Song Quotes · Page 149

Nelly Furtado has the right idea in reinventing herself.

— Anne Murray

When I compose an album, I don't think about how to adapt it on stage.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

“Writing is my oxygen. Music is my carbon dioxide.”

— Jessica Bell

'Is Qadar' is a beautiful melody that will resonate with people.

— Tulsi Kumar

All of my songs are about me and my experiences. They're very literal.

— Lily Allen

Music is my life, is my strong point, that's my love.

— Carrie Underwood

What we're most known for is the catchy choruses and the big hooks.

— Benji Madden

The Beatles are, first and foremost, my favorite band of all time.

— Taylor Momsen

Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four…

— Dave Van Ronk

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

— Stan Getz

It's [Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life.

— Jane Monheit

I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.

— Alan Palomo

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.

— Joni Mitchell

There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.

— John Cage

I'd love to write a song that someone else sings that can actually sing really well.

— Bo Burnham

The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting…

— Jennifer Egan

The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to…

— Valerie June

I listen to many forms of music. And I come from a very particular style and tradition of music, which has certain…

— Anoushka Shankar

“Shoats had pushed his chair back from the table to allow himself room for the guitar, between the table edge and his…

— William Gibson

I do find it easy to write songs about heartbreak; it comes really naturally to me. It was a little bit more…

— Marissa Nadler

I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become the victor and the vanquished. I…

— Michael Jackson

I never took singing lessons. I guess, I feel comfortable with it, but I do not feel like a singer. I never…

— Jack Johnson

Slow and quiet is way more difficult than hard and fast, any day of the week. So for me that's always a…

— Josh Freese

I think if there was an ISP tax of some sort, we can say to the consumer, 'All music is now available…

— Trent Reznor

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

— George Bernard Shaw

Playing a music bring you into another life; I mean your heartbeat

— Anonymous

We wouldn't last a year on the road playing music that we didn't love.

— Ted Dwane

why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?

— Don DeLillo

The song of the sea does not end at the shore

— Vivian Greene

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I think ballads transcend better into my work when I remix something.

— Cedric Gervais

We had always been a real band; Heart was never a construct.

— Ann Wilson

I don't look at myself as 'the singer in that rock band the Neighbourhood.'

— Jesse Rutherford

A smash is a song that pretty much everybody likes.

— Sisqo

Some get stoned, some get strange, but sooner or later it all gets real.

— Neil Young

Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.

— Damian Marley

To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual history of America.

— Rhiannon Giddens

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes

— Stephan Jenkins

“Music is LIFE and the written word is our SOUL...”

— Madison Daniel

“The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—”

— Joy Harjo