Song Quotes · Page 309

Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song.

— Neil Peart

I like singing, but it's certainly not my strong point.

— Moby

Simply the best! Great music, extremely entertaining.

— Joe Zawinul

When asked about Bach, Sir Thomas Beecham replied:

— Harold Atkins

To me, songwriting is exaggerating to an extent.

— Ruel

It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.

— Maddie Marlow

I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.

— Richard Marx

People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.

— John Lennon

A lot of my songs are personal and about me being 16 and having guys break my heart and feeling like it's…

— Avril Lavigne

There's a happy medium to everything, even with powerhouse singers. You don't have to belt it out all the time. You don't…

— Gabby Barrett

Being in a band is being punk, no matter what. You have to dedicate your life to it.

— Charlotte Caffey

Jane Monheit is skyrocketing up the jazz charts. By next year, we won't be able to get her.

— Jane Monheit

There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.

— Richard Morris

There was a time that I was The Drifter in NXT, and I did not want to break my guitar because that…

— Elias

Songs give you incredible opportunity to convey a tremendous amount in a relatively short period of time.

— Chris Meledandri

“I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs, Yet, like a tree, endure the shift of things.”

— Theodore Roethke

A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You've got to…

— Nick Hornby

I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still have a…

— John Congleton

For me, I just want to sing about life. And since I come from a spiritual background, I turned to jazz, because…

— Lizz Wright

“With a feeling of despondency so intense that it was almost pleasurable, he got out his guitar. So this was to be…

— Marina Lewycka

The only thing I can think of is my favorite album at the moment by this guy called Father John Misty, and…

— Daniel Radcliffe

Winter has caused damage everywhere: meadow and forest are all grey, where before you heard many sounds. If I could see the…

— Walther von der Vogelweide

There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live…

— Burton Cummings

I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is…

— Charles R. Swindoll

I was born and raised on 'Singin' in the Rain.' It's in my work. It's in me.

— Zac Posen

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

— Don Henley

“Children have their morning song as well as birds.”

— Victor Hugo

You've got to be a really straight man to write a song like 'It's Raining Men.'

— Paul Shaffer

But I'd like to be taken seriously as a singer.

— Barbi Benton

Killing me softly with his song. Killing me softly with his song.

— Roberta Flack

I didn't start playing piano until I was 18.

— George Winston

Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.

— Howard Shore

Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better.

— Ella Fitzgerald

I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.

— Daniel Barenboim

I wrote my first song when I was four, and I played it at my piano recital.

— Beth Hart

When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.

— Daniel Barenboim

I'm a drummer. I can count to four and repeat.

— Tre Cool

I have a very difficult time getting the Napster world.

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

It's healthy for a band to become slightly less relevant

— Max Bemis

A person who makes song in 15 minutes and thinks it's cool.

— Soulja Boy