Song Quotes · Page 229

I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.

— Lorna Dee Cervantes

Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else.

— James McCartney

I think I feel in love with words before I feel in love with music.

— Taylor Swift

I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

— Laura Mvula

It costs so much money to make a record!

— Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

— Bob Weir

This song goes out to Robin Williams. It's called 'Last Hope'.

— Hayley Williams

In respect for drummers, see, I love drummers.

— Miles Davis

The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins.

— Hans von Bulow

“Music is the hidden arithmetic of the soul, which does not know that it deals with numbers. (Paraphrasing Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz)”

— Ellen Klages

I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs…

— Kenny Chesney

I think if you can affect somebody's life with one song, that's such a powerful tool to reach millions of people on…

— Chord Overstreet

Being a songwriter requires versatility while being an artist requires you to create a cohesive body of work. I truly enjoy both.

— Wendy Starland

When you write a song like 'Forrest Gump,' the subject can't be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.

— Frank Ocean

My first guitar was an Ibanez semi-hollowbody, I think it was called the Artist, from the early '80s.

— Kim Shattuck

I messed around with the guitar from the age of about eight, but when I hit 13, it was the only thing…

— Sam Fender

Our song is the slammin' screen door, sneaking out late tapping on your window and when we're on the phone and you…

— Taylor Swift

My first memory of loving music happened so early. We would always go to the beach in the summer and I would…

— Taylor Swift

Every day it gets worse and worse and worse. We just want to get everyone to vote and be a part of…

— Kathleen Hanna

I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all…

— Joan Sutherland

I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

I had always been a jazz fan - Django Reinhardt, Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, the early George Benson. And I…

— Peter Frampton

I worked with Snoop, but I would love to work with him again, but DMX I would love to work with him…

— Bow Wow

There is no way I'll ever write an album for Avril Lavigne or Christina Aguilera. I just couldn't do it. There is…

— Devin Townsend

'Walk on the Wild Side' was a very catchy song.

— Robert Hilburn

Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading.

— Jimmy Iovine

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.

— Herbie Mann

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

— Dave Davies

Every song has a mood, a situation and a different kind of score.

— M. Jayachandran

You need to know when to surrender the album.

— Bebe Rexha

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

— David Johansen

I don't think that good politics ever excuse a bad song.

— Greg Brown

“I knew what song was next and I knew who I was dancing with. My wife.”

— Karina Halle

“It is the space between the notes that makes the music”

— Achille-Claude Debussy

But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.

— Chaka Khan

That awkward moment when you sing the wrong part of a song with confidence.

— Cuts And Scars

Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement.

— George Szell

“Standing still at dusk Listen . . . in far distances The song of froglings!”

— Buson

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

— Stephane Mallarme

It kind of limits what we can call the albums.

— Will Farquarson