Song Quotes · Page 370

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

— Vikram Seth

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

— Frederic Chopin

I started singing when I started talking.

— Mariah Carey

I love singing. The joy of singing live - I don't think I will ever stop that.

— Emmylou Harris

Band shuts down at two but we're hangin' out till three.

— Trace Adkins

Whenever I'm obsessed about anything, that becomes the subject of a song.

— Redfoo

I really think that the music is the food for our souls.

— Andris Nelsons

I feel like a person who has dedicated her whole life to the music she loves.

— Montserrat Caballe

You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a…

— Kurt Elling

“Some of Mozart's Andantes emanate an ethereal desolation, a sort of dream funeral in another life.”

— Emil Cioran

As far as guitar goes, it's weird to have such a challenging activity in my life for so long - I love…

— Vernon Reid

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

— Frank Zappa

I like to make songs that are gonna be here for a long time, not for five months that they play on…

— Ginuwine

When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.

— Jack Antonoff

Covering any artist's song and getting the tick of approval from them is beyond my wildest dreams.

— G Flip

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

— John Lydon

It's different obviously with a song when you're talking about narrative, you're talking about the verse leading into the chorus or whatever…

— Shura

I come from a very musical family. My dad taught me to play guitar. I play violin and drums as well. Violin,…

— Amandla Stenberg

Albums aren't even selling anymore and there's a reason for that. Record companies are just signing single and ring tone deals and…

— Rahki

When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important…

— David Boies

“Like my outfit? I’m going for counterculture. By showing up to a punk rock concert in the least punk-aesthetic outfit possible, I’m…

— Alexandra Martin

Baby boomers helped me a great deal in my career. They launched me. They were there for me to sing my song…

— George Carlin

I love deeply, and when it comes to singing love songs and something that I have no problem doing, I put all…

— Josh Turner

The thing with the piano is, the piano is like percussion almost - well, it is. You have to... not beat on…

— Gregg Allman

I wouldn't have a No 1 record or song if I wasn't a hard-working person.

— Kesha

'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.

— Erich Bergen

I like music, a lot of different types of music.

— Raymond Kelly

There's a ton of amazing music that's not getting heard.

— A-Trak

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

— Gabriel Marcel

I like Telecasters because they are so versatile.

— Julien Baker

I grew up in the backyard of music from all angles.

— Quincy Brown

A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

— Ernest Newman

If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song

— Oscar Isaac

My musicians know all of my music, and so that makes for something different.

— Dianne Reeves

Has the industry done to music what McDonald’s has done to eating?

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

— Walton Goggins

It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.

— Sara Teasdale

I've been singing most of my life in choirs and musicals.

— Noah Reid

I love making music. It's just something that I can't stop doing.

— Fetty Wap

Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.

— Nat Hentoff