Song Quotes · Page 443

Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to…

— Victoria Legrand

Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We…

— Lukas Foss

I don't sing a song unless I feel it. The song don't tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have…

— Ray Charles

“It's a new day, it's a new season, it's time to sing a new song and it's time to put on the…

— Euginia Herlihy

Every musician out there wants to be judged on the merit of their songwriting, the merit of their performing abilities.

— Laura Jane Grace

Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.

— Joseph Goebbels

I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an…

— Barry Hannah

I don't have to have my tits out to try to sell some kind of record. I can just be me and…

— Tiffany Villarreal

Have I a secret about playing the piano? It's a very simple one. I sit down on the piano stool and make…

— Artur Schnabel

When I am most successful as a guitar player is when I'm able to just sort of lose myself. You stop thinking…

— Tom Morello

I get asked all the time, "What is a George Strait song?" I know it when I hear it. I don't seek…

— George Strait

My music is very edgy and the energy is very raw, but I am also getting out this positive message without being…

— Shane Bunting

If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an…

— Ayn Rand

The Band was rebelling against the rebellion. The rebellion went to a place where it became too obvious, too trendy, like you…

— Robbie Robertson

Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have…

— Nick Cave

There is an exquisite melody in every heart. If we listen closely, we can hear each other's song. A friend knows the…

— Sent In By Soumya

You were better to me than I was to myself. For me, there's you and there ain't nobody else.

— James Taylor

When I'm feeling awful, music is the only thing that releases the pressure. It's been the best psychiatrist I've ever had.

— Hank Williams III

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.

— Tom Verlaine

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are…

— Pablo Picasso

When someone gives you a piece of music, they are really giving you a piece of themselves.

— Gord Downie

In 2012, I dropped a song called 'Like To Party,' and that just took me all over the world.

— Burna Boy

That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for…

— Dave Grohl

There's music for when you're sad or happy or in love; there's music for every moment in life.

— Haley Pullos

The moment someone says, 'Hey, everyone, listen to the words in this song,' your party is over.

— Amy Sedaris

["A Deal with God"] was the first single off Hounds of Love. I'd put a lot of work into putting that album…

— Kate Bush

“But let none, he added, pray to have the full music; for it will make him who hears it a footsore traveller…

— John Buchan

Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we…

— Kerry King

To me, music is that which connects human hearts. It is something that takes you to unknown levels.

— Ilaiyaraaja

I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it…

— Ciara

There are so many dimensions in my music, and I think mostly what people hear is hope - the describing of experiences…

— Michael Tolcher

I feel like people are now praying for some authenticity and some human touch to music. There's no simpler outlet to that…

— Mura Masa

I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?

— David Bowie

The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I hear a really good pop song every now and then. 'ROAR' by Katy Perry, I love that! 'Poker Face'... Oh! What…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

If you let record companies mold you into what they think you should be, your career won't last no matter how good…

— B-Real

I don't think people hear my songs and think, "Well this is a way to make a bunch of money."

— Greg Brown

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to…

— Jello Biafra

I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.

— Chrissie Hynde

This time, we went up to Big Bear for 3-4 weeks and sequestered ourselves writing this album [ "The Black Crown"].

— Mitch Lucker