Song Quotes · Page 320

As a singer-songwriter I definitely think I push the mould a lot.

— Ben Howard

I think you can do a lot with lyrics and melody.

— Alison Sudol

I feel like the music I'm doing is very experimental and very radical.

— Rosalia

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

— Neil Young

A song is the most intangible thing in the world.

— Jimmie Davis

'Proud Mary' was the best song for me to perform because it was so much fun.

— Jessica Sanchez

I didn't think I had a weird voice until everyone started saying I did.

— Tones and I

“Music without soul is a sound but sound with a soul is music”

— Jann Glenn Silla

When I miss you, I read our old conversations, smile like an idiot, listen to songs that reminds me of you, then…

— Anonymous

I still get a chill when I sing, 'You Don't Own Me.' I find some new feeling in it every time.

— Lesley Gore

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock…

— Cass Elliot

I've always been a singer, but I don't know if I was always a natural performer.

— Lisa Hannigan

Even if you are a pianist, your concerto repertoire is very limited compared to what your chamber repertoire would be if you…

— David Finckel

In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their…

— Jo Brand

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

— Robert Wyatt

I didn't really get sidetracked into being a singer. It was just something I started to do for fun in school, like…

— Mya

As you're creating the album, you shouldn't be thinking about what the album is going to be at the end, you should…

— Calum Hood

“I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s…

— Rachel Cohn

If somebody says, 'Well, what are your favorite composers?' really, what they are saying is, 'What are your favorite composers apart from…

— Max Richter

Keep a cool head and a warm heart. A mantra that became a song, inspired by the wise words of Maharishi Mahesh…

— Mike Love

In the future, women will have breasts all over. In the future, it will be a relief to find a place without…

— David Byrne

I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was…

— Dhani Harrison

Sometimes you think "Okay, well I'm going to play my horn, and I'm going to study Charlie "Bird" Parker solos or [John…

— Jon Gordon

I just sort of grew up with music always in the background like a soundtrack. And it really hit me hard when…

— Paul Rodgers

'Motherwort.' 'Great Leopard's Bane.' These are awesome band names.

— Jeff Baena

I still get surprised that people don't know that I sing.

— Joely Fisher

Before I could talk, I would try to sing.

— Linda Cardellini

Music, hope, and prayer helps with getting through tough times.

— Anonymous

I wish I could end every rap song I didn't like with a buzzer.

— Drew Carey

I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.

— Ryan Lochte

A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.

— Dorothy Fields

The very first song I wrote was called 'At Least It's Pink.'

— Bridget Everett

I write a song for myself because I need to come out with that particular song.

— Tarja Turunen

I'm not going to do a song just because it's with Drake.

— Jorja Smith

“For him, that's what battle is. A Symphony.”

— Sarah J. Maas

All the serious bands, all the punks, came from Bristol.

— Roland Orzabal

I'm going to continue to keep music number one.

— Ludacris

We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.

— Conor Oberst

Some of those early Kinks songs, we were barely in tune.

— Dave Davies

I did sign to Ruthless Records, but they didn't really support me.

— Hopsin