Song Quotes · Page 327

It all started with music for me. Everything still does.

— Roisin Murphy

The thing about me is that I'm a total music freak.

— Brian Reitzell

“Sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.”

— Paul Simon

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.

— Evelyn Glennie

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

— Gustav Mahler

We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.

— Jay DeMarcus

The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.

— Brian Eno

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

— Connie Britton

To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music.

— Donatella Versace

If my life were a song, what would it be? 'A Never Ending Road of Musical Good Times'.

— Paul McDonald

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

— Kenny G

I used to write random little stupid things when I was five, but then the first song I really wrote was one…

— Billie Eilish

I am a music freak. My tastes run the gamut from Willie Nelson to Metallica to Miles Davis.

— W. Earl Brown

I learned to play instruments and I've been in bands since I was 13, but I wanted to be an artist and…

— The-Dream

It [ "Not For Long"] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times.

— PJ Harvey

Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign…

— Mark Nepo

I feel like a lot of times, when making a one-song collab with someone, it's easy for one person to not be…

— Aesop Rock

“I am also practicing cello to wean myself from power and accomplishment, to place myself back in the posture of a learner,…

— Andy Crouch

The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I…

— William Bell

It's a mantle we don't deserve. That's not what we're about. We do big pop songs with bombast -- and it's the…

— Def Leppard

My daughter is 15. None of her friends know who the hell Chris Rea is, but they know that song - as…

— Chris Rea

The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the…

— Jennifer Egan

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs…

— Jane Austen

the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had…

— Linda Ronstadt

I say what I want to say with the music.

— Alex G

If an emotional song can be fit into a funny video, what is so bad about it?

— Kumar Sanu

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.

— Euripides

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

— Shannon Hoon

And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.

— Robert Frost

I won't squander my credibility, whatever that is, just for one silly song.

— Rory Gallagher

My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.

— Labrinth

Drummers are like sharks. They have to move all the time or they die.

— Pat Smear

“There 's music in all things, if men had ears:”

— George Gordon Byron

My singing is a mix between Jericho/ Fergie/ Jesus

— Dolph Ziggler

It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.

— Steven Adler

I thought we were gonna get "Smooth Operator." That song was big in the '90s.

— Rush Limbaugh

I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.

— Benmont Tench

Music teaches us how to work together, how to harmonize.

— Daryl Davis

When the music video doesn't have anything to do with the song or lyrics

— Anonymous