Song Quotes · Page 368

I grew up in a musical atmosphere at home.

— Armaan Malik

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

— Sean O'Casey

The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem.

— Aaron Kilbourn

“Yes, if he is to have true music in him.”

— Plato

I started making music professionally when I was 14.

— Sky Ferreira

I have always been into music ever since I was a kid.

— Kelly Blatz

The whole thing about playlists is what song comes next.

— Jimmy Iovine

I like punks who also like Saxon. I guess I am one.

— Gylve Nagell

It's funny, now there are so many bands that I can never remember any of their names. Maybe it's because I'm old.

— Judd Apatow

Not to discount my music, but I'm always suspicious of the music that I make on some level, as to how valid…

— Ryan Adams

Some people take that really seriously. There's an art to it and I've watched people drive themselves crazy sequencing an 11, 12 song record.

— Josh Freese

That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record,…

— Adam Yauch

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

— Taylor Swift

A band is a real band if they can play not just their songs, but they can just play.

— Shavo Odadjian

If I spend time at the front of the process worrying about connecting themes, then I won't write the best songs.

— Jason Isbell

It's been thrown up to me most of my life: Why don't I just concentrate on conducting or composing or my own…

— Andre Previn

“Since there are always talented players in these emerging categories, no matter how grating they may be to the ear of the…

— Linda Ronstadt

When writing songs, especially if they're kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is…

— El-P

People don't buy music anymore; they're stealing it. But you can't steal a live show. There's no way to reproduce a real…

— John 5

“If he ever sang, she thought, the song would be so unbearably gorgeous, it would soar over spires of stone and steel,…

— Thea Harrison

I've been relying very heavily on my instincts as of late, and my songwriting has come to depend on my ability to…

— Christine Anderson

Witches try to 'connect' with the world around them. Witchcraft, they say, is about the tactile, intuitive understanding of the turn of…

— Tanya Luhrmann

Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to…

— Zoltan Kodaly

For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.

— Nelly Mazloum

I think my favorite thing is songwriting.

— Carlos Ponce

Whatever I've got going on, I play music to accompany me.

— Brooke Burke

"Law suites of up to $150,000 per song against people who download music...

— Danny Worsnop

Nothing is worse than going home and having not played a gig.

— Nicki Minaj

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

— Elvis Presley

I wouldn't have a No. 1 record or song if I wasn't a hardworking person.

— Kesha

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

— Tom Verlaine

I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.

— Jimi Hendrix

Be honest with who you are and what your music is about.

— B-Real

We're not idols onstage. We're not the Rolling Stones.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song.

— Hilda Doolittle

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

— Charles Darwin

Songs are easy to remember because they have rhythm and music.

— Asha Bhosle

The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters

— Ahmet Ertegun

It's hard enough to write a song, let alone one that sticks around.

— Jani Lane