Song Quotes · Page 443

People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new.

— Trombone Shorty

“take everything from me, but don't take away my MUSIC, that's everything for me”

— Ohadugha Golden O

When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by…

— Jason Pierce

You don't necessarily have to write a song to make it your own. After all, Elvis never wrote a song in his…

— Leo Sayer

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

— Jimmy Page

Normally when you write for an orchestra, you think about melody and harmony and countermelody.

— Ludwig Goransson

I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.

— Tyler, The Creator

“From key signature to coda, from downbeat to the sound of life's final fermata, our pasts set the tone for all that…

— Jamie A. Hughes

“The conductor of the orchestra doesn’t make a sound. His power comes from awakening possibility in others. —Benjamin Zander, conductor and coauthor…

— Malcolm Harkins

It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a…

— James Blunt

When I approach my music and my music videos, obviously all of the subjects and stories that I tell come from an…

— Hayley Kiyoko

I strenuously object to the very word "grotesque" which has become hackneyed to the point of nausea...I would prefer my music to…

— Sergei Prokofiev

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it…

— Bono

I'm not sure it's a better music world of appreciation and performance. I think the listener is a different guy, and listening…

— Al Jarreau

I don't mind looking foolish but it's just that I'm so bad at singing. The only time people ask me to sing…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The Replacements made me feel a little less scared, because they made good imaginary friends. They looked like a band that would…

— Rob Sheffield

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

— Michel Legrand

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

— Chris Isaak

I don't think I have a great voice, but I started singing on my tracks and they did a lot better. So…

— Tom Misch

Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation…

— Ali Akbar Khan

We're better than Metallica. We're better musicians, better players. Put it this way, they can try to walk onstage after an Iron…

— Bruce Dickinson

I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.

— Adam Lambert

It's not that I always had this impeccable voice. Some 15-18 years ago, I started noticing that I could not reach higher…

— K. J. Yesudas

My music's always been about life. And situations. Situation comedies, situation life.

— Johnny Paycheck

I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in…

— Lucinda Williams

When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation…

— Denis Leary

There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.

— Nancy Sinatra

I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.

— Jane Wiedlin

But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.

— Henry Rollins

I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.

— Teddy Thompson

I'm finding it hard to listen to other rock bands. It's been hard for me for a long time, but now I…

— Matt Tong

Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for…

— Patty Griffin

It seems that singing is the only thing I've been able to do and fortunately it seems to be useful!

— Judith Durham

“His lullaby was an instant success not because it was incomparably original, but because it offered a familiar melody in an original…

— Derek Thompson

Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore.

— Jimmy Iovine

Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level…

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

— Corita Kent

Play piano each morning, walk a mile, speak of what was going down with honesty and style.

— Chicago (Band

It's a trip now that other bands are saying that they look up to us. In my mind, I'm still 18 years…

— Johnny Christ

“Maybe all hospitals should import groups of rabble-rousing punk rockers to kick-start the languishing patients’ hearts.”

— Gayle Forman