Song Quotes · Page 214

I am just trying to do a song the best possible way I can.

— Glen Campbell

. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

— Victor Hugo

Weird Al is not gonna do a parody of your song if you're not doing it big.

— Chamillionaire

We write music because we have to; it's a part of our very being.

— M. Shadows

There is music in all things, if men had ears.

— Lord Byron

“When Nirvana came onto the scene, they pretty much saved music.”

— Caprice Crane

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

— W. H. Auden

I'm too drunk to light the bong. I'm too stoned to write this song.

— Brad Nowell

You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing,…

— Brandon Heath

Well, I'd like to be remembered by all my work, instead of one song. But a lot of times you get tagged…

— Johnny Paycheck

I have been exposed to most musical genres and have learned how to tackle them effectively.

— Wendy Starland

I've played piano since I was probably six or seven, but I stopped when I was about 13, and I couldn't be…

— Eliza Scanlen

I always felt music to be universal and undifferentiated - Western classical, folk, Carnatic or Hindustani and so on.

— Ilaiyaraaja

It's not that some songs are for radio and some songs aren't, I'm just making whatever I feel.

— MNEK

I'd say that 98 percent of the bands we've played with through the years have either broken up or are stuck in…

— David Bryan

The great jazz and jazz-influenced singers carry themselves with a certain panache and a certain elegance and, for lack of a better…

— Kurt Elling

For me, the biggest successes I've ever had were the ones I never counted on. I never thought my first big record…

— Frankie Avalon

If Mozart, instead of playing the pianoforte at three years old with wonderfully little practice, had played a tune with no practice…

— Charles Darwin

I find myself using music metaphors all the time, but this is too perfect, I feel like. Digital downloading is like photographs…

— Alec Soth

I've just had this idea pop in my head of trying to learn a new song every da, and try and play…

— Jim James

“The artist sang of dreams and a home. Blake moved slowly with Livia, and she could feel the lyrics vibrating in his…

— Debra Anastasia

An example I love: Diwata auditioned for the school play by doing a big number from Once Upon A Mattress. I went…

— Sarah Steele

I've grown fonder for Hillary Clinton since she ran for the presidency. I think that it's emblematic of the Rolling Stones song,…

— Dennis Miller

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when…

— William Butler Yeats

Unlike anything heard before. This is jazz for the 21st century.

— Scott Yanow

The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.

— Niccolo Paganini

My best moments are when I write songs out of nowhere.

— King Tuff

Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.

— Michelle Shocked

I would sing 'Visions of Love' over and over for a year straight.

— Ava Max

One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

— Q-Tip

It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.

— Pete Townshend

If I could be a doctor and save lives I would, but I can't so I sing songs.

— Joss Stone

I've been passionate about singing for as long as I can recall.

— Chinmayi

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

— Jimi Hendrix

Recording music is not really the healthiest thing for the body.

— Alex Ebert

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

— Joan Baez

My dads music was a great inspiration to me.

— Julian Lennon

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?

— Ira Gershwin

A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.

— Sebastian Faulks

Being in a rock band for 20 years is not the best resume for anything else.

— Walter Martin