Song Quotes · Page 280

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

— Elliott Smith

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

— Caroline Corr

If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge.

— Damon Albarn

Punk to me is about fighting for something your passionate about.

— Adore Delano

I've always had a passion for music - it's a real part of me.

— Madison Beer

“It takes a song to hear a sound from heaven.”

— David O. Oyedepo

No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so.

— Herbert von Karajan

Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

— Alex Turner

What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you…

— Lester Bowie

Lyrically, I feel like there are things I always go back to, having to do with relationships.

— Alejandra Deheza

Music has been a fantastic guidance for me. I'll be eternally thankful for this guidance.

— Pinchas Zukerman

I just want my songs to be memorable, and for people to hear my songs in ten year's time and remember the…

— Cher Lloyd

I think that debut albums are supposed to sound sort of raw. You don't want to record 'Sgt. Pepper's' as your first…

— Taylor Hawkins

When your target is too far away from you, continue walking singing the song you like.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing…

— Richard Hovey

“I never talk during music, at least during good music. If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it…

— Oscar Wilde

I did 'Oh Holy Night,' which is one that I grew up listening to because I was in choir in high school…

— Sabrina Claudio

I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop, R&B…

— Nayvadius Cash

Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan…

— Stephen King

From the age of 14 onwards it was really punk rock, The Clash particularly. I think I learnt more from them than…

— Paul Kaye

I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand…

— David Cook

I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by…

— Clifton Collins, Jr

The wind comes creeping, it calls to me to come go exploring. It sings of the things that are to be found…

— Opal Whiteley

I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I…

— Zedd

How many records you sell really does not matter. It's whatever you give.

— Patrick Wolf

I believe in music the same way people believe in fairytales

— Anonymous

I listen to everything: The Pixies, The Beatles, The Avett Brothers.

— Madeline Brewer

I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.

— Mitski

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

— Sid Caesar

As a musician usually music is your way out.

— Damon Albarn

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.

— Kid Rock

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

— Herb Alpert

Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

— Clark Terry

A walk with music always helps when your down ..

— Anonymous

What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

— Peggy Lee

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.

— Aretha Franklin

Sometimes, for bands, everything just happens too fast.

— Alex Scally

I'm a person that works off of music. I let the music dictate the direction.

— Jay-Z

I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.

— Maluma