Song Quotes · Page 321

“Yes, mood swings occur: while you are driven by music.”

— paul sachudhanandam

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

— Vanessa Carlton

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time.

— Kurt Vile

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

— John Armstrong

My music is what keeps me going and so it goes with me wherever I go.

— Tanishk Bagchi

I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.

— Mike McCready

I think you have to drop an album to truly see the effects of your following.

— T.I

Songs always get better after you start playing them live.

— Jason Mraz

And I knew, nothing I could say or do Could come close to thankin' you for your love And I could try…

— Lorrie Morgan

Instead of the Beatles and the Stones, my mum and dad were listening to Michael Jackson, Barry White.

— Jonas Blue

I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.

— Neil Farber

We've always imagined ourselves as a rock band. We've always been a rock band playing the wrong instruments.

— Ted Dwane

There's a few kids out there who like singing to my songs. They're, like, five, six, seven years old.

— Alice Merton

We are just a rock and pop band, that's what we are. And I believe we recorded the records to feature the…

— Charlotte Caffey

Subway Symphony is a little idea I had to change the sound of the subway turnstiles into different pieces of music, depending…

— James Murphy

Studying James Fauntleroy, I learned it's okay to write a bad song. Just write another one the next day and hope that…

— Syd

I have amassed an enormous amount of songs about every particular condition of humankind - children's songs, marriage songs, death songs, love…

— Donovan

I change guitars as they come and go. I have one I played for almost a decade, but I've put it away.…

— Paul Reed Smith

It's not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it's what they're born to do. If you can tune…

— Jack Canfield

Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song…

— Al Yankovic

Every time one can write a self-deluded song, you are way ahead of the game, way ahead. Self-delusion is the basis of…

— Stephen Sondheim

Music should be demanding for the listener. You can gain more out of it that way. I always try to leave space…

— Einar Selvik

“ bolster , v . I am very careful whenever I know you’re on the phone with your father. I know you’ll…

— David Levithan

So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their…

— Michael Stipe

The music is the void. And you're the reason why.

— Gayle Forman

There's a jazz influence in my music in general.

— Alexandre Desplat

My dad loved Les Paul, and I wanted to be just like that.

— Steve Miller

I'm spiritual, too, but 'Gitty Up' is a great song, know what I mean?

— Pepa

For me, the value of music is the value you extract from it.

— Kevin Parker

My foundation is jazz. I do all the things jazz musicians do.

— Dianne Reeves

I just started exploring the guitar and seeing where it would take me.

— Billy Squier

I always put my identity at the forefront of my music.

— Lotic

I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.

— Roscoe Mitchell

He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

— Anonymous

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

— Anonymous

I just think Radiohead are f-in' miserable bastards.

— Noel Gallagher

Music will bring you through... It brought me through.

— Debbie Reynolds

When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.

— Vanessa Paradis

I like to fancy myself more of a musician than anything else.

— Trey Parker

The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.

— Herbert Croly