Song Quotes · Page 442

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

— Bruce Springsteen

I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you.

— Regina Spektor

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no…

— Robin Thicke

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players.

— Emanuel Ax

Everybody asks me if I sing on this record. Even my mother asks me. I am a very proud person and this…

— Rob Pilatus

I'll hear a song I love and suddenly I'm isolated from everything around me just for a nanosecond. That's a moment between…

— Charlie Sheen

I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song…

— John Mellencamp

In search of love and music My whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving, diving, diving, diving, Diving down to pick…

— Joni Mitchell

Really, whatever I was seeking and looking into in those days like creative arts, chant, the muse being in touch with the…

— Surya Das

I've been writing a lot of road songs. Writing a lot of homesick songs. But once you start playing them out, it…

— Tyler Childers

I got all these books about, like, what you need to know to enter the entertainment industry. And I remember I sent…

— Lindsey Stirling

A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the…

— Jamie Foxx

The beautiful thing about it is that 'Despacito' is not really an English crossover. It was just another song that the world…

— Luis Fonsi

All of the artists did such a beautiful job I can’t thank them enough. I’m just honored that 'God Only Knows' was…

— Brian Wilson

If the music is good, and if it makes sense as a strong structure and as a drama, and things happen as…

— Missy Mazzoli

Child, think not of those things, those dark possibilities. Your father and brothers are here with you today. Lavain will tug at…

— Lisa Ann Sandell

I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.

— Sam Hunt

There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.

— Larry Mullen, Jr

The key thing is to get that one splash - that one song or that one video for a song - that…

— Denis Leary

Herb Wong was an incredible man. We met when I was performing with Clark Terry at the Wichita Jazz Festival around 1974.

— Dianne Reeves

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in…

— Hal Sparks

I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my…

— Andrew McMahon

Always keep a song in your heart - it's like karaoke for the voices in your head

— Robert Fulton Abernethy

There are plenty of very different sounding bands that could be H.O.R.D.E. bands.

— John Popper

I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of people can relate to.

— Blu Cantrell

Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm…

— Bill Bruford

Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as…

— James Cagney

I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.

— Britt Daniel

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

— Bryan Adams

The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of…

— James Russell Lowell

“Until the song is sung and the musicians have all gone home, not even you can tell which notes made the melody.”

— Karen Miller

All the colors in my life are colors that you left behind. All the songs that I sing are from thoughts that…

— Anonymous

Music is magic. It's my favourite drug: it really has an effect on me mentally and physically. It's such a rush.

— Craig Nicholls

Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.

— Michelle Obama

I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I…

— Stephen Sondheim

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

— Rob Sheffield

Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Bruce Smith is a tender master of music, and beautiful lines, and complex thoughts, and fascinating wild personal and cultural references.

— Gerald Stern

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words…

— Ken Hensley

My strongest message is: 'Never give your songs away. Never sign a contract you can't get out of.'

— Steve Miller