Song Quotes · Page 427

I want to have not only the good side of life but the bad side of life. And the both combined is…

— Stromae

I believe the right lyric and melody can soar beyond the clouds to the ears of the heavens.

— Jimmie Allen

Lars [Ulrich] of Metallica is one of the worst drummers I've ever heard, but they hide it because they spend millions recording.

— Slim Moon

The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.

— Kevin Spacey

If you've got a good melody and a good story married together, that's a good sign for hit-song material.

— Glen Campbell

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

— Solange Knowles

I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it.

— Sarah McLachlan

I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.

— Ruben Studdard

If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in…

— Bettina Skrzypczak

Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art…

— Gary Giddins

I remember the period in the 1980s where the Beatles were terminally uncool, and it seemed to me then like they were…

— Alasdair MacLean

Yeah, letting go - even just musically, aside from emotionally - I find that quite challenging. Knowing the right time for letting…

— Kimbra

I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to…

— Robyn Hitchcock

Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, How beautiful it is? All its branches are outlined, and in…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Because life is a symphony it must have its C Minor. Days there be when we hear only a discord of sharps…

— W. Waldemar W. Argow

There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.

— Scott McClanahan

'Fix' was a song that definitely put me on the map and changed everything for in me my career. I'm really thankful…

— Chris Lane

Though the inspiration for my songs almost always comes from things that are happening around me, I am definitely not always the…

— Thalia Zedek

“Together me and Amy are Jaramy. Pearl Jam wrote a song about us speaking in class.”

— Jarod Kintz

I try to listen to stuff that makes me happy for other reasons, rather than being musically inspiring.

— Anna Meredith

I try to take my own advice in terms of the type of music I create for my fans - upliftment, positivity,…

— Koffee

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

— Holly Near

Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

— Virgil Thomson

When you've got insane drums and a lot of guitar, it's really hard to mix the vocals, to mix it all well.

— Marnie Stern

The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will.

— Irene Thomas

Still, the music was always there, and the lyrical capability was always threatening to show its head.

— George Michael

I sit at the piano for a couple of hours and tinker away until I get something. I am a nocturnal spirit,…

— Thomston

Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.

— Donald Miller

Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put…

— Talib Kweli

There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.

— Jimi Hendrix

“I think that if Mozart were alive today and decided to become a novelist, he would write humorous fantasy.”

— Frank P. Ryan

One of the features of being a piano player is playing as an accompanist for other people.

— Leon Russell

I always write music if I'm feeling a bit rubbish and I don't know how to get over or through something.

— Tom Walker

Axl [Rose] is not the type of person to make something up. So I was sort of shocked that he went that…

— Slash

Playing the piano is incredibly personal... But when it's your own piece, it's doubly so.

— Stephen Hough

“They solved the problem of coexistence through the use of individual stereo headphones.”

— Stephen Billias

I was writing songs because I needed them, songs about trusting God in difficult circumstances.

— Matt Hammitt

I have an urban background, but I need melody, I need a song, so I try to mix and match and keep…

— Negash Ali

I certainly think that my music is a response to my experience as a person who doesn't identify as straight, as a…

— Rostam Batmanglij