Song Quotes · Page 603

Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.

— James Brown

My grandmother and my mother and my grandfather, their style of praying was - all day long, they would pray by singing…

— Gregory Porter

I have songs about growing up, about ex-relationships - ex-relationship, I should say.

— Shawn Mendes

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

— Jimmy Page

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

— Franz Liszt

For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.

— Maurice Jarre

You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert . . .

— Michael Herr

Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set…

— Gotye

We would liken music to Aladdin's lamp — worthless in itself, not so for the spirits which obey its call. We love…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I identified very much with punk, not only in the fashion sector, but in every other sector. The very nature of doing…

— Rei Kawakubo

The music that inspires the souls of lovers exists within themselves and the private universe they occupy. They share it with each…

— Nathaniel Branden

The downloads, the licensing, commercials, radio - it's made me more money than any song I've ever written, and it only went…

— Sammy Hagar

“Are you - are you sad?" - No. "But your - your songs are sad." - My songs are of time and…

— William Gibson

A lot of times I have the song inside of me and I have to fight to get it out. I'm a…

— Zola Jesus

The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop…

— Barry Manilow

Working with other people, it's hard to get them to make it sound like what you have in mind. Also, it's really…

— Nina Nesbitt

Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

— Cab Calloway

Dear radio, Why do you always play the best song right when I have to turn the car off and get out?!…

— Anonymous

I think for a classical musician the goal is the same as an electronic musician. A very good professional classical musician must…

— Gregor Schwellenbach

Love is just a song which is listen by many but few people will only understand the lyrics of it

— Tjalekganya

I could have guessed it all along, cuz now some drama queen is gonna write a song for me

— Emilie Autumn

I sang in the choir growing up and more recently served on the worship team at my church in California.

— Deborah Joy Winans

True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame…

— Pat Martino

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

— Anonymous

I think I'd like to see CDs disappear. Too much plastic crap lying around. If I want some music these days, I'm…

— Ted Leo

I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty…

— Q-Tip

Heavy metal is the enemy. Everybody but me keeps going back and forth between metal and punk, but I'm narrow-minded and a…

— Kim Shattuck

Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.

— Iris Murdoch

Whether I'm writing for myself or someone else, I'll always write a song that I would feel comfortable singing.

— Charli XCX

For me, music is about expressing the inexpressible, and as I get older, man, what I feel the need to express becomes…

— Devin Townsend

I just want to reach a point where I have an opportunity to impact the entire world with one song.

— Kyle

I've done eight grades of piano training from Trinity College and also done my sound engineering course.

— Anirudh Ravichander

You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to…

— Diana Krall

It is not easy for me to sing consonants, and I am sorry if I don't sing the 'S'.

— Jose Carreras

I don't know if any genuine, meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a…

— Tom Waits

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from,…

— James Mercer

Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was…

— Odeya Rush

Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.

— Alexis De Veaux

“He had a clear, lyrical voice and his songs remained in her ears long after the music had ended.”

— Hiroko Sherwin

I also have to support my speaking voice by sitting in a way that engages the diaphragm in the way I would…

— Lesley Garrett