Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peggy Lee

Sometimes I want to revive a song or medley I did that went over with the crowd.

Brandon Heath

You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!

Brad Paisley

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard

Brad Paisley

I like to look at the songs like they're little movies.

Jana Kramer

I never want to be too mean with my songs, but with I Hope It Rains it was definitely somewhere in the middle with being sassy but also a little class in there as well. It was a good blend for me and who I want to be perceived as an artist.

Ben E. King

I think that the song, the song "Stand By Me" is one of those songs that... and someone asked me, what was you thinking about or what was you feeling about? It's something that, songwriters just write songs. It's like an artist that paints. They paint what they feel. It's not, it's not about how many of these painting I'll sell it's just how they feel at the moment. And that's how I wrote "Stand By Me".

Ben E. King

Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public.

Ben E. King

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

Carl Sandburg

An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me."

Cameron Crowe

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

Miley Cyrus

I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.

Miley Cyrus

A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called 'True Friend'.

Busta Rhymes

I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I'm sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs.

Celine Dion

Every song will be a video. Its going to be very spectacular.

Carrot Top

Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it.

Alan Cumming

If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it's a song they know very well.

Alan Cumming

Usually, there's a story I've told that leads up to why I'm singing the song. The whole concept of the show was about being authentic and connecting with these songs. The best way to do that was in a room with an audience and for people to listen to that.

Al Yankovic

I'd like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.

Al Yankovic

I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

Al Yankovic

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

Charles R. Swindoll

I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.

Charles Kelley

I think for new artists the hardest thing is putting the face with a name. People maybe heard our song on the radio or something but until they get several impressions of who you are - from whatever it is, whether TV or a live show, I feel like they don't quite connect the dots.

Channing Tatum

I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug "Want to kill ya" song, I'm ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I'm very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions.

I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I've got to do something with you.

Blake Lively

You rock so, you rock so, you dip so, you dip so, you skank so, you skank so, and don't be no drag! You come so, you come so, for reggae is another bag!

Jamie Lynn Spears

I think sometimes I forget that I'm 25, and I can have fun, and be flirty, and be confident, but still be completely in control. All of my new songs are empowering, but at the same time they're fun. I think that's important for women. You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.

Janis Joplin

I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

Janet Jackson

All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.

Miley Cyrus

If you don't like my songs, don't hear it. If you don't like my music videos, don't watch it. If you hate me, I don't care.

Miley Cyrus

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

Miley Cyrus

It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it

Miley Cyrus

I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.

Austin Mahone

I would go on the iTunes chart and see the hottest songs, then I'd cover them. People would go on YouTube and search for those songs. That's how I got my views. I'd post two or three songs a week.