Song Quotes · Page 124

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

— Igor Stravinsky

I think there will be a song for everyone on every album that I do.

— Laufey

At the end of the day, it's about how music makes you feel.

— Jonita Gandhi

“Her dress is the colour of marmalade, she chirps songs that have no words”

— Sarah Kay

Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

— Erykah Badu

The worst things in life come free to us

— Anonymous

“If people are not dancing to your tune, change the song.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I'm very enthusiastic about new music, old music - whatever.

— Leslie Uggams

I was really into the music of Cream after I finished composing the music for 'BTTB.'

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

“The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which…

— Khalil Gibran

The new age disc jockeys and program directors have accepted me as a new age artist, along with Shadowfax and the rest,…

— Barbi Benton

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I…

— Steven Wilson

There are reasons that bands and musicians make demos and outtakes - because they are not good enough to make the record.…

— Mike Patton

Occasionally and all-too-infrequently a song comes along that jolts you and you prick up your ears.

— Russell Mael

I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and…

— Tim McGraw

I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are…

— Kamasi Washington

A lot of times, people assume that I write all the songs: that I arrange them and I stick Kevin up there…

— Michael Bacon

One of the lyrics from Bono that always sticks with me is 'Where the Streets Have No Name.' Just the name of…

— Ed Kowalczyk

I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour…

— Sammy Cahn

I like the songs that are fun, that aren't gonna change the world - I've some of those - but even something…

— Cole Swindell

Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is…

— Frederick Douglass

There'll be amazing moments and there'll be less amazing moments, but you've got to sort of keep going forward, and remember why…

— Maisie Peters

But even if you're not a 'Scrubs' follower you'll still have a good time, because all the songs are recognizable and presented…

— Sam Lloyd

Song of Myself is a new kind of poem , which is shocked, puzzled, amused, amazed all the average readers, but it…

— Walt Whitman

Good music is very close to primitive language.

— Denis Diderot

There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress.

— Coleman Hawkins

When you listen to someone's songs, their soul comes through.

— Matt Ross

I think I'm a pioneer. I'm an outspoken musical conceptual pioneer.

— Peaches

You don't question where the music comes from, because it all comes from God.

— Timbaland

“I took the sing from your song. I made a bed where you don't belong.”

— Ben Howard

I keep starting supergroups, writing ballets and things like that.

— Rhiannon Giddens

I always say that if the song is strong enough, it'll stand on its own.

— James Ingram

I was born a lyric. My Mom, Melody, fed me quarter notes, made me a rockstar

— Michaleen O'neill

My father was a musician and wanted me to study piano. I had no interest.

— Joel Grey

When you're happy you enjoy music. but when you're sad, you understand music.

— James

Aerosmith-one of the 10 best bands today? Yeah definitely.

— Steven Tyler

I went from somebody who didn't sing to somebody who didn't speak.

— Gerard Butler

The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.

— Joshua Bell

I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

There's songs like 'Africa' that just have kind of become part of pop culture.

— Steve Porcaro