Song Quotes · Page 348

For your songs to connect with people, they've got to mean something to you.

— Charlie Fink

Live music is the cure for what ails ya.

— Henry Rollins

Let your life be your music and let your music be your life.

— Kevin Eubanks

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

— Walter Savage Landor

I think making a mix tape is romantic, sweet and from the heart.

— Nicole Scherzinger

All my songs encapsulate a particular emotion.

— Amaal Mallik

I studied piano for seven years and play for my own enjoyment.

— Janet Yellen

Music can measure how broad our horizons are. My mind wants to see to infinity.

— Stevie Wonder

Old black water, keep on rollin' Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?

— Patrick Simmons

The inside of the tune [the bridge] is the part that makes the outside sound good.

— Thelonious Monk

People often reach out and comment on how they relate to my lyrics, which makes me feel very warm inside.

— Benee

The media tends to put the artists with the hottest single on a pedestal. And as soon as that single goes away,…

— Too Short

“A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.”

— Richard Wilbur

For me, music is therapeutic, so the songs that came to me the easiest came from the most devastating moments of my…

— Bret Michaels

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

— Gustav Mahler

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

— Lukas Foss

Thanks to 'Super Dancer - Chapter 4,' that I was reminded how popular was our jodi, and the love for our songs.…

— Neelam Kothari

A lot of people at my school could play the "Stairway to Heaven" guitar solo, but they couldn't play three chords of…

— Kevin Shields

So the language of musical harmony is an absolutely extraordinary one. It's a way of navigating one's emotional frameworks, but without the…

— Jacob Collier

I was deluding myself that the song was almost not important, but I think the real thing that was happening was almost…

— John Fogerty

I'm a good collaborative writer. I can usually come in and add a couple lines to something, and add a riff or…

— James Young

For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't…

— Emily Haines

You have to keep the recording process open. If you make too many decisions before you go in, you can lose out…

— James Mercer

They're hit writers. They're gonna write me a hit whether I wanted it or not you know? I could have put out…

— Willa Ford

“But I like how free sounds all poetic-like.”

— Emily Murdoch

Music's been part of my entire life. It's in my DNA.

— Michael K. Williams

I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.

— Bob Crosby

I don't write lyrics, the lyrics write Thom Yorke

— Thom Yorke

Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music.

— Rumi

I'm gonna sing those songs that offend the censors.

— Nickelback

I really enjoy the social aspects of music as much as anything.

— Steve Martin

I was a huge Lauryn Hill fan; that was all my mom would listen to in the car.

— Ella Mai

My favourite item song is 'Mayya Mayya,' and my favourite item girl is Malaika.

— Mallika Sherawat

Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

— Debbie Harry

The violin is basically made of a wood box and four main strings.

— Sirena Huang

I can't play guitar well at all, so I had to learn that.

— Olly Alexander

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

— Warren Zevon

Songs are your best teachers. I try to learn something from every song I hear

— Pat Pattison

I've always liked music since I was younger.

— Danielle Bregoli

I am a really obsessive music listener, and I would look for clues.

— Craig Finn