Song Quotes · Page 609

My two sisters and I sang all the time. Whenever we cleaned the kitchen, we sang in three-part harmony.

— Kina Grannis

You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

— Betty Wright

Like a song of love that clings to me. How the thought of you does things to me.

— Natalie Cole

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.

— John Oates

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

— Billy Sherwood

It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

— Bela Bartok

Music definitely is part of my rhythm, you know I play with a rhythm so I have to listen to music.

— Earl Thomas

It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.

— Mick Taylor

My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it…

— Hugh Jackman

Lizz Wright, we call her lovingly 'Amazing Grace.' She has a folk and gospel kind of approach to the music, and she…

— Dianne Reeves

Lyrics are important, but it's hard, because English isn't my first language - although it feels like it is these days! I…

— Avicii

Lets start it with a goodnight kiss, my lips your lips, baby lets just skip getting there. Lets start it with a…

— Randy Houser

Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom…

— Imogen Heap

Most pop albums I was looking at as examples to point out production elements had a song that made you want to…

— Michelle Chamuel

I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it…

— Sting

Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.

— Carlos Santana

Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song;…

— Isaiah

We should be able to write songs for a new album every six months. If you think about it, it's not a…

— John Gourley

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

— Eli Siegel

Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.

— St. Vincent

I've always been an eccentric, a rocker at heart. I can't play the guitar, but I can play the griddle.

— Guy Fieri

A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it's been written.

— Bruce Springsteen

I tried to get a job in music but was too unique to stand behind someone as a backing vocal or to…

— Netta Barzilai

We don't tell you what to think or believe in. That's not our job. We're rock musicians. Our job is to rock.

— Sonny Sandoval

When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz.

— Jose James

Today I feel like it's about people just looking fresh and their records aren't fresh.

— Pusha T

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

— Gregory Harrison

We write constantly. It's nice to have more to pick from and we pitch songs to other artists, so it's not always…

— Martie Maguire

PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to…

— Greg Graffin

I've grown, and my passion for music has grown. I've become more advanced and I've enhanced my vocabulary. All around artist development.

— Lil Baby

Just when I thought it couldnt get no hotter I fell in love with the farmer's daughter

— Rodney Atkins

It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a…

— George Harrison

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played…

— Benjamin Booker

“If life had background music playing your song, I've got to be honest I try to escape you but the orchestra plays…

— Anberlin

Music is something you hear in your head, that's all, we shouldn't give it more than it is.

— Stanley Donwood

The holy grail for a music fan, I think, is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by…

— Aphex Twin

I think when you have a band that are so separate and isolated then you have to know each others styles and…

— Mat McNerney

I still listen to black metal all the time - that's obviously one of my favorite kinds of music - but I…

— George Clarke