Song Quotes · Page 266

I think my set is more so mixed in everything. It's not just EDM.

— Mustard

Just like using an instrument, a song calls for different things.

— Aldous Harding

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

— Charles Spurgeon

I don't know really, apart from Barnes & Noble, where you buy CDs anymore.

— John Waite

I could do anything. I'll do a rock-star song.

— Sexyy Red

If I could be a musician, I'd do it. I love singing.

— Rebecca Hall

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.

— Anonymous

I think my love for rhythm in language comes from repeating the same words, the same sounds, over and over again day…

— Nathan Englander

The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.

— Billy Corgan

The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread…

— Billy Joel

When someone ask you to listen to a song, it's because the lyrics means everything they're trying to say.

— Anonymous

If you're writing a song about a relationship ending, what you're really doing is honoring how much that person meant to you.

— Conor O'Brien

Whenever I have a problem, I sing. Then I realize that my voice is a lot worse than my problem.

— Ritu Ghatourey

If you're shocked that Britney was lip-syncing at her concert and want your money back, life may continue to be hard for…

— John Mayer

I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother. It was sort of hard for me…

— Joely Fisher

Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can't be raised all the time, in my experience. This…

— Mick Jagger

I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs. Today,…

— Tony Bennett

I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second life in…

— Steven Tyler

I'm really nervous about coming off as exclusive or elitist. At the same time, I recognize that when I put out vinyl…

— Phil Elverum

I kind of think that's the best way to operate; even when I'm in sessions writing with other artists, I'm always pulling…

— Caroline Polachek

It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom.…

— Pat Metheny

I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day; Have clapped my hands at him…

— Robert Frost

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these…

— Edie Falco

Music speaks when no words can express your feelings.

— Anonymous

Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.

— Boy George

Th best feeling is getting lost into music

— Anonymous

She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.

— Eric Roth

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't think music should be free.

— Trent Reznor

My music was made with everyone in mind with no prejudice towards anyone.

— Harry Wayne Casey

Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.

— Paul Simon

The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.

— Francois Mauriac

I personally think Miles Davis is a lot funnier than me. And he's working more.

— Gilbert Gottfried

Songs I do have to strike an emotional chord the first time I sing them.

— Keith Whitley

Rock N Roll even gonna set you free. Make the lame walk and the blind to see.

— Motorhead

I'm so happy people have enjoyed listening to my tracks.

— Kygo

There's a warmth, obviously, with vinyl that you just don't get with CDs.

— Myles Kennedy

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

— Natalie MacMaster

In the songs that I write, that's where I get to be really brave and outspoken.

— Emily Kinney

If we don't have great music, we're not any company.

— Scott Borchetta