Song Quotes · Page 193

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

— John Armstrong

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time.

— Kurt Vile

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

— Vanessa Carlton

I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God.

— Ziggy Marley

We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.

— St. Jerome

All I ever wanted to do was hear music that I like and play it to other people

— John Peel

I'm actively going out onto the porch and noodling around on my guitar.

— Jemaine Clement

I can't judge myself by 'God Only Knows.' No one writes songs as good as that.

— Lindsey Buckingham

The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the…

— Jose Saramago

I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.

— Nish Kumar

I started singing and writing songs since childhood and later started releasing my independent music.

— Guru Randhawa

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

— Ed Kowalczyk

A lot of people see me just as a player. Music is how I introduce my life to people.

— Marvin Bagley III

We all know there are some major problems in the music industry. Every new act signs a bad deal.

— Martie Maguire

I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.

— Kim Gordon

Certain artists have a role to echo the echoes of the people and that's what I'll be doing on my next album.

— Jimmy Cliff

I think it's stripped down as far as electronics go, but we just wanted to write a record that we felt better…

— Jason C. Miller

I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from…

— Stevie Wonder

I find that I end up liking songs if I really have an idea of something I wat to write about-some problem…

— Rivers Cuomo

I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out…

— Regina Spektor

I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then…

— Dr. Seuss

You know, the age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because…

— Fiona Apple

There are other people coming out now, like Adele, people who are making their own music, doing their own stuff. That's a…

— Susan Ann Sulley

Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton…

— Dom DeLuise

Music is not just a part of my everday life, I'm surrounded by it every minute.

— Haley Reinhart

You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.

— Louis Armstrong

It all started with a song :) ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sds5SpNd1Mw

— Rachel

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

— Louis Armstrong

I'm not a classically trained composer, and I can't sing very well.

— Boots Riley

Even though we can't communicate using the same language, we use music instead.

— Kim Jong-hyun

Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.

— Mark Hoppus

I started playing guitar because of instrumental guitar music.

— Nita Strauss

“The masterpiece is symphony played upon our finest feelings.”

— Kakuzō Okakura

“He who is about to sing the fourth song is either a man or a stone or a tree.”

— Lautréamont

I don't want to write the same song over and over again.

— Lauren Mayberry

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

— Janet Jackson

It's fun hitting on the drums and singing songs.

— Rachel Trachtenburg

I'd like to become a singer who expresses myself more openly.

— Bae Suzy

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

— Steve Hackett

Music has a way of getting inside all of us and lifting us up.

— Marc Platt