Song Quotes · Page 555

We didn't want to be the girlfriends of the Beatles. We wanted to be the Beatles.

— Nancy Wilson

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

— Stan Lee

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing

— Michael Bolton

And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!

— Lord Byron

There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.

— Rumi

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.

— Travis Tritt

I wanna be one of those special guys. Jimi Hendrix wasn't afraid of who he was. That's the part I emulate.

— Future

I suppose my forcefulness will improve once my voice changes. Sopranos get no respect.

— Patricia Grasso

Electric Gypsy' was really raw. I was literally sketching out the lyrics as they walked in the door. I jumped up and…

— Mike Campbell

It was not very hard to do a double album. Nobody thinks it's a good idea if you're an unknown singer-songwriter. But…

— Nellie McKay

Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have…

— Zayn Malik

When 'Wherever I Lay My Hat' went to number one in 1983, I was still driving a green Viva HC that my…

— Paul Young

The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a…

— Paul Weller

It's kind of like a college degree... when you get one, no one can take it from you. When you get to…

— Luke Bryan

“You measure a good song the same way you measure architecture, fashion, or any other artistic endeavor. Time. You know when you…

— Adam Carolla

“The songs of Japan take the human heart as their seed and flourish as myriad leaves of words. As long as they…

— Anonymous

With 'Pink Polo,' I wanted something I could listen to when I was doing different activities during the summer and also bring…

— Masego

Music is a part of someone's soul. Music is a feeling for me. And if that soul is evil, then I don't…

— Yungblud

I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me…

— Valerie June

The fate of the African continent does not f-ing depend on a load of f-ing musicians in Hyde Park singing f-ing s-t…

— Noel Gallagher

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

— Leonard Bernstein

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is…

— Jean-Baptiste Joseph Emile Montegut

Since my baby left me, I've found a new place to dwell, down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel.

— Elvis Presley

I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something.

— Will Champion

“A map is a song. It's different when different people sing it. . .You will make this your own song, sing it…

— Katherine Catmull

“Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.

— Alice Cary

“... She may think this song means I like her, But she’d be very wrong, I was bored in macro, so I…

— Chelsea M. Cameron

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

— Karl Lagerfeld

We're all writing out of a wound, and that's where our song comes from. The wound is singing. We're singing back to…

— Dorianne Laux

Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.

— Gustav Holst

Everyone has been telling these great James Taylor stories, and nothing for me says it better than this song.

— Carole King

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

— John Coltrane

And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.

— Amy Tan

Tell me how many songs that I must sing before I can see you in your glory, hear your whole entire story,…

— Trevor Hall

You learn a lot about people when youlisten to songs that mean something to them.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I love making music so it's important for me to keep doing that even if the schedule is busy.

— Michael Kiwanuka

As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in…

— Sam Hunt

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

— Georg Solti

Every time I would think about my purpose, the answers seemed to come in sounds. In melodies. In feelings.

— David Archuleta