Song Quotes · Page 744

“I’m sleepin’ in your pee pee, and I’m dreaming of what could be.” That’s just the chorus of a little love song…

— Jarod Kintz

Music is a good way to channel your fragile, vulnerable, needy side, but it's also something to rejoice in.

— Paolo Nutini

As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in…

— Thalia

I can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them.

— John Prine

I wouldn't want to write a song in a pair of sneakers. I think it would be a horrible song.

— Justin Tranter

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

— Patti Smith

Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.

— Daniel Barenboim

I like Vory. How he sings, his vibrato, and the content of what he's singing about.

— Rubi Rose

Bands such as LiLiPUT and Essential Logic were just as unorthodox as Gang of Four or Wire, even taking their sounds a…

— Anthony Fantano

As songwriters and artists we get a lot of attention and gratification when we write about the moments that have hurt us,…

— Victoria Monet

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something…

— Frank Ocean

The eighties turned the whole system upside down. They would sign three groups and give them five or ten million dollars each…

— Tony Visconti

I don't really play overseas stuff. I'm a bit of a dinosaur in that way. You gonna improve on a Les Paul…

— Frank Stallone

It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a…

— Stephen Mallinder

Otis Redding, his voice, there was something spiritual and unworldly and at the same time, very deeply connected with the human connection…

— Paul Rodgers

I didn't know Charlie Parker well, but I spent some time with him, and he was articulate and well-spoken with a lot…

— Benny Carter

Honestly, I would love to sing too but I don't have the courage to sing on a professional level.

— Rashami Desai

I've been running my own record label and doing my weekly radio shows, but people don't see the work. People only see…

— Hardwell

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

— Barry Manilow

I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.

— Damian Marley

In my opinion, you just have to make the music. Make the music and work as hard as you can to get…

— India Arie

I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what…

— Van Morrison

I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end…

— Conor Oberst

You don't need to be a performer in order to dive into the sensory experience of music. Simply get as close as…

— Hilary Hahn

The kind of head space that good songs come from is one of extreme emotion, extreme depth of feeling, which has an…

— CMAT

I did sing a track for Dhanush's '3,' but that's because the track required a voice like mine.

— Anirudh Ravichander

What makes a great song - you don't put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It…

— Diane Warren

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

— Evan Dando

My lyrics are quite train of thought, and they are all over the place, but they evoke something.

— St. Lucia

It's good having a lot of different songs to choose from to do the show. It means you don't get bored of…

— Bryan Ferry

Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.

— Langston Hughes

During 'Torches,' I was more concerned with communicating the spirit of the song than the actual lyrics.

— Mark Foster

“From love's plectrum arises the song of the string of life Love is the light of life love is the fire of…

— Allama Iqbal

Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.

— Rabindranath Tagore

There's no one songwriter in the band. It's collaborative, and we all have different tastes.

— Aaron Dessner

I don't like doing substandard work... I can't sleep at night if I make a bad song.

— Amaal Mallik

Eric Clapton wrote "Layla" when he was coked out of his mind. Later on, it nearly killed him.

— Lemmy Kilmister

Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.

— Dave Grohl

I've never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and…

— Justin Broadrick

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

— Van Morrison