Song Quotes · Page 386

This here song might offend some, if it does it's because your dumb.

— Frank Zappa

Knowing that people make my songs their own is what keeps me going.

— Alanis Morissette

I try to project not only a song but a personality.

— Peggy Lee

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

The reason I make music is to make people feel something, anything.

— Blackbear

If she doesn't have a favorite song, leave that bitch!

— Simon Quperlier

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

— Martin Luther

“The powerful can make the truth dance to their song.”

— J.Y. Yang

Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the…

— Martin Fry

Music expresses the emotions that are hardest to show, the words are the words you wish you could say, music is the…

— Sarah Moores

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Even I would be unhappy if the final track did not sound good to me, which is why I stay in the…

— Armaan Malik

People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening, People writing songs that voices never share, and no one dare disturb the Sound…

— Anonymous

I'm not an amazingly trained soul singer, so with me it's about feeling and energy and spontaneity - that's a really big…

— Neneh Cherry

The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.

— Kelli O'Hara

For me, my music is part of me, and which is why it seems second nature, and my compositions are instinctive.

— Ilaiyaraaja

From the start, I held the pick in an unusual way. I used to bend my thumb way back in order to…

— Paul Gilbert

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I…

— Nils Frahm

My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out…

— Gordon Lightfoot

I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the…

— Dweezil Zappa

Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the…

— Peter Gabriel

“ I didn't know I was lost Until you found me I never knew what love was Until you touched my hand…

— Christine Zolendz

Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey…

— Mike Gordon

Yeah, I've always considered myself a musical person.

— Charlie Day

The Stones were a big influence on me and the Beatles, obviously.

— Brad Paisley

Songwriting is a muscle. The more you do it, the better you get at it.

— Jason Derulo

I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.

— Dolph Lundgren

We can't seem to put out an album without any drama.

— Wayne Static

You know, I write songs, I repair guitars.

— J. J. Cale

The louder the music, the better I feel.

— Rajat DOGRA

If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

— John Lennon

I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.

— Kate Upton

I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.

— Valerie June

Music is always gonna change; it's just a matter of keeping up with the times.

— Cam'ron

I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.

— Matthew Shipp

I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.

— Eddie Floyd

“The thing is, my father has about as much rhythm as a drunken octopus […]”

— Mark Peter Hughes

I always liked the skinny punk girls; I even loved them before punk.

— Robert Englund

Economic background should not be a reason for not learning music!

— Shankar Mahadevan