Song Quotes · Page 599

In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.

— Bonnie Tyler

No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts…

— William Osler

It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.

— Jonathan Davis

We've won both the best and worst band in so many major magazines - we just get written off so much, but…

— Andy Biersack

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.

— Graham Nash

I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things…

— Jessye Norman

Surely there's a deeper pursuit to music than getting bros to pump their fists in the air.

— Kevin Parker

You can tell when a song has come from the heart and is genuine, and it moves you more when you can…

— Arlo Parks

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was…

— Martin Luther

Life is like a piano. Each single key gives you a tune. A tune after tune gives you a melody. You don't…

— Islam Elnady

I'm working on one of the projects at a time and I'm the zone of that project. I'm not saying there's anything…

— Bradford Cox

“As wonderful as it is to be able to hear your song, sometimes it's nice to just stop, turn your volume down…

— Lenita Vangellis

'Watchmen' is like the music you feel is written just for you. 'That's my song, no one else gets that but me.'…

— Zack Snyder

I'm always scouring the universe for great old instruments from the '50s and early '60s. That's really, for me, the golden age…

— Geddy Lee

Marvin Gaye said there's a song inside of me and I can't get it out. And I know it's in there, and…

— Will Smith

This is a song for the broken girl The one pushed aside by the cold, cold world You are Hear me when…

— Rachel Copeland

I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

— Cannonball Adderley

I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s.

— Rickey Medlocke

Some songs we heard again and again not because we don't understand it but because we feel it very much.

— Nishan Panwar

But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take…

— Eric Clapton

There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a…

— Peter Shaffer

Don't get me wrong, I have the utmost respect for anyone who has the nerve to even attempt to do music today,…

— St. Lucia

We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.

— Maddie Marlow

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on…

— Yoko Ono

Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.

— Herbie Hancock

“Music is the best storage for human memory. As soon as you hit play, it can take you back in time”

— Ela Crain

I don't know if I would compare my sound to anyone because I like to think that my music is my music.

— Noah Cyrus

Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

— Lara St. John

I've started to look at guitar playing from more than just a standpoint of using certain modes and techniques.

— Jim Root

I'm talented in other places, not only in songwriting, but music is always going to be the backdrop to whatever happens in…

— The-Dream

As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.

— Mike Stoller

While there is a typical introduction song for the hero, there are songs that represent each phase of the characters' journey.

— Mani Sharma

Words have been the most difficult thing for me. Melodies have been the easiest for me; I have more than enough melodies…

— Leon Russell

Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors…

— Anna Thomas

I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want…

— Maluma

“You are your art Your are your song You are your craft. You are all the immaculate designs of which you dream;”

— Priscilla Koranteng

“Oh, the drums, of course,” Jase says. “It was the clarinet, but then he realized that was just not a turn-on.”

— Anonymous

I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of... I guess…

— Eric Bachmann

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad…

— William Wordsworth

When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.

— Conor Oberst