Song Quotes · Page 172

I always charge for my songs and never sing for free.

— Kumar Sanu

Making music, if youre a real musician, you carry on, regardless in this world.

— Joe Cocker

I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.

— Anonymous

With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically.

— Daniel Johns

In my mind, my music feels so big, a true production.

— Weyes Blood

People have no discrepancy for me or my lyrics or the song.

— Jadakiss

I love the way Pharell is laying down great drum tracks. He is a great drummer.

— Matt Cameron

To hear my songs at parties is really amazing.

— Kim Petras

Actors are almost conditioned to get their director's approval. 'I just did my song and dance, boss. What did you think?' Actors…

— Eric Johnson

In my home, we listened to music all the time. I was raised through music, and I've been interested in it since…

— Khalid

You can change your emotion immediately .. by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience.

— Rhonda Byrne

I believe words should amaze or amuse. Only then will the listener want to understand the meaning of the song.

— Gulzar

“There's so many,' Richie says. His voice is molasses slow. 'So many of us,' he says. 'Hitting. The wrong keys. Wandering against.…

— Jesmyn Ward

Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me.

— Gary Moore

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form…

— Noel Gallagher

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every…

— Charles Hazlewood

My dad is actually an amazing guitarist, and he always had an incredible record collection, which is how I discovered things like…

— Orianthi

It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing…

— Jamila Woods

People don’t realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your heart.” J. Krishnamurti.…

— Deepak Chopra

“This was where she belonged with Nur, right here, here in his songs. Here within the lyrics they were intimate, caught in…

— Leila Aboulela

One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want…

— Andrew Fletcher

There's a weighing kind of overemphasis on sexuality, which disempowers music generally, because it silences all the other voices; it makes music…

— Sinead O'Connor

Music doth extenuate fears furies appeaseth cruelty abateth heaviness and to such as are wakeful it causeth quiet rest; it cures all…

— Cassiodorus

I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I…

— Loudon Wainwright III

When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

— Laura Marling

I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

— Daniel Boulud

“Read the lyrics to N. Young's Harvest Moon and you'll know.”

— Anonymous

I found it easier to make up songs than to learn other people's songs.

— John Prine

Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.

— David Gilmour

I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.

— Robyn Hitchcock

“If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.

— Trevor Dunn

The theme song of 'Doug' was my ringtone once for literally a year.

— Kimiko Glenn

They [The Beatles] were the first band to not have a lead singer in the band.

— Lemmy Kilmister

“I would be an organ donor, but I’d much rather donate a piano.”

— Jarod Kintz

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

— Ken Burns

Music is what I breathe, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

— Miley Cyrus

My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff.

— James Mercer

Banjos are funny instruments. They can get pretty irritating.

— Winston Marshall

Ive been playing music since I was born.

— Chord Overstreet