Song Quotes · Page 390

I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.

— Mandy Patinkin

I've never worried about how long the song is.

— Adam Jones

You know what music is - a harmonic connection between all living beings.

— Robin Williams

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

— Peter Frampton

All of my music is based off my life experiences.

— Gabriella Wilson

I really do feel like music is the only thing that I can do.

— John Grant

I tend to think that every new song I make is better than the last one.

— Mija

I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

— Nana Mouskouri

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

— Kristin Hersh

Conducting is about communication. You don't play any notes, but you communicate with the musicians.

— Andris Nelsons

For me, the one thing I've got going for me in terms of my attributes as a musician is vision.

— Devin Townsend

I always say a song is like a ship. Once it has been made, you let it sail. Let the waves take…

— Mohit Chauhan

One of my dreams was always to have a piano - a room with a piano overlooking the ocean or a lake.

— Paul Rodgers

One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

— Bix Beiderbecke

Music should go right through you, leave some of itself inside you, and take some of you with it when it leaves.

— Henry Threadgill

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

— Jello Biafra

I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their…

— Ryan Adams

People started noticing my singing on YouTube, and then I came to L.A., and I lived on a studio couch. I wrote…

— Kim Petras

The first song I wrote was the first song I remember thinking, "Well, maybe I can do something here." The very first…

— Suzanne Vega

Girl with the burning golden eyes, And red-bird song, and snowy throat: I bring you gold and silver moons, And diamond stars,…

— Grace Noll Crowell

If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a…

— Abbott Eliot Kittredge

In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone…

— Todd Boyd

It was so interesting, when [John Coltrane] created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see him downstairs.…

— Alice Coltrane

To feel strong, to walk amongst humans with a tremendous feeling of confidence and superiority is not at all wrong. The sense…

— Fredrick Hatfield

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

— Tom Chapin

We need music to restore the human spirit

— Leonard Slatkin

But to a higher mark than song can reach, Rose this pure eloquence.

— William Wordsworth

I'm everybody in music's guilty pleasure.

— The-Dream

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

— Christian Lacroix

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

— Billy Corgan

Whatever I hear in my head is what I play.

— Marketa Irglova

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

— Jared Leto

I try to record music that people can relate to.

— Jason Aldean

I've got songs that'll make a gangster cry.

— E-40

Darn...I forget my lines for my own song...candy girl!

— Aaron Carter

“Want to hear them do a real song?” I burst out.”

— Suzanne Collins

“If i could have sung it would be a very sad song.”

— Karen Foxlee

I think it's really hard to describe music without alienating somebody.

— John Petrucci

Spotify is a platform: it could be expanded to other types of content.

— Daniel Ek

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

— Robert Quine