Song Quotes · Page 434

My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people.

— DJ Shadow

If I hear a song that I love - how is the groove and how is the beat and what is the…

— Gustav Ejstes

There's so many songs about heartbreak that exist this in the world, because music is somehow the perfect medium to express something…

— Bjork

It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal…

— Thomston

I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some…

— Fred Hammond

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

— Pat Metheny

I reckon people's attitude to us is a challenge that motivates you to show them what this band can do.

— Luke Hemmings

I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.

— Neil Sedaka

I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for…

— Ledisi

For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with…

— Richard Morris

I always travel with my guitar. I take it myself - with me in my hand. I don't like to send it…

— Juanes

“Later that evening, he sat in the bar, pint in one hand, pipe in the other, with good food beneath his belt…

— Barbara Anderson

I always knew I would sing. I just didn't know if I would be successful or not. But I sang at school,…

— Andrea Bocelli

All we wanted to do was to make live records all available. For us, the idea is to make it all available…

— Ian MacKaye

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes, so that…

— Ric Ocasek

With Kevin [Drew], as I said, in his own way just told me "You gotta find that person that talks to you…

— Andy Kim

Singing was something I always did. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't singing, even as a little child.

— Alessia Cara

Tom Osborne, Lou Holtz, Bobby Bowden were in our living room. My mom didn't know who they were!

— Hines Ward

I think the job of the first single is kind of like being a diplomat for a country.

— St. Lucia

“But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism. ”

— Arthur Phillips

Listening to Evanescence makes me want to break up with a girl in real time as a giant antique hourglass falls to…

— Dane Cook

We're a very stubborn and stupid band. And we don't make decisions necessarily based on what's best for everybody.

— John Dolmayan

“About how their song had never sounded so sweet. And of the man who held her. Of how it felt as if…

— Juliana Stone

I don't want to give up pop music. It's how I earn my living. I've got a family to take care of.

— Philip Bailey

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a…

— Clay Aiken

I've been singing since I was like 7 years old in the choir at church, so I do have a little bit…

— Chi Chi DeVayne

That's kind of something we - my team and I - text each other a lot. Anytime something great happens, we're like,…

— Walker Hayes

Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.

— Andrew S. Gilbert

“I sit just looking back at our lives. I wish I could go back in the time. To make up for all…

— dreamer

Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

— John Lee Hooker

Sweet Jane' is my favorite song by Lou Reed the writer, at least the Velvet Underground Lou Reed.

— Scarface

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the…

— Elton John

I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin

— Bill Watterson

“I give you my spirit, my flesh and my memories. Every drop of my blood sings our song. A song of happiness.…

— Apichatpong Weerasethakul

“The mind has an ear of its own and sometimes memory is the fiercest fucking DJ alive.”

— Rachel Cohn

Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes.

— Luka Sulic

I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might…

— Gil Scott-Heron

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

— Leila Josefowicz

“Any conversation is a unique jazz performance. Some are more pleasing to the ears, but that is not necessarily a measurement of…

— Frank Herbert