

— Sharla Lovelace

We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.

— Caroline Corr

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in…

— Siobhan Fahey

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

— Gus Van Sant

It's hard when people are expecting things from you, and all you're trying to do is write songs that you like for…

— Ryan Ross

Would you like to go to a doctor who had taken his last medical course in 1948? You have to keep changing…

— Harvey Mackay

Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn't…

— Douglas Rushkoff

The most inspiring drummer for me is Stewart Copeland from The Police. The Police are the first band I can remember really…

— Panda Bear

I never try and force-feed any song idea or lyrical message. It's really what's on my mind and what comes out of…

— Aaron Bruno

Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open-hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont…

— Michael Jackson

I've never been the big recording star I'd love to be some day. I've had lots of hits off and on through…

— Dolly Parton

Before I had my daughter I actually wanted to do something that I could put out for free, like a mixtape, but…

— Jhene Aiko

The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song,…

— Sheryl Crow

There's nothing more fun than debating and defending your taste in music.

— Judd Apatow

Everybody should start listening to love songs.

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

If critics find my songs monotonous, then I also find their opinion monotonous.

— Ankit Tiwari

You can't love music without loving the Beatles.

— Nick Cannon

I think I will never stop working with music; it has become a part of who I am.

— Martin Garrix

Music is life, I support people who are out there doing their thing

— Anonymous

I always call myself a "student" of the guitar.

— Nick Offerman

I think love could have saved Kurt Cobain.

— Sammy Hagar

I was always singing around the house, even when I was two years old.

— Alessia Cara

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

— Huey Lewis

Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?

— Anne Bronte

To be involved in the subculture of punk rock puts you in a minority.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

My mother sang very well. She proved this in her film 'High Society.'

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

— Alex Kapranos

I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.

— Linda Ronstadt

I'm a hopeless tone chaser!I love it and get into the whole thing.

— John Petrucci