Song Quotes · Page 43

Optimism is my best defense.

— Rod Stewart

“Our song escapes On neon silver discs”

— Arcade Fire

I sing the music I like.

— Sonu Kakkar

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

You cant beat The Beatles, you join em.

— Peggy Lee

I wrote a lot of really sad songs.

— Ruel

There's been a progression in my sound.

— Carly Rae Jepsen

I make the kind of music I like.

— Duncan Sheik

Jazz is not gonna be a dinosaur and stay around in one form.

— McCoy Tyner

All genres of music have their own beauty.

— Vidyasagar

I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.

— Anonymous

Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit.

— Mother Teresa

I always liked a good love song and I dig being in love.

— Sammy Hagar

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

— Cornel West

My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.

— Louis Armstrong

I think the whole '2112' album took somewhere around a week to do.

— Alex Lifeson

I can sing in my head and rearrange the tune of a song, note per note. I am a nerd.

— Catriona Gray

“She holds up her cup of wine and starts singing a bunch of words not in English. It sounds like a foreign…

— Katherine Stevens

I look at 'Love Child' and it's as if it was written by someone else - someone who knew what they were…

— Allegra Huston

As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects.

— Kali Uchis

Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside.

— Andris Nelsons

I just want people to listen to the music and get something from it, whatever it may be. Whether it's a catchy…

— Kodie Shane

Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I…

— Evelyn Glennie

The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.

— Bill Hader

You have to pretend that you're not bothered by your record leaked early. So that's the tack that I'm taking. It's like…

— Will Sheff

I recognise that my music is probably for your 1 A.M. alone time - and I'm ok with that because, the truth…

— JP Saxe

After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found…

— Jimmy Chamberlin

I've been training myself and listening to other artists and seeing where their emotion comes from, singing a heartbreak song when they're…

— Jessica Sanchez

Right away, I knew I didn't want to have that look of other guys with long hair and bell-bottom pants, because everybody…

— Loudon Wainwright III

Being in the space that I am as a writer, and just as a black dude in America, there's this push to…

— Chance The Rapper

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have…

— Carla Bley

Richie Faulkner is very respectful to the songs that he plays from when [founding member] K.K. [Downing] was in the band. He…

— Rob Halford

We sold millions of albums.

— Richard Carpenter

The guitar is my whole life.

— John 5

For me, music is about experimentation.

— Rosalia

Music is all about creativity.

— Shankar Mahadevan

I am a singer, not a full-on rapper.

— Cher Lloyd

The people in my songs are all me.

— Bob Dylan

Music defines who I am.

— Wizy Mari

Music is just air moving around.

— Moby