Song Quotes · Page 414

I really have shaken hands with where my voice is right now. I think it's got a little deeper; it's got some…

— Emmylou Harris

I would love to choreograph a song for Sanjay Leela Bhansali... that's my dream.

— Shakti Mohan

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

— Linda Ronstadt

Sound has always followed me. A lot of reggae when mum was cooking. I'd write songs with my dad or play him…

— Jorja Smith

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's…

— Paul McCartney

You can't sing with a closed heart. You just can't do it. And if you try, as soon as you start singing,…

— Deva Premal

Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the…

— Lee Ranaldo

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the…

— Ambrose Bierce

Because U.K. artists aren't compensated when their music is played on U.S. radio ­stations, U.S. artists aren't ­compensated when their records are…

— Neil Portnow

“Siren Song This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the song that is irresistible: the song that forces men…

— Margaret Atwood

There's a place in England called Petticoat Lane, and... they always used to get the heavy albums, like, a week before. So…

— Peter Frampton

The head of a record label sets up structures, but he also defines the sound of the label, which is to describe…

— John Kao

Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any…

— Nellie McKay

I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are…

— Regina Spektor

I decided to play the saxophone because it was the most obvious instrument in my family. There were a lot of saxophone…

— Flying Lotus

Now I am going to speak a word and this is the word and here's the word. When the clock strikes 2.08.…

— Steve Munsey

I believe honesty comes across in music because for [most] people music isn't just something to dance to.

— Willa Ford

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

— Deepak Chopra

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

— Mark Foster

Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear... I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play.

— Rick Nielsen

When I first wanted to play guitar it was because I had seen Brian Setzer. He's so good! I mean I was…

— Kim Shattuck

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable…

— Brian Eno

I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how…

— Charles Stuart Calverley

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will…

— Dimebag Darrell

Jimi Hendrix was the master of live stuff. He was my inspiration to do the yo-yo, everything he did on stage was…

— Jason Becker

It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music…

— Tommy Shaw

The larger streaming grows, the less money there will be to get the music out there, which, to me, is the sad…

— Justin Tranter

No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock.

— Dave Grohl

I played the coronet first, and then I upgraded to the trumpet. First song I learned on there was 'Hot Cross Buns.'

— Lil Uzi Vert

I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became…

— George Strait

There are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too

— Michael W. Smith

People called me Cilla when I was little because I was always singing and writing poems.

— Nicola Roberts

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside…

— Shirley MacLaine

Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to…

— Brett Dennen

You live a life, you have a family, you sing your songs. You do not think about these things. You just do…

— Julio Iglesias

I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.

— Buzz Osborne

In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Technically it was really hard to render the right way the second album on stage.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

You find ways to push yourself into the sound through repetition. It doesn't stay the same. It morphs constantly.

— Michael Gira

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

— Nanci Griffith