Song Quotes · Page 429

You can radically change a person's life with a tune. I don't think people truly understand or appreciate how powerful that is.

— Richard Ashcroft

That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for…

— Diplo

Because Music is a language that lives in the spiritual realms, we can hear it, we can notate it and create it,…

— Joy Harjo

That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song

— Harlan Coben

For the song 'Rub,' I wanted to do a video with all women, in every aspect, from the electrician to the makeup…

— Peaches

I think for a band like us, we're all really close friends. We grew up and went to school together. We're not…

— Luke Hemmings

If it's the beginning of something - like an album, I'm working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset.

— Phil Collins

I look around my life and it's hard to believe that music has given me all that I have.

— Jason Mraz

The thing about singing is that if you're having fun while doing it then people will have fun watching you do it.…

— Adam DeVine

I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have…

— Ann Voskamp

I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it…

— Cat Stevens

It's impossible to tell how you're perceived. I think it's important not to think about it too much, because it really means…

— Ted Dwane

I was in 'Jacques Brel' Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete…

— Amanda McBroom

“He slid inside her, his body moving over hers as she lay stretched out on her sofa, his kiss worshipping her mouth,…

— Lexxie Couper

“A few notes had the ability to transport me back in time, and to the most painful of places. Take any song…

— Kate Stewart

I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald,…

— Little Richard

I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.

— King Krule

Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black…

— David Sanborn

My favourite piece of music is actually 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' as a whole. For me, it's the most perfect…

— John Gourley

I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'

— Tom Waits

Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in…

— Charles Duhigg

I see magic in conversation and words, and music is purely speaking to others, isn't it?

— Jade Bird

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner…

— Bono

Usually what I do is I write my vocal melody over guitar parts and then I come up with lyrics.

— Hope Sandoval

I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.

— Simon Van Booy

I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.

— Brian Wilson

Why buy a bootleg shitty copy of my special when you can get it on AMAZON for only $2.99. Swap meet cant…

— Gabriel Iglesias

I would literally never think about melody. I never thought people listened to melody because I listen to words.

— Nina Nesbitt

Baarish' is very close to me. It is based on my real love story. Hence, writing and composing this song came naturally…

— Tanishk Bagchi

I came up with Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. Those guys, they took me under their wing at an early age.

— Troy Carter

“I discovered very early that my instrument wasn't my voice," he said to me once. "It was the microphone.”

— Pete Hamill

You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig…

— Dexter Holland

I've always loved music, and I've always sought out the stranger things, even in a record you could buy at the mall.

— Grant Evans

I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I…

— Miriam Makeba

“This part of my life is called The Remix. When you notice that you are no longer on the track, just sing…

— Niedria Dionne Kenny

Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.

— Casey Kasem

'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.

— Rufus Wainwright

I studied classical violin and voice until I was 18 and by then I had had my fill.

— Sunny Ozell

Marriage is like a song, where the Lord's sweet melody of love comes from two hearts joined as one, husband and wife.

— Anonymous