Song Quotes · Page 526

And the input that we always got from Deadheads, at the moment of making the music, was always a factor.

— Phil Lesh

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to…

— K. D. Lang

I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her…

— Gordon Lightfoot

We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.

— Henry Miller

My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.

— Augusten Burroughs

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

— Rosanne Cash

“The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have…

— M.F. Moonzajer

You can't help but have your children and your family be part of what you dream about when you dream up a…

— Stone Gossard

I think mp3s are great if you are unknown and trying to get started. It's a good way to get your music…

— Crystal Waters

Not to be a bummer, but heartbreak is great for inspiration - we all know that - and it's really hard to…

— MO

The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me,…

— Kelsea Ballerini

On No Doubt's second visit to Paisley Park, sometime around 1999, we were working on a song with Prince called Waiting Room,'…

— Tony Kanal

I mean to me, the harpsichord has a huge dynamic range. And I always say to people, come and listen to it.…

— Mahan Esfahani

Writing a love song when I was 19 is very different than writing a love song when I'm 25. You're more sophisticated;…

— Jason Derulo

My favorite kind of music is the stuff that stops time. You put something on to sit there and let an experience…

— Jeff Buckley

I started to play noise on my cello because I felt a deep personal connection to it. I mean, I still love…

— Okkyung Lee

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one…

— D. H. Lawrence

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

— Nanci Griffith

The thing about the national anthem is that it's actually a pretty difficult song to sing for anybody.

— Kevin Olusola

My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.

— George Henry Lewes

I don't have to play the song all the way to the very end - I use it while it's good and…

— Quentin Tarantino

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

— Roy Blount, Jr

My mum dated a guy from Liverpool. The Liverpool fans made up a song that she 'loves Scouse c*ck'

— John Terry

Music is what feelings sound like, and to sing a meaningfully melodious composition like 'Suno apne dil ki' is a rarity.

— Kumar Sanu

I think the earnestness of what we're saying and what other bands like us are totally saying - or other queer bands…

— Ben Hopkins

My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and…

— Sara Zarr

When you're playing guitar, it's the tiny little nuances that make the difference. For me, obviously, tunings is a huge one.

— Ben Howard

If you can take a piece of life and put it in a song, it's going to be a good song -…

— Jon Pardi

Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.

— Ne-Yo

I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and…

— Dawn Richard

As a matter of fact my, my very first time singing when I was two and a half, three, was in church.…

— Teddy Pendergrass

My first real real guitar I had was a Charvel, model 1 and that was when I was 15, I think, I got that.

— Jim Root

You can practice for 30 years and still not be a Mozart. The most lethal combination would be a Mozart who practiced…

— John Medina

If you are ever feeling down, just turn up the music! Let the lyrics impact you & remind you that you are…

— BOTDF

In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs.

— Kim Hyesoon

We used to go to the jazz fest in Kansas City. And my mother and father took me.

— David Steward

I know how I feel about my music and how passionate I am. I'm not a fly-by-night dude.

— Scarface

If you are blessed with good vocals then it doesn't mean you start picking up anyone's song and start singing it. You…

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing

— Gerry Mulligan