Song Quotes · Page 205

If everyone can make music. Make better music.

— Marilyn Manson

“There is a rhythm to our language. they echo the rhythm of our life.”

— ninotaziz

My dad put me onto Phil Collins and Dream Theater and all that stuff.

— Rich Brian

Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.

— Grace Slick

I think I just really, really love singing.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

Music touches you emotionally where words alone can't.

— Johnny Depp

Jazz is a racist musical form invented by whites to enslave blacks.

— Lyndon LaRouche

I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

— Abigail Washburn

I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire…

— Jessica Pare

It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.

— Morton Gould

When I was 6 years old, I asked my parents for an organ. I don't have any idea why I wanted an organ.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

The number-one thing about the hyphy isn't the sideshow or doing donuts. It's the music.

— Too Short

Every song becomes an emotional journey for me, and only then will the soul of the song remain honest.

— Anirudh Ravichander

It would be obvious for me to do conceptual art, and I think I've done it already with smashing bass guitars and…

— Paul Simonon

The way people come to church every week, know the songs and be hurting on the inside. We miss the moment to…

— Israel Houghton

I just know that young people suffer, and I also know music is one of the things that help you get through…

— Patti Smith

“the magazine compared him with John Lennon from the Beatles. I told that to Sam later, and she got really mad. She…

— Stephen Chbosky

So I did 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is…

— Deborah Cox

I could turn on my radio in the morning when I was getting dressed for school and hear Frank Sinatra and Duke…

— Woody Allen

I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves…

— Ester Dean

Cafe Tacvba make the music that naturally comes out of us. Since the beginning we've done what we wanted and people were…

— Joselo Rangel

Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that…

— Yuna

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always…

— Pierre Schaeffer

I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the…

— Alex Ebert

Jazz onstage is a very intimate exchange between everybody that's onstage.

— Dianne Reeves

This band doesn't owe anything to anybody.

— Ronnie Van Zant

...music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses...

— Anonymous

I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear.

— Kevin Richardson

I'm on Spotify and Soundcloud all the time.

— Edith Bowman

I always make music that is true to my spirit.

— Wynonna Judd

My singing is inspirational. When I sing, the people around me sing louder.

— Rock Cowles

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job

— Seamus Heaney

“There's no right or wrong in music, you know? Just everything in between.”

— Sarah Dessen

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

— Percy Heath

Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent.

— Tim Curry

I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.

— Courtney Love

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

— Charlie Parker

Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.

— Ray Charles

My initial impulse was to be an entertainer, a song and dance man.

— Denis Lawson

There's nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh.

— Ingrid Bergman