Song Quotes · Page 399

For me, if I don't know how to express it with words, I do it with music.

— Willemijn Verkaik

Love songs are the most complex to write because everyone knows about it.

— Chris de Burgh

This is our grace: To be a note In the exact chord that animates creation.

— Deena Metzger

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

— Jimi Hendrix

A love song is just a caress set to music.

— Sigmund Romberg

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

— J. K. Rowling

We're just not going anywhere. Our songs are here to stay.

— Pepa

Once you're signed to a label you compromise.

— Talib Kweli

I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.

— Eyvind Kang

Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

Nothing makes me happier than writing a song that I think is good or that I want to play. Writing songs helps…

— Nina Nesbitt

I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and…

— Washed Out

I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with…

— Pete Seeger

Every day is different and improvised. Sometimes, a song can lead to a completely different adventure. You can't control it.

— Hiromi

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the…

— Kendrick Lamar

Music is always on. Not at work. But at home, everything always has to have a soundtrack.

— Anonymous

The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear,…

— Pablo Casals

My exposure to independent music was via Nirvana and grunge so I'd never gotten into punk. I don't really like that music…

— Phil Elverum

I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love…

— Arca

“Queen always seemed to me to be manufactured championship music—designed to be played in stadiums to get fans hyped up about paying…

— Jarod Kintz

Papa Roach is actually a band that's great at playing arenas. Not every band is suited for that environment. But besides the…

— Tony Palermo

When she awoke there was a melody in her head she could not identify or recall ever hearing before. 'Perhaps I made…

— Toni Morrison

I'll sing you a new ballad, andI'll warrant it first-rate, Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate;…

— Charles Dickens

We were lucky in the days of Led Zeppelin. Each album was different. We didn't have to continue a formula or produce…

— Jimmy Page

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

— Joanna Newsom

I think 'I'm in You' was lackluster and way too light.

— Peter Frampton

Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm.

— Alan Menken

“Yet, happy are the pure of heart for they have known the music.”

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

It's so refreshing to just play straight-ahead music with lots of twists.

— Mike Portnoy

I always take notes on my phone of lyric ideas.

— Benee

My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions,

— Kurt Cobain

Everyone is my equal, and that is transferred to my music.

— Jose Feliciano

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

— George Gershwin

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.

— Levon Helm

Every person I've met has influenced my songs.

— James Blunt

I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.

— Loretta Lynn

I think soul singers are much better singers than I am.

— Lewis Capaldi

I'm just glad to be singing songs that touch people.

— Cole Swindell

Everyone thinks I'm singing falsetto, but that's my normal singing voice.

— Slim Whitman

We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.

— Albert Einstein