Song Quotes · Page 352

I love making music but there has to be variety in life.

— Karol G

I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.

— Glen Hansard

Folk music has pretty powerful medicine for changing your heart.

— Paul Stookey

My intention is to make music that you can enjoy at all times.

— Jill Scott

We want to be considered a band, like Maroon 5 or Coldplay.

— Kevin Olusola

The Beatles were a huge influence on me to write really good melodies.

— Kim Shattuck

I wrote a song called 'Green Day' because I was smoking a lot of dope.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

“And we dance all night to The Best Song ever! -One Direction”

— One Direction

There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

— Paul Gauguin

Sometimes I hate this songs because they bring the past when you we tried hard to forget those memories.

— Sushan R Sharma

“And I will sing with my soul that my song shall echo in thy heart for eternity.”

— Emilie Petersen

Rather than recallin these flowersthe fragrance of the past,I would like to hear this nightingale's voice,to know if his song is as…

— Izumi Shikibu

I've always loved French music. My parents adored it; my father played it on the piano.

— Simon Rattle

It was so cool to be listening to, I don't know, some Cocteau Twins song while I was running through the Slovakian…

— Esme Creed-Miles

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is…

— John Lydon

“Frodo heard a sweet singing running in his mind: a song that seemed to come like a pale light behind a grey…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

The song that I will sing is an old song, so old that none knows who made it. It has been handed…

— Geronimo

I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to…

— Jeff Beck

I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not…

— Vanessa Carlton

And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right…

— Gerald Scarfe

Our intention when we first started as a band, was to be a rave band. We kind of just got it wrong.…

— James Righton

I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real…

— Alessia Cara

The song 'My Way' is a very remarkable song. It is also difficult to sing because you've got to convince people that…

— Christopher Lee

I think, after 'Let Her Go,' I wanted to show people that I don't just write really sad love songs about my…

— Passenger

For me, my music has always been like an open diary.

— Wade Bowen

I'm just a wee, chubby boy that happens to sing songs.

— Lewis Capaldi

I didn't play a lot of bass as a kid, but I sang it.

— Charlie Haden

I have one favourite song, and that's 'Aayat' from 'Bajirao Mastani.'

— Arijit Singh

Ive always loved the tradition of murder ballads.

— Colter Wall

One way I judge music is whether it compels me to listen to it.

— Robert Christgau

Songwriting itself, I don't think you can really teach that.

— Borns

But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day.

— Neil Innes

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

— Billy Sheehan

Music is a world where I can live happily ever after

— Miss Leto

“Stop the noise of assumption and you'll hear the music of ascension.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I want to write music that will outlive me.

— Ray LaMontagne

I'm a fan of making music more than talking about it.

— Mark Kozelek

Music is my one friend who I know will always be there for me.

— Peter Xiong

Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.

— Leopold Stokowski

If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.

— Lou Reed