Song Quotes · Page 738

There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So…

— Van Morrison

She's got a way about her, And everywhere she goes, a million dreams of love surround her, everywhere.

— Billy Joel

I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

— Taylor Swift

The basis of everything I do is down to the song. If I don't have the song I don't sing, and if…

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

People forgot about us, which was what we wanted. We could be left alone without any pressure to make music.

— Curt Smith

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's…

— Simon Cowell

We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical…

— Kristin Davis

But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I…

— Terry Kath

As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And…

— Nate Ruess

But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little…

— Vanessa Carlton

We live in more pragmatic times than when we originally recorded those songs. But many of the dreamers of the '60s have…

— Paul Stookey

Recorded music is basically free now. I used to tour to promote a CD, but now I make a CD to promote…

— Peter Frampton

Sometimes you have really meaningful deep sexual experiences or you experience attraction but it may be fleeting or may it be something…

— Adam Levine

'Honey, I'm Good' is a song about temptation, and we wanted to show what is possible if you can beat it.

— Andy Grammer

I think Everclear is a weird combination of a singer-songwriter and a hard-rock band. That's why some people really dig the band,…

— Art Alexakis

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

— Jack Black

I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs. There's no reason for it, but it stays around because there are still people that…

— Conor Oberst

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

— Paul McCartney

I personally am into the minstrel technique - if I hear someone playing a lute or playing a crumhorn, it just moves…

— Joe Satriani

I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people…

— Debby Ryan

We were never a frivolous band; we prided ourselves on having something to say, and I think that's what gives your songs…

— Dolores O'Riordan

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

— Kate Smith

And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song…

— Dierks Bentley

If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?

— Maya Angelou

WFMU is so experimental that you can go hours without hearing something that resembles an actual song.

— Ken Freedman

It is only at shows when fans keep asking me to sing a particular song that I end up realising that it's…

— KK

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

— Michael Levine

A long time ago I started talking into a balloon so I could feel myself talking, to practice judging volume, and compare…

— Mandy Harvey

“He's the 'him' in every sentence that really matters; he's the 'he' in every song.”

— Emery Lord

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

— Flannery O'Connor

I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random…

— Macklemore

I consider our music a catalyst, something that might spark a thought or a question.

— Ed Kowalczyk

“It’s amazing how inspirational posters and “soothing” music can make you want to punch yourself in the face.”

— Tracey Ward

He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.

— Khalil Gibran

There was something punk rock about Bobby Kennedy not going where the pollsters said or where consultants said. He was unmoored from…

— Beto O'Rourke

Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

— John Lydon

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling…

— Susan Orlean