Song Quotes · Page 315

Jazz is a racist musical form invented by whites to enslave blacks.

— Lyndon LaRouche

Music touches you emotionally where words alone can't.

— Johnny Depp

My singing is inspirational. When I sing, the people around me sing louder.

— Rock Cowles

I always make music that is true to my spirit.

— Wynonna Judd

I'm on Spotify and Soundcloud all the time.

— Edith Bowman

I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear.

— Kevin Richardson

Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent.

— Tim Curry

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

— Percy Heath

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

— Amanda Palmer

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.

— Melissa Auf der Maur

We're just a metal band. Whenever people ask me what kind of music we play, I always say metal.

— Mattew Nicholls

It's better to be the largest independent band from Brazil instead of be the smallest mainstream band.

— Fernanda Takai

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I just really want to be able to walk into a karaoke bar when I'm like 50 years old, do my own…

— Cassie Ramone

On the second album, I kind of laid down a little bit because there's a different respect level, people want to know…

— Trina

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how…

— Josh Groban

I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize…

— Brian Eno

I definitely get my artistry and my vocal talent from my mother and mother's side. She sang in a jazz trio band…

— Zella Day

The most metal? Some would say Slayer, but I think they're a dreadful band. Unbelievably boring. Terrible. Apparently it's not metal to…

— Floor Jansen

“Musicians add to songs and they evolve: For as was true of human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something…

— Charles Frazier

Some songs they mean a lot to people, like you mean to me. When you listen to your favourite song it takes…

— Melchor Lim

I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it…

— Olly Murs

The next song I wrote in Paris years ago in a dream. So I didn't really write it, the universe wrote it.…

— Serj Tankian

For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look…

— Margaret Atwood

“There's no right or wrong in music, you know? Just everything in between.”

— Sarah Dessen

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job

— Seamus Heaney

My initial impulse was to be an entertainer, a song and dance man.

— Denis Lawson

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

— Charlie Parker

Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.

— Ray Charles

I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.

— Courtney Love

I can sing, but my voice is untrained. I'd like to do a musical someday.

— Sherilyn Fenn

Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs

— Paul McCartney

There's nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh.

— Ingrid Bergman

I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.

— Sam Hunt

There is the music of Heaven in all things.

— Hildegard of Bingen

I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it.

— Conor Oberst

I love all kinds of music and I love to play or try to play all kinds of music.

— Tim Commerford

Maybe life is a song but you're scared to sing along until the very ending.

— Amanda

Music has always been close to my heart.

— Jamie Lynn Spears