Song Quotes · Page 119

Wynton Marsalis is jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.

— Keith Jarrett

For us, all we care about is maintaining what we do as a band.

— Andy Biersack

I'm totally obsessed with sound. It's my life.

— Julian Treasure

I've done so much songwriting and I know how to do it.

— Ester Dean

If I wasn't a singer, I would be a fairy princess.

— Dua Lipa

Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!

— Anonymous

I can only say this with all relative humility: I saw myself as a Beatle.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.

— Felix Mendelssohn

We don't really talk about music that much, to be honest with you. It's not some I usually - I can't really…

— Sean Booth

People would think I wouldn't like Noel Coward. I think he was the original punk in a lot of ways. You know.…

— Kathy Burke

“Everything has been composed, just not yet written down. LETTER TO LEOPOLD MOZART [1780]”

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

We never could have foreseen the success of 'Babel.' It's not like banjo records were soaring up the charts, you know.

— Ted Dwane

I sit a lot with my lyrics - I don't write just to write or put a line in just to have…

— Snoh Aalegra

I'm with you once more under the stars and down by the shore an orchestra's playing and even the palms seem to…

— Beegie Adair

My original goal was to get into the Top 100. I listened to every song in the Top 100 every day. I…

— Porter Robinson

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

— Mika

The gods made our bodies as well as our souls, is it not so? They give us voices, so we might worship…

— Anonymous

“She has the sort of body you go to see in marble. She has golden hair. Quickly, deftly, she reaches with both…

— John McPhee

My favorite song that I wrote is 'Love Line.' This was my first song that I wrote lyrics for, and I really…

— Jeongyeon

I grew up listening to Switchfoot. I love Switchfoot; they're a great band. John Foreman is awesome. I really dig mainstream pop…

— Shane Harper

I've been essentially not only deconstructing and reconstructing the material to make it suitable for the performance, but I've gone back and…

— Todd Rundgren

We're not ignored by The Guinness Book Of Records, but we've been largely ignored by the media during our lifetime. If you…

— Roger Waters

(Ooh, ooh, sweet love, yeah) I didn't mean it When I said I didn't love you, so I should have held on…

— Mariah Carey

When you're feeling joyful, you are giving joy, and you'll receive back joyful experiences, joyful situations, and joyful people, wherever you go.…

— Rhonda Byrne

I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

— Brett Dennen

I've been singing since I was very young.

— Jonita Gandhi

It's a sad state when more people retweet than buy records.

— Noel Gallagher

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.

— Mahalia Jackson

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

— Mark Ronson

When I write music it's hard for me to keep it going repetitively.

— Visionist

I just want to make the best music I can make.

— Kelsea Ballerini

Every time I re-perform a song, I gain some perspective.

— Sharon Van Etten

Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.

— Jean Sibelius

The drum is surely the lord of music, is it not?

— Xunzi

Once I know a song really well, I can then have fun dancing.

— Lindsey Stirling

I'm grateful to God that I'm able to praise his glory through my music.

— Adnan Sami

Let me whisper it. Let me sigh it. Let me sing it, my dear or I will cry it.

— Shirley Horn

There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

— Branford Marsalis

Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.

— William J. Clinton

I'm always going to be experimenting musically, trying new things.

— Lil Nas X