Song Quotes · Page 304

If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.

— Pablo Casals

I make music not to make money but because it's in me.

— Jermaine Dupri

“This song would have no end; it couldn't possibly. This song was forever.”

— Steve Brezenoff

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

— Billie Holiday

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

— Morton Feldman

My voice is not so much 'bel canto' as 'can belto'.

— Harry Secombe

Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.

— Andre Rieu

I've read that I'm ruining music. It makes me kind of laugh.

— Dr. Luke

I have been exposed to most musical genres and have learned how to tackle them effectively.

— Wendy Starland

Just no gentrified drum and bass music anymore, please! It's not good for your health.

— Goldie

I write my lyrics the day I sing the song, so even when I have the basic things, I'm thinking what can…

— Kirk Windstein

I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals…

— Ben Folds

A singer doesn't sing at home: he or she wants his songs to reach out the audience. Audience always gives you your…

— Himesh Reshammiya

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

— John Philip Sousa

Thomas Dolby is part mad scientist, part nature boy, and entirely moved by the power of music.

— Shawn Amos

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

— Philip Schaff

I've been singing since I was 12. And I think that all the information is finally starting to chill out. And I…

— Justin Vernon

Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can…

— Lisa Gerrard

The melody of a religious feeling is the music of life itself. To those who do not hear it I could not…

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

Once I discovered music and that you don't need to just use words but can add a growl to the melody, that…

— Banks

You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic,…

— Phil Collins

Kane is a band I formed with my best friend Steve Carlson. We just got together and started playing guitar. He was…

— Christian Kane

“And so all great music, great prose, everything beautiful must depend upon the sure, free measure with which it is gardened and…

— Robert Henri

I tend to employ braided narrative threads in the lyric, so often echoes (of phrases or images) will occur and will hit…

— Anna Journey

Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.

— Ferruccio Busoni

I'm putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.

— Kendrick Lamar

I may be preaching to the choir, but the choir needs a good song.

— Michael Moore

Music is admitted under the skin without permission.

— Jon Foreman

That one song on your iPod that plays real loud and scares the shit out of you.

— Anonymous

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on...

— Irving Berlin

As regards rap music, I believe that the c is silent.

— Dr Tony Giles

I love to offer a playlist to the world, almost like being a deejay.

— Jean-Marc Vallee

Even Karan Johar appreciated me for my songs.

— Devi Sri Prasad

“To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd”

— Aristotle

I think music is a spiritual way to communicate transcendental things.

— Christopher Owens

We all know this: Music is such a fundamental part of life.

— Bozoma Saint John

I have to write pretty songs; that's what gets them on the charts.

— Nicky Jam

I just got an ear for the kind of things I like.

— Lil Baby

In the end, the best music will always rise to the top.

— John Carter Cash

Gunna was the second person I ever made a song with.

— Lil Baby