Song Quotes · Page 412

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can…

— Oliver Sacks

Music is my escape; from all the lies, all the drama, all the confusion, all the hurt. Music is my escape from…

— Rihanna A Mohammed

Some songs can make you cry When you hear them. But Actually it isnt the songs, Its the people behind the memories.

— Anonymous

Up above my head...there's music in the air. Oh, I really do believe there must be heaven somewhere.

— Ruthie Foster

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

— Barry White

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me. It seems like a lot of people don't like the music…

— Conor Oberst

I wanted it to be like Amy Grant, but it didn't pan out that way. My label actually went bankrupt, and I…

— Katy Perry

“You were moon's eye to me pull and grained and mantling' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew”

— Charlotte Mew

What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my…

— Liz Phair

Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years…

— Bootsy Collins

We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and…

— Ron Pope

I liked the Beatles but I wasn't mad on the Stones. I always thought they were a slight rip-off of Chuck Berry…

— Cliff Richard

Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained…

— Rick Riordan

The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak,…

— G. M. Trevelyan

“In the years since, I learned that when I am missing Berk or Asta, I can play my tears through my instruments.…

— Krista McGee

People thought I disappeared, but I never went away. Music has always been a priority.

— Lisa Stansfield

I decided to take up 'Shaapit' because Vikram agreed to make me sing all the songs.

— Aditya Narayan

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want…

— Michael Giles

Once a song is done, for me, personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mixdown.

— Dr. Dre

“songwriters learn just one concept beyond the Three-Chord Trick from this book it should surely be the ii-V–I progression.”

— Dominic Pedler

I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.

— Van Morrison

Sometimes I'll try something on piano and move to guitar, but usually that comes after scratching down some ideas for lyrics.

— Melody Gardot

Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

— Stephen Sondheim

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of…

— Daryl Hall

“Nothing is better than music... it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for. ”

— Nadia Boulanger

Music is where I'm still. It's where I'm focused. It's such a joy. I'd like to make it a big part of…

— Sue Perkins

Christmas in the Buckley household is hilarious - at the family dinner, we all have to do a song, no matter if…

— Jessie Buckley

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

— Leonard Bernstein

The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the piano. I have been…

— Laura Marano

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out…

— Randy Travis

Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.

— Noel Gallagher

With songwriters like me who are prolific, you just write the song and then put it on tape.

— Donovan

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

— Michael Giles

That's the challenge as a songwriter is that there's only so many things people want to hear about, and relationships is just…

— Matthew Ramsey

'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.

— Miguel

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be…

— Chris Daughtry

I want to make honest music and tell honest stories that hopefully reflect the thoughts and feelings other people have.

— Steve Grand

I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a…

— Jon Gordon

I'm not afraid to go out on a limb, style-wise or with lyrics. I don't ever want to be afraid to cut…

— Lee Ann Womack