Song Quotes · Page 174

My singing... I'll just say it simple as possible: it's just godly.

— Michael Jackson

I trained a bit in music because of my brother, who is a musician.

— Richa Chadha

Punjabis are the only people keeping non-film music alive in a big way.

— Amaal Mallik

Usually for the tour, there's about 80 songs in our brain.

— David Bryan

I learnt violin at school and hated it. I wish I'd learnt guitar or piano.

— Declan Donnelly

I just try to create music from an honest place.

— Jimmie Allen

Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.

— Ziggy Marley

I was a very observant child. Almost anything could become a song to me.

— Curtis Mayfield

It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.

— Dimebag Darrell

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays…

— B. B. King

A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort.

— Mason Cooley

I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.

— Leontyne Price

Sufis were always spreading love with their music, and if some kind of extremism is a threat to it, it is a…

— Adnan Sami

That's just the music industry. They always want you to write something like the one that was popular.

— Benji Madden

Music is such a balm. Always has been. It's such a heartbeat, like blood thrumming through the womb. That's why music appeals…

— Al Jarreau

To produce a proper album, you have to be in the studio and collaborate with all your singers. It takes a lot…

— Hardwell

Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Music is the exact opposite of anxiety. It's there to relieve anxiety, to calm you down. And to just get the noise…

— Neal Barnard

When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so…

— Tom DeLonge

“Third, hear our loss of focus on the gospel in our songs. This is no comment on musical styles and tastes, but…

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

Sometimes you have really meaningful deep sexual experiences or you experience attraction but it may be fleeting or may it be something…

— Adam Levine

There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers…

— Van Morrison

Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and…

— Zooey Deschanel

“Why is there so much meaningless, waste of time music out there these days? I'm no snob. I know I'm right about…

— Henry Rollins

I've grown as an artist, as a person, as a songwriter.

— Maisie Peters

Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm.

— Alan Menken

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

— J. K. Rowling

Once you're signed to a label you compromise.

— Talib Kweli

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

— Joanna Newsom

I think 'I'm in You' was lackluster and way too light.

— Peter Frampton

We're just not going anywhere. Our songs are here to stay.

— Pepa

Everyone is my equal, and that is transferred to my music.

— Jose Feliciano

My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions,

— Kurt Cobain

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

— George Gershwin

“Yet, happy are the pure of heart for they have known the music.”

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

It's so refreshing to just play straight-ahead music with lots of twists.

— Mike Portnoy

I always take notes on my phone of lyric ideas.

— Benee

Behind every girls favorite song, is an untold story.

— Babloo

Memories are like tunes we've listen to, as it becomes the melody we remember.

— Anonymous

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

— Michel Legrand