Song Quotes · Page 521

Songs are puzzles - you get an intro, or maybe an end, but you gotta fill in the rest. Sometimes they come…

— Mark Kozelek

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

— Keith Jarrett

Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are…

— Akiva Goldsman

I'm from Chicago and that's where I created all of my most prized possesions, which are my songs.

— Vic Mensa

Just as a random thing, because I can't choose a favorite song ever, I'll go for Minnie Riperton's "Expecting".

— Alison Goldfrapp

I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of…

— Ashlee Simpson

It's rewarding to know that a song is doing more than just helping someone to have a nice day: it's actually leaving…

— Natalie Grant

In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that…

— Bryce Dessner

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of…

— Carlos Santana

Some people don't understand that but it's nice when it really just gets to the point then that it [music] doesn't get…

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. The more I push myself to really live and really…

— Damien Rice

What appeals to me about an American music directorship is the involvement of the conductor with the orchestra and the community. I…

— Jeffrey Tate

We always mess around with riffs and stuff and kind of jam out during sound checks, but we never actually started playing…

— Johnny Christ

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip…

— Taylor Swift

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't…

— Juliana Hatfield

I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing,…

— Herb Alpert

“Just go there is completely bonkers! That i get to play music - That's something else”

— Greyson Chance

Presenting the American songbook as a living, breathing entity that's expanding all the time is very important.

— Chris Thile

Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute.

— Peter Drucker

I think there are ways a place can sneak its way into a song, or a feeling that you take into the…

— Taylor Goldsmith

A regret I have was never being able to interview George Harrison. I just loved him but I never had a chance…

— Nina Blackwood

I like the continuity of singing my lines together instead of going line by line.

— Chinmayi

I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.

— Dave Matthews

As a person who doesn't identify as straight, any love song I write is contextualized by a queer identity.

— Rostam Batmanglij

The Music is the only corporeal introduction to the superior world of Knowledge.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

To be able to be onstage and to hear people in the audience go, 'That's my song!' It's amazing.

— Deborah Joy Winans

The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.

— Paul Westerberg

“The song goes, “Morning has broken,” and I’m pretty sure my children broke it. Like everything else they break, if they did…

— Jim Gaffigan

I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.

— Colin Meloy

Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions . . . Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.

— Ellen Hunnicutt

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

— Barry Mann

Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

— Roger Scruton

In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit…

— John Green

My mom was a huge Adam and the Ants fan. My granddad listened to a lot of Motown and Elvis and Johnny…

— Hayley Williams

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

— Andrew Bird

What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel…

— Wayne Wonder

Every performer should learn a little bit of everything. Most performers today only play the guitar.

— Debbie Reynolds

The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is…

— Lionel Richie

It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.

— Liam Payne

“(And could love free me from the shadows? Can a caged bird sing only the song it knows or can it learn…

— Angela Carter