Song Quotes · Page 451

Unfortunately it's easy to just label us as part of a Laurel Canyon sound. What we try to do is to be…

— Taylor Goldsmith

The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their…

— George Crumb

It's the music that pulls me in and makes me forget about my problems at home. Music is my drug, the one…

— Simone Elkeles

There's a lot of bands that blow up quickly, but then they die quickly. Longevity is the healthy thing; that's the pursuit.

— Mark Foster

Normally I don't compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.

— Kate Bush

“In-Between the strumming of the strings... a Life is Lived and Ends... Play your music well, It's All you have to Give”

— Dr. Marc

I like big songs that feel quite upbeat, the songs that people love - me singing them, less so.

— Lou Sanders

We should invest in healthcare... We can and we should do all of this without succumbing to the siren song of big…

— Tate Reeves

Of course, we didn't survive to play all the way through the '90s, so I can say that - as I said,…

— Phil Lesh

All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as…

— Henry David Thoreau

I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was - I…

— Ellie Goulding

“All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had very little in common…

— Bob Dylan

When I was six, my best friend's parents bought him a piano. My mother noticed that every time I would go to…

— Herbie Hancock

As long as it elicits some kind of thought on the listener's part, that's good. If no one's paying attention to the…

— Russell Mael

No record company in the world would say, 'We're not promoting if you keep calling somebody a snitch.' They know what makes…

— Cam'ron

When I was growing up, until I was 18 or 19, I was totally invested in the classical music world. I had…

— Katie Stelmanis

The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation.

— Norman Granz

on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.

— Jean Genet

My mother said that if I went off and joined the quartet, I would end up marrying a musician and living in…

— Marian McPartland

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Asking to hold a musician’s instrument is roughly similar to asking to kiss a man’s wife.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

'Communication Breakdown' - it was punchy and direct, with a real attitude that was different to other bands going around.

— Jimmy Page

I wrote the song 'I LOVE U, U LOVE ME' wishing to have the most fantastic show ever.

— Ok Taec-yeon

When you first start out, it's a big thing you're always like 'does my voice sound good?'

— Dean Lewis

My music is quite diverse, but it blends Grime, Hip-Hop, Old Skool and other urban genres together.

— Bugzy Malone

“Why only one song, one speech, one text at a time?" - "When Our Lips Speak Together”

— Luce Irigaray

The man who talks to his wife about his dog instead of singing a love song is a wise man.

— Vikrant Parsai

The 'Aldous Harding' record isn't easily placed because it wasn't trying to sound like anything. It was quite organic.

— Aldous Harding

Selena recorded a song I had written and she left my parts in on the middle eight so it ended up being…

— Pixie Lott

Dear Music, thank you for being there when no one else was. But please, enough with the ballads for awhile.

— Anonymous

I see myself as the ambassador of hip-hop. I do songs with people from everywhere. We ain't got nothing but love.

— Nate Dogg

When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.

— Linda Grant

I hope somebody does this to all my crap demos when I'm dead, making them into hit songs.

— George Harrison

The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.

— Thomas Beecham

Sometimes my lyrics may describe a situation that happened to a friend. Other times, I create a story from the ground up.

— Bridgit Mendler

If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.

— Nikki Sixx

In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.

— Anonymous

“Symphonies begin with one note; fires with one flame; gardens with one flower; and masterpieces with one stroke.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.

— Rip Torn

My wife is an incredible pianist. I don't think there's anything my wife can't do, in all actuality.

— Matt Hardy