Song Quotes · Page 438

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

— Joe Strummer

I could read music and sing all the right notes at the right time. And over time, I literally found my voice,…

— Caroline Shaw

I just didn't really relate to Kurt Cobain. There was nothing very glamorous about him.

— Justin Tranter

I make negative music, but I also make positive music because that's what thrown at me with life.

— Tyga

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

— Michel Legrand

If I had to choose a song to listen to before I died, it would be Simone singing Começar de novo.

— Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira

I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs].

— Leonard Cohen

I look at the lyrics, and if that's something honest for me at the moment, I'll sing it.

— Ysabella Brave

A song is composed of music and lyrics: 50 percent is the producer, 50 percent is the artist. So, I'm responsible for…

— Gza

Man, you'd be surprised how much I'm learning - not only about myself, but about the musicians who came before me. You…

— Freddie Hubbard

If I want to do an orchestral record, if I want to do an acoustic record, if I want to do a…

— Steven Wilson

Being a perfectionist, I didn't want to settle for just getting by, so I enrolled in a vocal training program. I then…

— Alyson Stoner

I want to entertain my audience. I know when then come and see me play, if I don't do 'Swing Town,' 'Jet…

— Steve Miller

Everything has to be intrinsic plot-wise in the same way, to use the Linda Williams analogy but to move it on a…

— Neil Gaiman

When the second album came out, everybody gravitated immediately to the three and a half minute rock tunes and ignored the ballads.…

— Eric Carmen

Neil Amin-Smith and I met playing in classical orchestras when we were children. We are from the same area of London. We…

— Grace Chatto

Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.

— Roberta Flack

I always say, 'If it looks good on a T-shirt, it would probably be a pretty cool title or cool song.'

— Cole Swindell

I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.

— Antonio Carlos Jobim

Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction…

— Albert Einstein

I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think…

— Tyga

“Speaking is like conducting an orchestra; but instead of music, you are directing emotions.”

— Anonymous

I don't know if this is a good thing to say, but the musical obsession has almost shifted to a creative obsession…

— Erol Alkan

Music taught me how to always be patient and focused, and to train the little concentration in myself.

— Hiromi

Every time I hear a song that reminds me of my ex I have a strong erg to punch the radio.

— Ambri Bright

Writing music - particularly music without lyrics - calls almost exclusively on the subconscious.

— Jon Hopkins

Some of my favorite songs--and I don't know if this is the right terminology--are white-boy classics.

— Shaquille O'Neal

I like the idea that songs can communicate in a way no other media can. That's why I write them.

— David Longstreth

Songs from the theatre can be taken and put on record in a commercial and contemporary way, be reinvented and become standout…

— Michael Ball

Jimi Hendrix's 'Electric Ladyland' and 'All Along the Watchtower,' those solos are just so cool.

— Gary Rossington

I love playing acoustic guitar because I strum with my hands to feel more connected.

— Ananya Birla

Rock'n'roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things,…

— John Mellencamp

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose…

— Alicia Witt

Life is like a music..sometimes it gets to hight pitch or sometimes low…life is beautiful...live your life your way and u'll find…

— Maclon S Fernandes

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

— Miranda Lambert

Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo,

— Nomi Prins

It's been a long time the world's been waiting for this. Well Jr. Gong him come again him have some brand new…

— Junior Delgado

A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

— Dolly Parton

I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.

— Colin Hay

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

— Anonymous