Song Quotes · Page 317

For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.

— Yolandi Visser

My parents are more likely to know who Franz Liszt is than Snooki.

— Charlie Day

Music is where I started. It's kind of the base of everything.

— Sabrina Carpenter

Apartheid didn't impinge on music. It impinged on people's freedoms.

— Hugh Masekela

My mom wouldn't let me sing 'Strawberry Wine' because it had 'wine' in it.

— Avril Lavigne

Relax, ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does.

— John Denver

I'm so passionate about making good music.

— Pitbull

I'm tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat.

— Charlie Sheen

A girl's favOrite sOngs will tell yOu mOre abOut hEr feElings than hEr lips evEr will

— Anonymous

I create the music, and if this artist could complement this record, I reach out.

— Romeo Santos

Pity it is we drowse too soon Pity it is we fall asleep Ere our song encompass the height Ere our hand…

— Khalil Gibran

On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a…

— Carol Burnett

Every album, I make big records. I'm going to always make an anthem. That's what I do.

— DJ Khaled

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

— John Goodman

“A bird doesn't sing because it knows the song. It sings because it carries the melody in its heart. May you always…

— Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Even though there are incredible songs floating around Nashville, it's important for me to have my voice heard.

— Kelsea Ballerini

We're all about exploring new sounds, so we don't have any limits whatsoever about how we go about finding them. We do…

— Christian Karlsson

You have to be careful when it comes to copyrights, whether just sounding like or feeling like something is enough to say…

— John Legend

Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get…

— Sevyn Streeter

What people don't understand is when punk started it was so innocent and not aware of being looked at or being a…

— Siouxsie Sioux

I write about what I know and what I've experienced. That's the only way it can be real to me. I love…

— Aaron Tippin

My attitude was always, if you are a huge metal fan, the more dedicated and more obsessive a metal fan you are,…

— Martin Popoff

Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it's very touchy when you start adding things, because…

— Chris Cornell

My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by…

— Kailash Kher

Sometimes I have songs born out of stories.

— Billy Bob Thornton

If I like a song, I'll just keep playing it, and it never gets old.

— Bradley Cooper

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

— David Bowie

I try to make music for people to relate to, and I like to keep it realistic.

— Young M.A

When rock loses integrity it's time for renewal.

— John Densmore

Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.

— Courtney Barnett

Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.

— Robert Schumann

I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

— Cyndi Lauper

“The music of life would be mute if the chords of memory were snapped asunder.”

— Jerome K. Jerome

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.

— Jason Statham

I'm always hearing a song saying beam me up to where Scotty you piece of shit.

— Kevin McCarty

Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.

— Yip Harburg

The only rule of a musical is that it must maintain its buoyancy.

— George C. Wolfe

Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere.

— Rumi

I really respect Zakk Wylde's guitar playing and his compulsive work ethic.

— Dimebag Darrell

I still hear the songs reminding me of a friend

— Swedish House Mafia