Song Quotes · Page 230

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.

— Geddy Lee

You can't just sing the song and live another life.

— Ice T

Victor Hernandez, like an orchestral conductor directing his troops...

— Jon Champion

I want my songs to be heard by everyone.

— Joshua Radin

I am ultimately comfortable with what I'm sampling.

— Girl Talk

I'm always seeing stuff and imagining scenes in my head when I'm making music.

— Flying Lotus

I have a song called 'Working Girl' and it represents my whole story.

— Shangela

I started singing at age five and haven't stopped since.

— Kimberly Caldwell

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just…

— Glenn Danzig

I'm not Metallica, you can tell that I'm really not that angry in most of my songs.

— William Fitzsimmons

Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private.

— John Nettles

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was…

— Jamie Foxx

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

— Dave Grohl

“She danced so curving, lissom, like the laughter of the song. She sent resounding into spaace and down the ages long.”

— Tui Allen

I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

— Paul Desmond

With 'Feels,' I was in a really long relationship with somebody, so the songs were about that.

— Snoh Aalegra

Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it…

— Allan Kozinn

Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things…

— Al Jarreau

We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything…

— Brendan Bayliss

I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that. It encouraged my grand aunt…

— Peter Tosh

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds…

— Eberhard Weber

The thing that makes you a good 'Caraoke Showdown' singer is you gotta have some knowledge of these songs. You gotta be…

— Craig Robinson

Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies…

— Barry Manilow

My favorite kind of song is the most beautiful song that you love so much and it's so good it makes you…

— Kurt Vile

I've always tended to write songs prolifically.

— David Bowie

People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

— Petra Haden

My father started me out on the flute and I began going to teachers.

— Henry Mancini

I'm no stranger to making timeless music.

— Shaggy

One day the 'Maple Leaf' will make me King of Ragtime Composers.

— Scott Joplin

“Jazz and vodka, the fuel of resistance.”

— Rawi Hage

Music forced into the air you breathe is an invasion of privacy!

— Henry Mancini

Rock and roll has had a powerful anti-Christian subtheme for decades now.

— D. James Kennedy

The more wild experiences you have, the better songs you can write.

— Gary Rossington

Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn.

— Nikki Sixx

“Sudah gue bilang: punk is only hibernating, not dead!”

— Adham T. Fusama

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

— Danger Mouse

To me, the essence of the music is the most important thing.

— Ry Cooder

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

— Smokey Robinson

I prefer to read into other people's songs what I want to hear in them.

— Lou Barlow

Growing up, I always had Indian music playing around the house.

— Jonita Gandhi