Song Quotes · Page 457

My music reflects the time on which we live, both in terms of arrangements, as well as in the subjects treated in…

— Lara Fabian

I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that…

— Eleanor Robson Belmont

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to…

— Dave Haywood

The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My…

— Laura Mvula

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

— Plato

Even though other people wrote my songs I put my stamp on them. I have a connection, but there is no truer…

— Justin Guarini

Woman in your dream, sleeping on my bed… smoke Joins till our eyes be red… take shots till our chest burn... hahahahahaa…

— Junior Dè Rèál Testament

I'm not really that comfortable, to be honest, singing about my darkest moments.

— KT Tunstall

These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little…

— David Bowie

It was a big deal for us to be on Ozzfest, especially as one of the main headliners and being the band…

— Zacky Vengeance

Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me,…

— Ryan Adams

I don't care who you talk about down south, Boosie gonna win. I'm the only one to put out a whole album,…

— Lil Boosie

If you put a song on SoundCloud for free and it blows up, you'll drop it as a single and maybe get…

— Young De

We [with my mother] listened to music when I was a kid. We listened to a little bit of Bob's [Gordon] music,…

— Jon Gordon

I saw Berry in concert a couple of times in the late '70s - and like almost every North American male of…

— Elvis Mitchell

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if…

— Robert Smith

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.

— Frank Zappa

For me, I would get so frustrated because I would see these other bands just whip by us.

— Fred Armisen

My music is my way of reaching out to the world and I am glad that through the right projects I am…

— Tanishk Bagchi

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Being in a band is like a small family. You travel together, make music, and share time with each other.

— Mohit Chauhan

Babe, I'll walk the seven seas when I believe that there's a reason. To write you a love song today, today.

— Sara Bareilles

I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth…

— Olive Schreiner

I hear a good song and I start thinking, 'Oh shoot. You know there's a story that can be told to this,'…

— Uzodinma Iweala

I've fully turned a corner in terms of thinking about my own voice. I think I have a pretty cool voice, just…

— Bowen Yang

Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than…

— Martin Luther

I think an album is all about the songs you've worked on and the journey it's taken to get there.

— Bishop Briggs

I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.

— Alex Cox

Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that…

— John Cage

I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music.

— The Notorious B.I.G

In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.

— Anonymous

If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose…

— Aaron Copland

The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.

— Kailash Kher

Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.

— Jim Morrison

I really like worship music. It settles my soul. Gets me back on track. The lyrics are almost like a prayer, so…

— Jodi Benson

There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make…

— George Eliot

I've always been music-oriented. My dad was a musician, and I listened to the radio all of the time.

— Timothy B. Schmit

You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch, but the…

— Thundercat

When you're listening to music while you're sad all what you are focusing on is the lyrics , but the lyrics is…

— Spido

I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.

— Neil Farber