Song Quotes · Page 295

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

— Lucinda Williams

It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.

— Alex Kapranos

Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities,

— Marcel Marceau

I want to be known for my music, and that takes time.

— Mabel

“Without nukes there would have been no Beatles,”

— Yuval Noah Harari

I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’

— Dhani Harrison

the Mind of Man-- My haunt, and the main region of my song.

— William Wordsworth

If you're going to call yourself a musician, you have to go out and make music.

— Paolo Nutini

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

— Billie Eilish

The band will always be our number one, and I don't see it ever stopping. We love playing, so why would we…

— Chad Gilbert

'My Swan Song' - that song is so depressing but uplifting at the same time, you know what I mean?

— Joey Jordison

The good thing about music is that it can be the voice of what we feel inside especially when we are mute…

— Jessica

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though.…

— David Byrne

We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's…

— David Pajo

Honestly I don't like to write songs that often, only when I feel like I need to and when I've got something…

— Matt Thiessen

My sister was the singer, and I always had the mentality there could only be one in the family.

— Julia Michaels

“No one can get reall drunk on a novle or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Beethoven's night, Bartok's…

— Kundera Milan

I think when you write songs, you write about people... People are the source of my material. And London is a wonderful…

— Ray Davies

In one of my songs, in the song on the "Why?" remix that I did with Jadakiss in 2004, I said, "Why…

— Will Ferrell

There are two types of conductors. One is the good conductor who can do passionate music but also listen to the singers…

— Anna Netrebko

With slide guitar, you're just hanging this piece of glass on your hand. It's a really beautiful instrument in that it's so…

— Bonnie Raitt

“The musicians-how shall one begin to describe them? All this time they have been there, playing in a mad frenzy-all of this…

— Upton Sinclair

“There was the same need for obscurity, the same suspicion that if a piece of music had reached a large number of…

— Nick Hornby

There was a time I was around those fan boats that go across swamps, and the fans had a really rich, multi-textural…

— Bonobo

Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing thats lasting.

— George Benson

Every love song makes me cry because every love song reminds me of you.

— Anonymous

Those who wish to sing will always find a song.

— Anonymous

“Please do not have a band, as I do not care for music.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I feel freedom in singing and performing.

— Dana Reeve

“Music has charms to soothe the savage beast.”

— William Congreve

I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.

— Ted Rall

“I am sailing on a ship bound for life. a line in a song”

— Phil Wickham

“At the heart of who you are is a love song that has always been resonating.”

— Joan Cerio

I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

— Kathy Acker

I pawned my grandpa's old guitar in collage.

— Jake Owen

You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.

— Rita Ora

I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.

— Trevor Dunn

There's certain little sounds that I just like to hear.

— Lil Baby

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them...

— Charlie Haden

Life is like music, so it can be played in different styles.

— Ritu Ghatourey