Song Quotes · Page 298

“The heating systems composed works in the style of John Cage.”

— David Mitchell

In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone.

— Craig Finn

“The world can change music/ Music can change the world”

— Mikayla Jade

Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

We want metal to be dangerous again. How cool would that be?

— M. Shadows

The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.

— David Lee Roth

It's very hard for me to write a generic song that could be sung by anybody.

— The-Dream

I always had a musical bone, I guess if you will.

— Morgan Wallen

I don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs.

— Tony Bennett

“Songs are just novels that get to the point quicker. Though I don't imagine that Ke$ha's book would be clean YA...”

— Inda Herwood

I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning…

— Frankie Cosmos

The private little world that I create with my music is something that most people like to listen to alone and get…

— Cat Stevens

Since I was a kid, music has been a huge part of my life. My parents had a pretty solid vinyl collection…

— Reid Scott

“The notes I can handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides.”

— Artur Schnabel

I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for…

— Eddie Van Halen

There were a few singers at home, one or two aunties. We did have a piano but I think that got put…

— Elizabeth Fraser

12 years ago all I wanted to do was sing the right songs and get emotionally wound up, but now I realize…

— Bart Millard

Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song.…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I recall this sergeant's informing me and my "room-mates" of this rather deplorable fact the army didn't have any official, excuse me,…

— Tom Lehrer

“I so love this song and I so love to dance with a woman I love. Moving your body together with someone…

— Elliot Mabeuse

Hearing your voice and your instrument kind of breathe in the room, it affects the way you perform the songs. For instance,…

— Denison Witmer

My father had a friend who actually had a hollow-body bass guitar and didn't work through an amp, but because it was…

— Robert Trujillo

I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it’s understood. I believe that. There are some…

— Marcus Mumford

I was like, "Who the hell is Bob Dylan?" I was going to learn one song to appease my mom and alphabetically…

— Ezra Furman

Ain't nothing quite as beautiful as music.

— Eyedea

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

— Herb Alpert

Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

— Celia Cruz

When I'm songwriting, I like to expand the biggest emotion.

— Ruel

I started taking vocal lessons steadily. I started taking it seriously.

— Syd

I got to sing a wonderful song called 'I Ain't Down Yet.' Well, I ain't.

— Debbie Reynolds

My dad's music was a great inspiration to me.

— Julian Lennon

I went to Kalamazoo to get my first Gibsons back in '76.

— Alex Lifeson

Music is so abstract; it is a combination of words and melody.

— Shankar Mahadevan

Lyrics of some songs are vulgar... I feel they are not good for the society.

— Kumar Sanu

Music, somehow, breaks through, to everybody.

— Sandra Bullock

“It's you, Jack Henry. It will always be you in every song I sing.”

— Georgia Cates

Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion.

— François-René de Chateaubriand

We usually overrecord. Then we boil it down to the cream of the cream.

— Black Thought

It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying

— John Frusciante

To be a drummer you also have to be a musician.

— Ian Paice