Song Quotes · Page 299

I want to sing simple things for the simple lives of simple people.

— Julio Iglesias

There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

— Bryan White

Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.

— Yolandi Visser

In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

— Henry David Thoreau

I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.

— Julia Michaels

'Hold On' is such an important song to me personally.

— Chord Overstreet

“They really thought what other people sing in songs.”

— Boris Pasternak

Coldplay was big for me in the 2000s. 'Parachutes' was a good album.

— Scarface

Being a child of the 1970s, I remember cleaning up on the weekends. we would listen to everything from Marvin Gaye to…

— Jalen Rose

There's a lot of people I'd love to work with at some point, but I think the song has to be the…

— Jason Aldean

It's amazing how I still remember the lyrics of an old song, but I can't remember the things I studied the night…

— Anonymous

It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You…

— James Taylor

Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.

— Jack Antonoff

Music can be just one-sided if you hear it, but if you see it with a visual and an image, it opens…

— Jennie

When I bring my music to a live audience, I know right away whether it is being appreciated or not.

— Badshah

“But his singing was unconscious and irrepressible - an expression of his native exuberance, the dreamy, buoyant soundtrack running through his head.”

— Jennifer Haigh

It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end…

— Ronnie Montrose

I do a lot of stuff for free anyway. Like a lot of people who you see who don't need money. Mick…

— Henry Rollins

“When they find out what I do for a living, many people tell me they love music listening, but their music lessons…

— Daniel J. Levitin

“Books that nourish the lonely hearts…as they make a song in desolate times…they build a house to take you in when the…

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

I think that the song, the song "Stand By Me" is one of those songs that... and someone asked me, what was…

— Ben E. King

I would say that everyone that you see who is successful in the mainstream, at the top of Billboard, who has a…

— Immortal Technique

'Faucet Failure' was my favorite because I just had fun with it, and it was just 10 minutes, and I didn't overthink…

— Ski Mask the Slump God

“Music? Music is life! It’s physical emotion - you can touch it! It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into…

— Isaac Marion

Ah music…a magic far beyond anything done here.

— Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“If I could be anywhere, where would I be?”

— Tom Felton

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

— Dave Grohl

Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.

— Sun Ra

Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.

— Ziggy Marley

To have a Beatle doing an impression of you, I almost retired at that moment.

— Ron Mael

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

— Peter Shaffer

Just call us the band that wouldn't die.

— John Rzeznik

Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

I know I'd feel emotional if one of my favorite bands was going out.

— Nikki Sixx

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.

— Etta James

And I definitely have an affinity with the piano.

— Jim Coleman

“November Rain by Guns N Roses. Best. Song. Ever.”

— Angela Richardson

Oh, I try to stay as far away from karaoke as humanly possible!

— Jeremy Jordan

I just don't think I'm a very good singer.

— Kevin Kline

I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

— Elliott Yamin