Song Quotes · Page 262

I could never write a proper party song.

— Lauv

Music has unique ways of speaking to the soul.

— Mack Wilberg

I didn't think it was special to be able to sing.

— Amy Winehouse

If you want my body and you think I'm sexy come on sugar let me know.

— Rod Stewart

I was president of the show choir, I was kind of a geek, whatever.

— Christine Woods

I figure that most people will remember me for the songs I wrote.

— J. J. Cale

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

— Bob Marley

I've worked really, really hard on my lyricism.

— Little Simz

O Sun, great Oriental, my proud mind's golden cap, I love to wear you cocked askew, to play and burst in song…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could…

— Courtney Love

I wanted to make some music with deeper meaning mixed with the fun and cool stuff I've been doing for so long.

— Princess Superstar

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed…

— Fanny Burney

People get signed to labels by an executive who wants to make his mark at the label.

— Michael Penn

I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my…

— Andy Griffith

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

— Barry Mann

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

— Taylor Swift

Todd and Tim [Tobias] write the music, and I come up with the melodies and lyrics. I call it the Ohio Rock…

— Robert Pollard

“My mother told stories - of their life in the war and how she'd played the accordion in the air-raid shelter and…

— Jeanette Winterson

“The individual parts played by other instrumentalists-- crickets or earthworms, for instance-- may not have the sound of music by themselves, but…

— Lewis Thomas

We knew we wanted to have our own tone for the show. And then the big instrument that actually we came up…

— Ramin Djawadi

I feel like as musicians we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what’s happening in the…

— Thom Yorke

So you scream from behind your door, say what's mine is mine, and not yours I may have too much, but I'll…

— George Michael

I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role…

— Kathy Mattea

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent…

— Keren Ann

Classical music thinks in centuries, not four-year terms.

— Stephen Hough

The most common time I write lyrics is the middle of the night.

— Alissa White-Gluz

Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

When Beyonce began singing in earnest, she was 10 years old.

— Tina Knowles

Some people say music's good for the soul and I believe that's right.

— Fats Domino

With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.

— Ram Charan

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

— Keith Jarrett

I definitely associate songs with the places that I've been.

— Khalid

In a Broadway musical, a scene sometimes breaks into a song and vice versa.

— Anu Malik

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

— Oliver Sacks

Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.

— Miranda Lambert

But right now we have an advantage of being the number one in music.

— Daniel Ek

“I’ve come to sing you a song called December.”

— Ryan Murphy

Composers are always going back to the past.

— Anne Dudley

Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.

— Paul Simon

The majority of juice-heads and winos and junkies arent musicians.

— Thelonious Monk