Song Quotes · Page 212

I can sing other people's songs all day, but I'm ready for it to be my song.

— Chloe Kohanski

“she calls it—by singing to himself, and thus preoccupying”

— David Epstein

I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.

— Stone Gossard

Don't start drinking before the fifth song.

— Terry Wogan

You go to a pop concert or a classical concert but there's nothing in between.

— Andre Rieu

“Symphony” by Clean Bandit kicks in and I grin. I love this song.”

— Jordan Ford

I love music I cant say who I would be without it <33

— Anonymous

My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.

— Robin Trower

I think Mozart, like you, is an example of someone who has the gods moving through him, and his religion was creation.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that.

— Ozzy Osbourne

I remember sitting at home in West Texas listening to my 'Songs for a New World' CD over and over.

— Michael Arden

I can't immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by…

— TobyMac

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

— John Philip Sousa

Thomas Dolby is part mad scientist, part nature boy, and entirely moved by the power of music.

— Shawn Amos

I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals…

— Ben Folds

A singer doesn't sing at home: he or she wants his songs to reach out the audience. Audience always gives you your…

— Himesh Reshammiya

We [The Replacements] never made any money on tour. None of us came out of the school of economics. We took it…

— Paul Westerberg

The Chili Peppers do a lot of improvising, but it's within the framework of song structures. The Meatbats is from a purely…

— Chad Smith

“Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. But it is also in terror, because…

— Rebecca West

I love the fact that people don't see the ukulele as a serious instrument. A lot of people see it as more…

— Jake Shimabukuro

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the…

— Johannes Brahms

What has been America's most nurturing contribution to the culture of this planet so far? Many would say jazz. I, who love…

— Kurt Vonnegut

We recognize the universal power of music to touch the hearts of men and women everywhere and in all generations-to inspire and…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

A great song awakens something in your body / mind / spirit or history that you had forgotten about. It ignites some…

— Greta Salpeter

Music should be some kind of nourishment.

— Chuck D

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

— Bobby McFerrin

You cannot separate your life and your music and your job; everything's linked.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

“Be still for you may hear the hauntingly familiar song of a mermaid.”

— Heather McLaren

I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.

— Gary Cherone

A good song and good musicians can really move mountains.

— Joey Tempest

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

— Taylor Momsen

My goal as a songwriter now is to simply write some memorable turns of phrase.

— Ben Gibbard

“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”

— J.K. Rowling

Singing pop music was not something I planned, but I managed to do it.

— Tiffany Darwish

Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.

— Gottfried Leibniz

Every one of my father's songs is a lesson.

— Damian Marley

You can't evaluate your situation when you're in a band, not really.

— Jim Root

My favorite song of ours is 'Dance The Night Away.'

— Nayeon

As a listener, I like a wide range of sounds.

— Erin McKeown

It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

— Marc Almond