Song Quotes · Page 169

I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.

— Brandi Carlile

Music is my balance... center of my life.

— Mandy Patinkin

It's important to recognize when a song remains important to you.

— Finneas

I wanna kiss you in Paris I wanna hold your hand in Rome

— Madonna Ciccone

Jesus doesn't just want songs. He wants justice for the people on planet Earth.

— Louie Giglio

Hunx is kind of just, like, a really trashy punk band, honestly.

— Hunx

What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.

— Denise Levertov

“Sometimes it's not just your favorite song. It's your untold story.”

— Minhal Mehdi

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

— Anonymous

I also have to support my speaking voice by sitting in a way that engages the diaphragm in the way I would…

— Lesley Garrett

“I found in myself the heroine of every heartbreak song I had ever laughed at but played again.”

— Dorothy Allison

I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.

— Trent Reznor

I used to take amphetamines until I realized that amphetamines didn't go with being a good singer.

— Roger Daltrey

I have a fondness for words. On that note, I don't consider my lyrics to be all that great. I like to…

— Anoop Menon

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from,…

— James Mercer

“He had a clear, lyrical voice and his songs remained in her ears long after the music had ended.”

— Hiroko Sherwin

My favorite over the years is probably 'All I Have to Give.' That's probably my favorite. It's one of the first songs…

— Howie Dorough

To most people, jazz-fusion means this dreadful synthetic jazz-rock thing, this jazz-Muzak, which I detest. They also think of jazz as a…

— Allan Holdsworth

I love the creation process [of music] of it and then sharing it, so I think that was the shift. I never…

— Jillian Hervey

Upwell is one of the most terrifyingly great bands I have ever known out of Seattle. Their musicianship and songwriting is monstrous...…

— Jack Endino

Slash, Axl, Duff, Izzy and I are all brothers. Axl and his lawyers cannot take away what we had. As long as…

— Steven Adler

Film is the only art form where we feel we have to title our stuff literally. Musicians don't have to title their…

— Sean Baker

Growing up in the Bay Area, I played early on with these quartet groups who set guidelines for me. I remember the…

— Raphael Saadiq

Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't…

— Tila Tequila

The vocals are what immediately draw people in and sell the song.

— Jerry Harrison

For four years, my mum allowed only church music in the house.

— Estelle

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

— Lester Bowie

“A pornographic scene skilfully shot is no less than a melodious song.”

— Rebecca Harlem

“there’s music in everything, even defeat—but”

— Charles Bukowski

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

— David Guetta

I really didn't think about song writing.

— Adam Rich

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

— Richard Thompson

You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?

— Victor Borge

My dad was a big influence because he did a lot of music.

— Lil Skies

The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced.

— Kenny G

They got love bigger than the Beatles, wild and free like the Rolling Stones.

— Joe Diffie

How soft indeed the song of butterflies eating.

— Kiyoshi Takayama

I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.

— Jimmy Rushing

The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation.

— Henry Miller

Live long, my friend, be wise and strong. But do not from any man his song.

— Ruskin Bond