Song Quotes · Page 509

“Every situation, every person has a melody playing, even if you can’t hear it.”

— Nina Schuyler

A bell is no bell 'til you ring it, A song is no song 'til you sing it, And love in your…

— Anonymous

I make a living with a song, and I feel honored to do something I love and believe in.

— Jewel

I think for music, it's global. You have a song, it sounds good, everybody likes it.

— Henry Lau

I have lots of memories of Zeppelin. And I know the joy it gives fans when I tell them stories. I see…

— Jason Bonham

Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.

— Marc Almond

I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.

— Anthony Kiedis

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times,…

— Henry David Thoreau

For a while there, our writing got really edgy... I've always written about experiences, so when your life gets a bit crazy,…

— Dolores O'Riordan

I think there's thousands of good songs in the world - the songs that we can all sing along to, songs that…

— Ella Henderson

It's about respecting what I think people like about the original music. I'm not gonna ever take it to the extent that…

— DJ Shadow

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going…

— Todd Rundgren

Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their…

— Emeli Sande

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in…

— Wendell Berry

I think I would be much more enthusiastic about a band that covered more than just one particular album of mine. I…

— DJ Shadow

I was looking at the setlist backstage and I just said, 'Oh my God, the first six songs nobody's gonna know.' But…

— Meredith Brooks

November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.

— Axl Rose

I would still be singing, because it's part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up. Find something you…

— Al Jarreau

Green Day is a band that you always felt had something to say, whether it was about the times or love or…

— Tom Kitt

Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

I could always write songs, act, get into politics, or stay home with the kids. But I've got to have some fun.

— Jon Bon Jovi

Now some they do and some they don't And some you just can't tell And some they will and some they won't…

— Roger Hodgson

I'm not a studio rat. I do find sitting around playing the same song 12 times kind of tedious. I like to…

— Darius Rucker

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't,…

— Kenny G

The piano represents home to me. It represents a place where I can heal - the sound of it, the feel of…

— Beth Hart

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

— Brad Paisley

“I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.”

— Eminem

I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.

— Bill Nighy

I wouldn't know absolutely everything I've been influenced by, but the first jazz I heard was Duke Ellington.

— Melody Gardot

It's easier to collaborate with instrumentalists than singers; they know exactly the sound that I need.

— Kaytranada

I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical…

— Mandy Patinkin

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.

— Jon Brion

“You are a song like no other song God's ever sung. Let that song fill your part of His world with joy-sounds.”

— Joanne Otto

I am very lucky to have the opportunity to tour and play my songs in rooms full of people that are coming…

— Noah Reid

The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people.

— Oliver Sacks

You can have the platinum album, but when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world -…

— Kendrick Lamar

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

— Aaron Copland

I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.

— Jack Antonoff

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

— Adam Lambert

“But far on the deep there are billows That never shall break on the beach; And I have heard songs in the…

— Father Ryan Song of the Mystic