Song Quotes · Page 721

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

— Gavin Bryars

You can see when that happens with bands when they do TV appearances; they just shut down. They get really irritated.

— Jancee Dunn

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I…

— Gladys Knight

A lot of people say, 'AC/DC - that's the band with the little guy who runs around in school shorts!'

— Angus Young

My dad had a great record collection, which included some music from Mexico, and so I always loved it.

— Michael Giacchino

I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make.

— Richard Marx

I'm trying to be a professional singer. ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change.

— Susan Boyle

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would…

— Taylor Swift

I never stop learning about the various sounds that are being produced around the globe, and since the sound keeps evolving, the…

— Tanishk Bagchi

Music is shared. It's a shared feeling; that's what music is all about. When you listen to a song with someone else,…

— Tom Odell

I see myself as a traditionalist. I like traditional things. I like things of substance and value that have been proven. Conceptually,…

— Jakob Dylan

I want to collaborate with Amy [Winehouse] because she's really hot and cool right now. I know one song Rehab was very…

— Sheryl Crow

This is how much of a music geek I am: if I have a day with nothing to do, one of my…

— Rebecca Hall

I just saw a girl who said she saw John Lennon walking down the street in New York wearing a button that…

— Harry Nilsson

So where a lot of people will spend three weeks on one song, I will write 10 in three weeks. Maybe the…

— Sia

Celebration never need depend on outside circumstances. We need not wait for a special holiday or a formal occasion, nor a sunny…

— Rajneesh

I had to sing. I couldn't not sing. If it was singing to a living room full of people or an auditorium,…

— Anne Murray

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't…

— Brad Paisley

You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.

— Douglas Adams

First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.

— La'Porsha Renae

I don't just like fillers, and I never put a filler on a record. I mean, I want every song on every…

— Sara Evans

Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop - nobody cares!

— Kacey Musgraves

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.

— Paul Simon

When people ask me if I have a boyfriend, I tell them it’s my guitar because, really, it’s what I love and…

— Michelle Branch

The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.

— Aldis Hodge

“There are times in life to play it safe. I'm sure you can think of several. Music is not one of them.”

— Deke Sharon

I'd tell anyone starting in music, 'don't think that you and your songs alone will get you anywhere.'

— Jack Savoretti

In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.

— Lewis H. Lapham

You either swing a band or don't swing a band and that's what's lacking today.. There aren't any guys who get back…

— Buddy Rich

There's been times that I did songs with people and they didn't put me on their album, I just respect their vision.

— Nav

“I know my breasts, small as plums, would win no blue ribbons. But in your hands they tremble and fill with song…

— Cecilia Llompart

Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in.

— Gwenno

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

— John Cale

Rock & roll is dying. It’s frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now.

— Kurt Cobain

I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you…

— Liam Gallagher

I don't keep up with it all. But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right? What a way…

— Michael J. Fox

And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.

— Duncan Sheik

In music, four is the number that every measure is - four by four, four beats to every measure. The number four…

— Jason Derulo

My mom listened to a lot of house music. My dad listened to a lot of roots and dub. I've got a…

— Jacob Anderson