Song Quotes · Page 205

It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.

— David Sylvian

I started having a lot of problems with my voice in my mid-30s.

— Polly Bergen

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

— Bob Dylan

Who among us has not sought peace in a song?

— Victor Hugo

Metal fans are the most hard-core, loyal fans.

— Wayne Static

I think One Direction are the biggest band in the world, their songs are great,

— Chris Martin

I'd love it if one of my songs became a hit.

— Aesop Rock

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.

— Anonymous

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

— Brandi Carlile

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

— Les Baxter

The first time I heard rock'n'roll on a big sound system would have been at a fairground at the seaside. That's a…

— John Cooper Clarke

I want to make sure I continue to make good music that my mom and everybody around me can be proud of.

— Ruben Studdard

I never want to write the same song twice as it's super important to me, I never want to make a safe…

— Ruel

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

— Frank Zappa

I'm changing my flow up so much on every song that you're not going to be able to compare me to nobody…

— Tiffany Foxx

People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the average person can't…

— Todd Rundgren

So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought…

— Vince Gill

I use are provisional terms, and they usually put any proper nouns in critical distance. I'm in a tradition of people who…

— Vijay Iyer

My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've…

— Bruno Mars

What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of…

— A. C. Benson

I don't think I'll ever do a record that's just the same song over and over again because I'd like to think…

— Lzzy Hale

Generally, if you could picture a bunch of rock and roll momentum behind a song and it was particularly melodious, maybe the…

— Dan Bejar

Everything I do, I do it because it's me. At the end of the day, I only know how to be me.…

— Bow Wow

When you make a record, you probably are not going to hit exactly what you were aiming for. You also have to…

— Jonathan Meiburg

I was practically raised with Christmas music.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.

— Damon Albarn

Music, internet, food and sleep are important parts of my life

— Anonymous

God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

His hooves pound the beat, your heart sings the song.

— Jerry Shulman

I'm not really comfortable with being on songs with cats I don't really know.

— Freddie Gibbs

The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'

— Olly Murs

Sex, death and war. And justice. There's no shortage of lyrics there.

— Lemmy Kilmister

Some days when I start to talk, my voice isnt strong. But then it warms up.

— Jack Klugman

I treat my songs like my kids, that's how much I cherish my music.

— Rich Homie Quan

Play and write music the way you want the world to be.

— Wayne Shorter

A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

— Taylor Hanson

Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible.

— Anonymous

If you like music you like silence actually.

— David Hockney

Everything that I'm doing, it's like a future jazz, future trap house movement.

— Masego

I feel the most centered in my life when I'm performing a song.

— Ruston Kelly