Song Quotes · Page 306

Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.

— Brian Eno

I let my music take me where my heart wants to go.

— Cat Stevens

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

— David Allan Coe

You can apply the same heart, the same sense of euphoria to any genre.

— Stuart Price

Happy music doesn't tend to move me much

— Duncan Sheik

For me, I really like listening to music really loud.

— Bonobo

What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

— Ashley Monroe

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

— Lev Grossman

Growing up, my grandma was at home with us and there was a strong Afrobeat culture, she'd play all the riddims, and…

— Raye

I remember sitting at home in West Texas listening to my 'Songs for a New World' CD over and over.

— Michael Arden

I can't immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by…

— TobyMac

Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that.

— Ozzy Osbourne

I'm a reader, so when I go to bookstores I need (stuff) that's going to help me. There a big emptiness there…

— Nas

When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me 'simian.' I had to look that up at the time.

— Ian Brown

Social media can sometimes influence the charts, but I think that only great music makes it to the top. The good songs…

— Dua Lipa

Band sleeping with sirens song roger rabbit… Nobody's gonna feel your pain When all is done And it's time for you to…

— Sleeping With Sirens

I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded…

— Isaac Asimov

I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people.…

— Michael Stipe

I think that I make chords when I paint, so I think you would be listening to the cello. It's deep, and…

— Sean Scully

Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your…

— Chris Cornell

This is truly a blessing. Breyon Prescott, Peter Edge and Tom Corson believe in me and have introduced me to a home…

— Brandy Norwood

When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for…

— Robert Fripp

There comes a point where you just got to step back. That's how I ended up out here . I stepped back.…

— Billy Ray Cyrus

In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that…

— John Frusciante

That annoying moment when the song you hate is stuck in your head.

— Anonymous

“Your boyfriend’s heartstrings make such a lovely melody when they snap.”

— Leah Clifford

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

— Herbie Hancock

Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.

— Pat Metheny

Music can't save the world, but can make one a little calmer.

— Joe Zawinul

Sometimes the songs you think will be best don't turn out to be best.

— Billy Boyd

War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.

— Wendell Phillips

There's nothing - nothing - like the magic of playing music.

— Butch Trucks

I feel like I'll be writing World War 2 music the rest of my life.

— Michael Giacchino

Others may sing the song. Others may right the wrong.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

— Martin Fleischmann

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

— Randy Newman

Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.

— Thom Yorke

I should have been singing since I was 10 years old.

— Divine

I can answer anything about any American pop culture song ever.

— Mark McGrath