Song Quotes · Page 736

I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I…

— Flea

Jacques Brel's 'Song Of Old Lovers' - 'La Chanson Des Vieux Amants' - to me it's the greatest love song ever. It's…

— Jack Savoretti

I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat…

— Maya Angelou

If I wasn't a musician, I'd take up the law. They are the rottenest, wealthiest people in America.

— Chuck Berry

Whatever my singing aspirations are, you'll hear them in 'Aap Ka Suroor.' It's no run-of-the-mill album.

— Himesh Reshammiya

I know the music I hear and what I want. But sometimes I have to let that go and not try to…

— Van Hunt

When you're listening to my album, I want you to know that things happen and eventually you get over it

— Brooke Valentine

Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she…

— Carson McCullers

Some of songs are autobiographical and some of it is more telling a story from someone else's perspective. It's healthy for me…

— Jonathan Jackson

“If you're lucky, at the right time you come across music that is not only "great," or interesting, or "incredible," or fun,…

— Greil Marcus

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs…

— Anonymous

I pounded through the houses, staggering down the hallways, falling down the steps. It was a hot streaky dawn full of insecticides,…

— Francesca Lia Block

For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety.…

— Marcel Tabuteau

The best songs that I write usually come in, like, two minutes, and I think a lot of songwriters would probably say…

— Lauren Hart

Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the…

— James Russell Lowell

On the musical side, I always wanted to kind of carry on Pink Floyd's sound. You know, Pink Floyd always had such…

— Corey Feldman

On a very technical level, I am a geek who is interested in the intricacy of rhythm playing, so I like comparing…

— Justin Adams

Some of the songs I wanted to be really full, [but] there's something to be said for just a voice and a…

— Ingrid Michaelson

I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.

— Tracy Chapman

I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write.

— Linda Perry

Sometimes I'll have a whole song done without having a beat - I'll just rap on an instrumental tempo and recreate a…

— Tyga

My album will manifest many things I saw,did or heard about; I talk first hand never word of mouth.

— O.C

It's incredible to have songs that change very drastically from beginning to end.

— Benson Boone

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and…

— Plato

Whether it's soundtracking a moment in my life or just motivating me to hit the gym, I constantly have music playing. Even…

— Reid Scott

It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music…

— Warren Zevon

I think when you put a new record out, everyone has a song or two that they feel people will be moved…

— Stone Gossard

Sister Simplicitie! Sing, sing a song to me,-- Sing me to sleep! Some legend low and long, Slow as the summer song…

— Sydney Thompson Dobell

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

— Al Yankovic

“Chantel plays the piece with such passion that I can only sum it up as this: If the notion of sublime were…

— Ella Frank

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

— Tommy Mottola

You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.

— Glenn Danzig

When I write, I'm writing as a fan, and trying to come up with songs that I would want to listen to.

— Matt Smith

That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen in our lives,…

— Mike D

I have a Gibson Thinline that I designed the body shape of, which I used a lot on the 'Fanatic' album that…

— Nancy Wilson

The one constant thread through my life so far is that I have been constantly fed and nourished by music.

— John Densmore

I've been doing that song ["Live Wire"] on my own for years, so no, I'm not worried about [high notes] at all.

— Vince Neil

When you hear my music and you feel the emotion, it's real. When you see me in a film and you see…

— Jennifer Hudson

The Beatles changed everything . I knew I couldn't compete, couldn't be as cool, so I went completely the other way.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

I had to figure out that finding my place was not about race but about creativity, and connecting with other artists helped…

— Courtney A. Kemp