Song Quotes · Page 361

I made music a priority every single day.

— Bishop Briggs

The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs.

— Bernadette Devlin

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

— Michelle Shocked

A song called Never. Which we never play. But it's a great song.

— John Wozniak

I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.

— Ben Gibbard

Our band will never change , we will always be 5 singing idiots .

— Niall Horan

My actual taste in music is pretty bad, I think.

— Keiko Agena

Not a lot of bands get to go out on their own terms.

— Ronan Keating

I love that [ late-50s Verve recordings] - to me, that's the epitome of vocal jazz. It's my favorite style and era…

— Jose James

I just got a new iPod. It's got 80 gigabytes. Because I like to jog for three weeks at a time and…

— Arj Barker

The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.

— Julian Casablancas

There's a lot of intelligence in the hands.When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. The same thing's…

— Tom Waits

I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also…

— A. R. Rahman

I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when I'm by…

— Cat Power

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

— Taylor Swift

Tal akrav @talakrav ÷ 1m Some songs can make you cry When you hear them. But Actually it isn't the songs, It's…

— Tal

Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to…

— Pierre Boulez

The association between Christmas and punk rock started when I was 13, when my friends and I went to see a band…

— Alisyn Camerota

“But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying, If I am dead, as dead I well may be, You'll come…

— Frederic Weatherly

When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the…

— Jill Sobule

“[He] went on to tell her that certain work songs made the work a little easier, but that there were others, depending…

— Edward P. Jones

I started to play the guitar for a couple of years, which was fun. I still bring it out once in a…

— Dirk Nowitzki

I try to keep the idea that there's an audience in as little space in my mind as possible, but you can't…

— Conor Oberst

I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all…

— Jane Wiedlin

“I was better than a punk. I was a protaganist.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

I was called a naughty girl only because I was singing naughty songs.

— Eartha Kitt

A good country song takes a page out of someone's life, and puts it into music.

— Conway Twitty

“Music is my escape from all the problems in life.”

— Kailin Cui

Catchy lyrics are being given more importance.

— Armaan Malik

Music is what I am, everything else is what I do.

— Kenny Rogers

Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music.

— Pauline Oliveros

We're gonna dance on the funk and make love on this song.

— Rick James

The best songs I've written tend to 'write themselves' in some ways.

— Jelly Roll

When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer.

— Yungblud

Even if nobody was listening to it, I'd still be making music.

— Jacob Collier

I'm not trying to make music that everyone will like.

— Sophie Thatcher

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

— Pete Seeger

More than meeting people and going out with girls, I'm focused on my music.

— Craig David

I feel there is no harm in recreating songs.

— Randhir Kapoor

Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

— Josh Billings