Song Quotes · Page 709

I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my…

— Anna Akhmatova

I'm a huge karaoke person even though I have the worst singing voice. When you love doing something, who cares?

— Hoda Kotb

I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can…

— Andre Previn

I didn't want to write a sad song to remind me of the fact that I'm always moving around. I wanted something…

— Alice Merton

Certain artists have a role to echo the echoes of the people and that's what I'll be doing on my next album.

— Jimmy Cliff

I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.

— Kim Gordon

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

— Alicia Keys

“Instead of narrowing our allegiances to only include our favored nation, let us sing an anthem to the marvelous human being.”

— Bryant McGill

In order to actually have a touchscreen in front of me and somehow still be connected to nature, I needed to be…

— Bjork

He [Johnny Cash] always wanted to use his music to lift other people up, to say no matter how much trouble, there's…

— Robert Hilburn

Well my dad forced me into playing the violin when I was about three and it all started from there. I went…

— Tom Misch

When the Beatles were on 'Ed Sullivan,' life went from black and white to color like in 'The Wizard of Oz' -…

— Steve Lukather

I'm not that type of musician where I can sit down at the piano and work out a song; I actually really…

— Dave Gahan

Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the…

— Kenny G

I think the last album I bought was a very beautiful album called 'Lost Wisdom' by Mount Eerie featuring Julie Doiron, and…

— Withered Hand

We were far from being the kind of band that threw TVs out of hotel windows. In fact, we carried our own…

— Paul Young

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

— Mickie James

Song falls silent, music is dumb, But the air burns with their fragrance, And white winter, on its knees, Observes everything with…

— Anna Akhmatova

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.

— Roger McGuinn

“And what was the song which she sang? Ah, my little man, I am too old to sing that song, and you…

— Charles Kingsley

People are familiar with my songs, especially through Eric Clapton. But I have a hard time drawing a crowd, because I have…

— J. J. Cale

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.

— Bryan Adams

I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken…

— Nikka Costa

Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up…

— James Young

A lot of people see me just as a player. Music is how I introduce my life to people.

— Marvin Bagley III

We all know there are some major problems in the music industry. Every new act signs a bad deal.

— Martie Maguire

Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this…

— Charles Spurgeon

I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations you have to always consider that.

— Kenneth Edmonds

The worst thing about not being president anymore is I was disoriented for three weeks because nobody every played a song when…

— William J. Clinton

I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very…

— Alvin Lee

My dad played in different clubs and open mic nights. But he mostly walked dogs. A lot of dogs.

— Rachel Trachtenburg

For as long as I'm able to write songs and sing them, it's just about making them ones I feel proud to…

— Steve Forbert

...after using your stuff on a jug band full of instruments, all I can say is Thank You Dr. Duck !...

— John Sebastian

I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band.

— Florence Welch

I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things…

— John Lloyd Young

Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

When I first picked up an instrument, nothing really happened. I played piano when I was a little kid. I hated it…

— Phoebe Bridgers

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the…

— Stendhal

No matter how much life sucks sometimes. There is always some kind of escape and mine just so happens to be MUSIC.

— Anonymous

I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.

— Justin Townes Earle