Song Quotes · Page 175

When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

— Rosanne Cash

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.

— Mahalia Jackson

Sometimes I'm sad and mostly I like sad songs.

— Nico

Generally we just play music when we feel like it.

— Hope Sandoval

The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood

— Carl Sagan

I emotionally invest myself in every song!

— Bhushan Kumar

My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.

— Paolo Nutini

I like all of my songs. My wife, however, likes me singing the soulful ballads.

— KK

All the songs are good, but 'Press Your Number' was fixed to be my favorite song from the beginning.

— Lee Tae-min

There is nothing like the buzz of singing one of your songs during a show and hearing your fans singing with you.

— Dove Cameron

Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.

— Yann Tiersen

When we make a record, we don't discuss how we are planning on doing it. It's a very natural and organic growth.

— Davey Havok

“Sexuality and anger are often written with the same note, but never on the same line, because they don’t make music together.”

— Sibyl von der Schulenburg

Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical…music is under two signs, the stars and the wine

— Edgard Varese

It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can…

— Bill Frisell

“I've been trying to start a garage band for over a decade now, but father won't move his car.”

— Jarod Kintz

Future's Pluto is my favorite album of the year. It's so emo. Future is the number one dude I'd love to produce…

— Ryan Hemsworth

I don't like the idea of pre-meditated music. Things like free-styling, the element of surprise - I think people need to scale…

— Fabolous

Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common…

— George Bernard Shaw

Music springs from and is replenished by a hidden source which lies outside the world or reality. Music ever spoke to me…

— Bruno Walter

About 50 percent of the songs on the radio are like, 'Live like tomorrow doesn't exist. Like it's my birthday. Like it's…

— Sia

The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We…

— Jack Antonoff

Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul…

— Langston Hughes

We have songs and we have smiles; that is the beauty of 3HO. We have many, many songs and we have very,…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

I've always been a sucker for a truck driving song.

— Marty Stuart

The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.

— Khalil Gibran

Singing is really where I got my start in church.

— Danny Gokey

I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have.

— Joss Stone

It's not a nice thing to have a song written about you.

— Eliot Sumner

Every time I write a song my approach changes.

— Shawn Mendes

Music is the medium. Words merely enhance the composition.

— K. J. Yesudas

I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.

— Ernie Isley

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

— John Erskine

When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.

— Anonymous

I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.

— Greg Saunier

I know not every song has to be a powerful message.

— Kacey Musgraves

It's not We're an awesome band.' The bottom line is, we're just very fortunate.

— Tony Kanal

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

— Plato

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

— Joanna Newsom

Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.

— Niall Horan