Song Quotes · Page 419

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.

— Pete Seeger

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

— Tracy Chapman

Mastering is your last chance to fix or address any issues that you may have before giving birth to this beautiful baby…

— Emily Lazar

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

— Helen Vendler

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

— Rabindranath Tagore

I don't do karaoke. You know how some people don't like massages? They don't like massages; I don't like karaoke.

— Cillian Murphy

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me…

— Sean Lennon

I think I've probably had one of my guitars on display at every Hard Rock Cafe in the world.

— Rick Nielsen

I wrote a post about wanting to buy a banjo - a $300 banjo, which is a lot of money, and I…

— Mena Grabowski Trott

I'm still trying to find the perfect Nirvana song that's an example of that, but you do hear a lot of their…

— Ian Christe

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose…

— Clark Gable

At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a…

— Astrid Lindgren

I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I…

— Anne Reeve Aldrich

I discovered lots of music; electronic synth bands from the mid-'80s like Depeche Mode, Soft Cell and Cabaret Voltaire. My friends and…

— Giles Deacon

O' beautiful for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that…

— Don Henley

I don't think that three minutes of music on a commercial record is going to bring paradise, but I feel like there…

— Kyp Malone

There's moments I go through day to day because I'm human. I think the diversity in my music is going to help…

— Bazzi

When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for…

— Billy Wilder

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

— Jim Parsons

Metal fans are just as compassionate and caring and tolerant as any other form of music fans are.

— Rob Halford

There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.

— Amy Winehouse

There are a few YouTube clips of me singing at The King's Head in Santa Monica, so you can see how bad…

— Vinnie Jones

I make records from top to bottom. Bring the best out of the vocalist. I deal with live instrumentation on all our…

— Scott Storch

Milkshake' was my theme song as soon as it came out. I think I was 13. I just love Kelis. Full stop.

— Liz Cambage

O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Rejoice in the LORD , O you righteous! For praise from the upright is beautiful. Praise the Lord . . . make…

— Robert J. Morgan

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of…

— Krist Novoselic

I feel like I'm real honest in my music. Even if it ends up being an exaggeration or a fantasy, it's a…

— Syd

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it

— Sean Lennon

Gibson ES 125 was a real instrument, this was in 1956. I started learning; I had a vision of a sound.

— Steve Young

Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind

— Willie Nelson

“The Band advances to the cadence of the flute, and has no call for retreat. Its code is Stand and Die.”

— Steven Pressfield

I would love to have a song that I wrote by myself to win a 'Song of the Year' award.

— Miranda Lambert

“Those are the greatest fuckin' song lyrics I've ever heard. Let's start a rock 'n' roll band and make a million dollars.”

— Danny Sugerman

Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and Im always going to want to do it.

— Naturi Naughton

I think Nine Inch Nails was a really big one for me, when I was 18. They really inspired me to start…

— Katie Stelmanis

My favorite moment in our In This Moment set is when I go out by myself to play a song on the…

— Maria Brink

All our old record reviews were like, 'Oh, these skate punk kids, blah, blah, blah.' And I don't skate, and we're not…

— Chad Gilbert

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.

— Andrew Bird

No command of art, No toil, can help you hear; Earth's minstrelsy falls clear But on the listening heart.

— John Vance Cheney