Song Quotes
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I'm on the Internet a lot more than I watch TV and most everybody I know is, and yet if you watch most late-night talk shows, it's as if it doesn't even exist. So the Internet, it's just something I wanted to make use of in some way. I was fascinated by what appeared to be a child singing this song. It just struck me as funny.
Jimmy Kimmel
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Anyone who says the Backstreet Boys can't sing is crazy. They're probably just reading some highbrow critic who hates anyone the general public embraces. I'm sorry, but those boys sing their butts off. They work hard on their choreography, and on their harmonies. Their tracks are tight and solid. Their songs are musical and memorable.
Tony Orlando
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There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.
Jimmy Buffett
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Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.
Mike Gordon
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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
Rachel Carson
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I'm not really the scented envelope kid of girl, preferring instead to send yellow Jiffy-lite mailers packed with whatever song is on my mind.
Sarah Vowell
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Take a deep breath, listen to your favorite song and realize everything is gonna be okay, nothing is permanent.
Camila Cabello
Fifth Harmony
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To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It's like a conversation.
Ryan Adams
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And religious music and the sort of symbolism of it and everything. But I had this idea. Actually, I sort of dreamt it. I woke up - just before waking up one morning, I sort of dreamt this song or the idea of it and the first little bit of it. And I jumped out of bed and I thought, well, you're still asleep. You're going to forget this in a minute - you know, like you do when you've had a dream.
Nick Lowe
Brinsley Schwarz
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You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment.
Phil Collins
Genesis
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A frustration that I've had recently is that a lot of songs that I listen to draw on scenarios that aren't very realistic, so I just wanted to do something that was more down to earth. And I think my fans, who already know a lot about me, will learn something new.
Louis Tomlinson
One Direction
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Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.
Sharon Jones
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I tend to think that every new song I make is better than the last one.
Amber Giles
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Before music videos first came out, you’d listen to a song with headphones on, sitting in a beanbag chair with your eyes closed, and you’d come up with your own visions, these things that came from within. Then all of a sudden, sometimes even the very first time you heard a song, it was with these visual images attached, and it robbed you of any form of self-expression.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over when I share your need of pleasing.
Ava Gardner
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A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
Thomas Aquinas
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I was in orchestra in high school, but I really started when a friend of mine who's a drummer showed me some things. I was always just really fascinated with drums, it was the instrument I was always drawn towards. My ear sort of went to rhythmic aspects of music and songs.
Carla Azar
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Sing the song or keep it inside.
Scott Weiland
Stone Temple Pilots
