Song Quotes · Page 210

I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it

— Warren Zevon

I grew up in a musical atmosphere at home.

— Armaan Malik

“You are my sunshine...'/ (the scariest song ever)/ '...my only sunshine.”

— Ryan Mecum

Heavy metal these days is what I call wimpy.

— John Waite

It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.

— Larry Mullen, Jr

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

— Pete Townshend

'Boogie Chillen',' by John Lee Hooker - that is a riff.

— Jimmy Page

I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.

— Meat Loaf

I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me…

— Jimmy Buffett

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and…

— Martin Luther

You know that song that asks, "Why do fools fall in love?"? I think the obvious answer is because they're fools.

— Ellen DeGeneres

I see myself more like a novelist or a polygamist than a musician in terms of my output.

— Mark Kozelek

I think it's OK to compose songs and sing them about questions that we don't have answers to yet.

— Rene Marie

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

— Phoebe Snow

I feel it's much easier to be honest or be myself in songs when I'm playing. That's why I felt, 'You know,…

— Alice Merton

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song'…

— Kenny G

Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefore, never…

— Simone Signoret

“I start songs all the time. If I weren't so lazy, I would finish them. It's like when I have a deadline…

— Ben Folds

Now I'm on the rise, doin' business with my guys. Visions realize, music [your craft] affected lives. A gift from the skies,…

— Common

As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write…

— David Nail

I feel like I love a little bit of everything. I grew up listening to the stuff my parents liked, from Earth,…

— Russ

“Then the music begins and we can both hear the slow, quiet, sweet desperation of a song I won’t mention. Imagine the…

— Markus Zusak

My dad's a huge music nerd and he put me onto a lot of music when I was very young, like Stevie…

— Ruel

If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock…

— Henry Rollins

“Oscar is our Liszt and Bill Evans is our Chopin,”

— Stuart Isacoff

(Rush are) like the JD Salinger of Canadian Prog Rock

— Stephen Colbert

Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.

— Saint Augustine

Music helps me escape the reality I live in.

— Anonymous

I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.

— Gordon Getty

Some people just can't get over their own hang-ups to listen to my music.

— Jakob Dylan

I've been wanting to do a Christmas song for forever.

— Lil Jon

I like to think we're like a cross between Pink Floyd and Slayer.

— Shavo Odadjian

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

— Sarah McLachlan

My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.

— Stephen Hough

“Music is an art, if not a part, You are just another stubborn sort...:)”

— Babu Rajan

Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.

— James Brown

Absolutely. Slade! A band that would never bend over.

— Kurt Cobain

I am a Bengali guy from Kolkata, who started singing at the age of 10.

— Soham Chakraborty

It's a natural tendency of mine to not even listen to lyrics.

— Zach Condon

“Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.”

— Jodi Picoult