Song Quotes · Page 381

As long as I'm still growing as a musician, it keeps me inspired.

— Bryce Dessner

We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.

— Mike Lowry

There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust.

— Scott Weiland

It's a really personal thing for me to write a song.

— Michael Franti

You know what the trouble about real life is? Theres no danger music.

— Jim Carrey

Kiss is a super - they are total businessmen. They pride themselves on it.

— Paul Rudd

With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.

— Jamila Woods

To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.

— Rufus Wainwright

I'm glad I got to introduce myself to America by doing a Britney [Spears] song, haha!

— Melanie Martinez

At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.

— Ellis Marsalis, Jr

Striving to make music that empowers people as opposed to making them feel like they're being beaten down every single day is…

— Laura Jane Grace

Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting…

— Johnny Thunders

I love, but I hate the rain. Rain reminds me of you. You, a memory that I must remember to forget. Forget,…

— Chubbytarsier

Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen…

— Randall Jarrell

That awkward moment when you only know one part to as song so you just keep singing the same line whole day.

— Anonymous

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.

— Elaine Paige

I've got a few reasons why I've got to maintain stability. I've got into wanting people to hear my music. I've got…

— Sly Stone

I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist... Beethoven could have been forgiven if…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

So I'm writing more highly personalized and intellectual music, and I think that's good. It might take longer to find me, but…

— Paula Cole

The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish…

— Danny Elfman

Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die…

— Sherman Alexie

I've always seen this overlap between medieval warfare and heavy metal. You see heavy metal singers and they'll have like a brace…

— Tim Schafer

I'm in total control. I write the songs, decide what to sing and how to sing. I even control the recording process.…

— Norah Jones

Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have…

— John Barrow

Music is something that always calms you down.

— Tulsi Kumar

Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

— Miley Cyrus

Music has always taken me to another plane of existence.

— Judith Durham

Our love is like a song but you won't sing along.

— Demi Lovato

There's nothing quite as raw and honest as one person and one instrument.

— Nancy Wilson

When you want to form a band, there's always an overwhelming lack of drummers.

— Yusaku Maezawa

Music is my life. It's inseparable from anything else that I do.

— Bill Walton

I just like music, bro. I listen to everyone.

— YG

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

— Russell Simmons

I like spoken-word as much as the singing word.

— Loren Mazzacane Connors

To follow in Beethoven's footsteps transcends one's strength.

— Johannes Brahms

They are all different and I find it hard to tell what flute suits me best.

— James Galway

What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?

— Confucius

As far as the music goes, I like melody.

— Dickey Betts

I got to meet Rachel Platten, who sings 'Fight Song,' I love that song.

— Mirai Nagasu

I play the same song, over and over cause it reminds me of you.

— Ritu Ghatourey