Song Quotes · Page 811

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— Jeanette Kobayashi

There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.

— Geoff Downes

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do…

— Stephen Sondheim

“That is all I need to make a room full of happiness-two boys, one love, and a song.”

— David Levithan

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a…

— Charles Hazlewood

music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.

— Irene Nemirovsky

I'm one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start.

— Jeremy Denk

I think part of the process of putting out a record is always looking back because, by the time a song comes…

— Frankie Cosmos

“The houses have been condemned on Memory Lane I’m tired of this struggle that leaves everything the same I’ve tried so hard…

— David Levithan

“But part of love is a record playing, a needle that drops over and over, repeat and repeat, until the voices are…

— Esm�aji Codell

But especially in America when you've got four people in a room and they do a songwriting day, well one of them…

— Tony Hadley

Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Jake La Botz is a creator of dark poetry and haunting song, the kind of music that gets in your bones and…

— Jerry Stahl

I don't want to be broke. Never again. That's why I try to put those things in my songs because when I…

— Rich Homie Quan

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible…

— Anonymous

The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to…

— Cornelia Funke

For me, music is this incredibly cerebral trip. You turn on the radio or put on a record, and it's your song,…

— Billy Squier

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every…

— Richard Wagner

Both this song ['Black Skinhead'], 'I Am a God' and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn't let me into his…

— Kanye West

I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it.…

— Tom Jones

I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do.

— Lana Del Rey

Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had…

— Scott Adams

I had a lot of teachers. When I think about my upbringing I feel like the most fortunate person. It was a…

— Bill Ward

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten…

— Eric Clapton

“A new song begins, and in the dark, we listen, letting lyrics about love and suffering and hope fall over us.”

— Autumn Doughton

I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.'

— Dionne Warwick

I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing.

— Pete Townshend

I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string.

— Alannah Myles

It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.

— Angel Olsen

The urge to sing was so strong one day I performed in a club and it was very successful.

— Klaus Nomi

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

— Carrie Underwood

I really like when the lyrics in the music have an interesting relationship between one another - where they contrast each other.

— Caroline Polachek

I suppose I am more comfortable with jazz because I have been playing it that much longer, and also because classical music…

— Adnan Sami

My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me.

— Gerard Way

u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.

— Glenn Gould

The thing with Led Zeppelin songs is that they were never the same. They were very fluid and tight but loose.

— Jason Bonham

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

— PJ Harvey

Whether good or bad things happen, music allows you to separate yourself from reality a bit.

— HoYeon Jung

A lot of people change their band names because they're looking for a change of atmosphere.

— Justin Vernon

People send me songs all the time that are literally no-brainer hits... but for me, I'm an artist because I'm a writer.

— Kelsea Ballerini