Song Quotes · Page 176

“And I was reminded once again how a song really can change the world.”

— Mark Peter Hughes

Sweet music, and your secret heart. Both have the healing grace.

— Jon Anderson

I would have given my right arm to have been a pianist.

— Bobby Robson

Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

I don't make grandiose, prophetic statements in my songs.

— Billy Squier

One of my favorite things to do is play guitar with my dad, who taught me.

— Drew Scott

All my songs are things that have happened to me.

— Mabel

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

— Esperanza Spalding

Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.

— Isaac Hanson

Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.

— Zac Goldsmith

My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But…

— Analeigh Tipton

If singing a couple of songs in a benefit will help keep the Festival alive and known, well, how can I say…

— Stephanie D'Abruzzo

Every single song I write has to feel like it has a beginning, middle, and end, like a movie or a short…

— Grace Potter

People don't have to understand a language to understand the emotion and sentiment behind a song.

— Laura Jane Grace

Sometimes, you sit down to write a song, you don't realize what it's going to mean to somebody other than yourself.

— Luke Combs

'Bright Star' has been designed and the songs have been formulated around the way that I sing. That is the biggest gift…

— Carmen Cusack

The music world has taken a huge dump, so maybe there's a connection. So if Apple decided to do this, maybe they…

— Neil Young

“I was surrounded by silence and Tristan was music. So much music. All the time. Streaming in my eardrums 24-7. Serenading me…

— Jessica Brody

To be honest, making albums is really never easy. It's always a bit excruciating because there's always this fight to make it…

— Jesse Harris

There's not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going…

— Moby

Fashion costs money, but songs are free. You can write them for free and you can sing them for free and they…

— Scott McClanahan

On the first day of May the people of the crofter townland are up betimes and busy as bees about to swarm.…

— Alexander Carmichael

So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue Anyway, the thing…

— Elton John

It's not just women in film, 18-year-old girls feel pressure to do preventative injecting. I see someone's face, someone's body who has…

— Cate Blanchett

I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

— Carice van Houten

Baby you a song, you make me wanna roll my windows down and cruze.

— Anonymous

There are three degrees of comparison: stupido, stupidissimo, and tenore.

— Pietro Mascagni

I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.

— Mary Steenburgen

Music runs the world, you stop it you die.

— Collin Mitchell

I write songs every day, but I don't necessarily get to record them.

— Kevin Parker

I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

— Derek Bailey

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

— Van Morrison

I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.

— Florence Welch

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.

— Diplo

I sing in the reaches. We'll see what we find

— Moby

Mophonics is kind of a creative home for me.

— Mark Foster

The most visceral expression of emotion in music.

— Milo Aukerman

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

— Peter Steele

The more negative hype we get, the more records we sell, know what I'm saying?

— Scarface

The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.

— Randy Owen