Song Quotes · Page 512

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

— Igor Levit

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

— Yancy Butler

If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go…

— Jimmy Cliff

I don't think a good singer or a great singer is either of those things without a great song.

— LP

Rock stars' wives have never been given an easy time. They weren't nice about Linda McCartney till she died.

— Trudie Styler

I don't take karaoke seriously at all. I'm not the type of person who will go and belt out Whitney Houston.

— Melissa Benoist

“Kurt went from an unknown to icon of a generation. It was like crashing your car and having everyone cheer you on…

— Nicolas Otéro

I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.

— Ringo Starr

Adele is so great! I love "Someone Like You"! Everyone is just raving about it. What's so nice about it - and…

— Kerry Ellis

I wasn't a kid when I came out. Soulja Boy was 16. I'm saying that when he came out he was a…

— Nelly

When we've got something to say to the world, we will. I'm really happy that people are interested. "So, what's up with…

— Black Francis

When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew…

— Colin Meloy

I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something…

— Tom Felton

I also feel like it's the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean.…

— Zooey Deschanel

“Sing to the LORD a new song,         his praise from the end of the earth,     you who go down to the sea,…

— Crossway

“When I was younger I used to think that band-aids did all the work. I mean after all, it binds your wound…

— Onee'sha Ford

I need punk rock. It's the medicine for me, but it's bitter and sickening. If you don't need it - if you're…

— Bradford Cox

The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to…

— Bobby Brown

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

— Bobby Hutcherson

Music can take away that lonley feeling, by helping you realise your not the only one out there feeling the way you…

— Music_Love

Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.

— Theocritus

There's an irony about making a film about punk because punk isn't supposed to have feature films made about it.

— Toyah Willcox

Both my parents have been big influences on me wanting to do music. My mum's always been, 'Just do it. Just sing.'

— Jorja Smith

I think very frequently, musicians become a victim of every song they sing. I like all kinds of recreation. It's aggressive. I…

— David Lee Roth

I will not give up to sing until the people say it's enough. I hope it will be very late.

— Julio Iglesias

My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.

— Conor Oberst

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.

— Duff Green

There haven't been many examples of times when we've done a cover and not put it out in some form.

— Dan Smith

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even…

— Leonard Cohen

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

— K. D. Lang

Playing drums, for me, is like breathing. It's like thinking. It's like eating. It's like walking.

— Joey Jordison

Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it…

— Richard Morris

My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old…

— OMI

I'd say I'm really, really good for a 16-year-old, which is where I peaked. I'm impressive, but not classically trained, not a…

— Simon Helberg

As a rapper, I was heavily influenced by American rap albums. But for songs that are more melody-driven, I get my inspiration…

— G-Dragon

It'd be tricky to read into my lyrics - some are autobiographical, but sometimes I just like the sound of words.

— Max Tundra

Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in…

— Epictetus

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

— Suzi Quatro

I know it sounds weird for a 12-year-old to say that he wants to start writing songs, but that's what happened.

— Jonas Blue

You never realize how many swears or how inappropriate a song is until you're in the car with your parents listening to…

— Kat