Song Quotes · Page 704

Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little banjo where no one could see me.

— Rupert Grint

I try to take my own advice in terms of the type of music I create for my fans - upliftment, positivity,…

— Koffee

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

— Holly Near

Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

— Virgil Thomson

When you've got insane drums and a lot of guitar, it's really hard to mix the vocals, to mix it all well.

— Marnie Stern

Still, the music was always there, and the lyrical capability was always threatening to show its head.

— George Michael

The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will.

— Irene Thomas

Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.

— Donald Miller

Some people don't have a way of that catharsis and I do, so I'm lucky in that sense that people listen to…

— Ellie Goulding

Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person…

— Bette Midler

You need to take risks, you never know if the end results will be beautiful or strange, you need to be instantaneous,…

— Brian Blade

When I was a kid, I used to listen to my Emerson radio late at night under the covers. I started by…

— Frankie Valli

The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity…

— Frederic Chopin

“Would you like to?” he says. His voice is hardly audible above the wind— so low it’s barely a whisper. “Would I…

— Lauren Oliver

I think record cover sleeves really led towards, but at the same time the album as we know it didn't come into…

— DJ Spooky

I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing…

— Bonnie McKee

I sit at the piano for a couple of hours and tinker away until I get something. I am a nocturnal spirit,…

— Thomston

“I think that if Mozart were alive today and decided to become a novelist, he would write humorous fantasy.”

— Frank P. Ryan

There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.

— Jimi Hendrix

Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put…

— Talib Kweli

One of the features of being a piano player is playing as an accompanist for other people.

— Leon Russell

I always write music if I'm feeling a bit rubbish and I don't know how to get over or through something.

— Tom Walker

Axl [Rose] is not the type of person to make something up. So I was sort of shocked that he went that…

— Slash

Playing the piano is incredibly personal... But when it's your own piece, it's doubly so.

— Stephen Hough

I was writing songs because I needed them, songs about trusting God in difficult circumstances.

— Matt Hammitt

“They solved the problem of coexistence through the use of individual stereo headphones.”

— Stephen Billias

I have an urban background, but I need melody, I need a song, so I try to mix and match and keep…

— Negash Ali

“classical musicians are now as subject to marketing principles as any other performers.”

— Renee Fleming

The first song I wrote was for my friend. She was going through a really tough time.

— Noah Cyrus

I want to have not only the good side of life but the bad side of life. And the both combined is…

— Stromae

Lars [Ulrich] of Metallica is one of the worst drummers I've ever heard, but they hide it because they spend millions recording.

— Slim Moon

I believe the right lyric and melody can soar beyond the clouds to the ears of the heavens.

— Jimmie Allen

The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.

— Kevin Spacey

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

— Solange Knowles

If you've got a good melody and a good story married together, that's a good sign for hit-song material.

— Glen Campbell

I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it.

— Sarah McLachlan

I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.

— Ruben Studdard

There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.

— Scott McClanahan

'Fix' was a song that definitely put me on the map and changed everything for in me my career. I'm really thankful…

— Chris Lane

Though the inspiration for my songs almost always comes from things that are happening around me, I am definitely not always the…

— Thalia Zedek