Song Quotes · Page 319

I have to make music. If I don't do it, I go crazy.

— Tom DeLonge

Music is what brings the world together...

— Kristi Goetting

Listening to music just to close out the world

— Me ;0

Our career wasn't built on putting out hot singles.

— Redman

That's what I wanted to do was play music.

— Steve Miller

If music sounds dated, it means it wasn't very good in the first place.

— Tony Bennett

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

— Randy Newman

The Too Short albums are not the autobiography of Todd Shaw.

— Too Short

It is a very serious consideration for a lyricist to step in there and suggest the meaning to a song. The music…

— Al Jarreau

“There is a broken song that plays over in my head each time I hear someone say his name.”

— Elizabeth Heller

Music was my salvation, the thing I loved most and did best. Whatever was fun, I'd go do that.

— Roy Clark

“Music is one way of saying things that you cannot really say to a person face to face, a sign of suppressed…

— The Eldest

Rhythm, that's an essential part of cooking. The sound of a lovely song and the smell of some dish in the oven…

— Neneh Cherry

I hope the next benefit concert will aid people traumatized from watching wrinkly British rock stars in HD.

— Anonymous

My dad is a children's singer. His name is Red Grammer. He's literally one of the happiest people on the planet.

— Andy Grammer

I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different…

— John Frusciante

I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't…

— John Prine

The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the…

— Chris Thile

I'm a real Otis Redding fan, and I just think he sounds so good. He sounds like he's always at the end…

— Lizz Wright

The spirituality of the music is something that I always search for in what I do, because I think that music has…

— Ludovico Einaudi

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically,…

— Roscoe Mitchell

I suppose musicians have the kind of arrogant attitude that they can actually offer the world something, because through their passive power,…

— Lisa Gerrard

I think a lot of people, when they write a song, they put it on a pedestal - and it shouldn't be.…

— CMAT

I wrote 'Truth Is' with Julia Michaels during our first time working together. The song is about emotions we often think of…

— Sabrina Claudio

Music is music, and we all have a spot and a place to enjoy it.

— Hardwell

In the worst of times, music is a promise that times are meant to be better.

— Robert Christgau

I always had an appreciation for diverse musical styles.

— Mick Foley

You can kill that man but not his song, When it's sung the whole world round...

— Holly Near

I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.

— Mika

When you hear a romantic song, the feeling is incomparable.

— Javed Ali

It wasn't until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out.

— Kenny G

If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .

— Nick Drake

(For songwriters) Development of your facility as a musician is also important.

— Ryan Cayabyab

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

— Bill Haley

Pink Friday Eminem 8 Mile It must hurt to sell your album on Paypal

— Nicki Minaj

I want to release music that I like and feel comfortable with.

— Tulisa

“The masterpiece is symphony played upon our finest feelings.”

— Kakuzō Okakura

I don't want to write the same song over and over again.

— Lauren Mayberry

“He who is about to sing the fourth song is either a man or a stone or a tree.”

— Lautréamont

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

— Janet Jackson