Song Quotes · Page 328

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

— Boethius

All music is good music, if it touches your soul.

— DJ Premier

Listen to her heart, it could be your favorite song.

— The Forgotten

Music can change the world because it can change people.

— Bono

I love singing - singing was basically kind of my passion before ventriloquism.

— Darci Lynne Farmer

With my band, I feel comfortable anywhere in the world.

— Jaimoe

When people wanna come buy beats or wanna record a song, I'm trappin'.

— Zaytoven

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

— John Cage

We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the…

— Freddie Mercury

I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or…

— David Sanborn

The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn't mean that we're rebellious.

— Davy Jones

I was very friendly with Jimi Hendrix because my boyfriend at the time, Tommy Weber, was making a film about him, so…

— Charlotte Rampling

I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.

— Martin Gore

I literally have a song about how bored I was and it's actually a really cool song that's interesting because I created…

— Bea Miller

It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in…

— Bebe Neuwirth

Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the collector, I guess.

— Anonymous

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea…

— Bill Bryson

I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his…

— Martin Gore

We've learned the lesson that the music industry didn't learn: give people what they want, when they want it, in the form…

— Kevin Spacey

The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their…

— Gunther Schuller

We sent a guy called Terry Slater a couple of demos, using the last of our money. And then things turned. He…

— Morten Harket

“They talked about record labels, about how the majority of labels didn't care anything about the music, they just wanted a pretty…

— Anne Fraiser

Pot is great for the abstract, for when you don't have to be regimented and for when you don't need parameters. When…

— Steve "Lips" Kudlow

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but…

— Adam Rich

I wish everyone could hear the soundtrack for my life that I hear in my head.

— Nicole Richie

A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.

— Lester Bowie

I've always listened to music, since I was really, really young.

— Lily Allen

Music, or the type of music that I'm writing, is very personal.

— SZA

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

— Andy Grammer

Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

— Peter Steele

The piano is an orchestra with 88… things, you know

— Vladimir Horowitz

I hate when my favorite song comes on the radio as I get out of the car.

— Cuts And Scars

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

— David Pajo

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

— Dexter Gordon

LOVE ALL YUR SONG SOME OF EM GOSE WITH ME

— Kid Cudi

I have a crazy background in music, both as a performer and writer.

— Jesse Itzler

Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.

— Neil Young

Im gonna live the night like its the best night of my life.

— Stefano

A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.

— Denis Norden

Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead.

— Matt Berninger