Song Quotes · Page 469

The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment

— Pythagoras

Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end…

— Shawnee Smith

“There are millions of songs in the world, and millions of ways to connect them into mixes. Making the connections is part…

— Rob Sheffield

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

— Toru Takemitsu

Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!

— J. K. Rowling

When a different type of music is put in front of you, you can choose for yourself what you're supposed to like.

— Sigrid

I get asked if I mind when someone burns my music. I'm just flattered that people want to.

— Corey Smith

Every year I do a song for my homeboy Valley, who passed away from a heart attack.

— YBN Nahmir

hither,hither, from thy home,airy sprite, i bid thee come! born of roses, fed on dew, charms and potions canst thow brew? bring…

— Louisa May Alcott

I was about to walk on stage at the Kansas Speedway - I was playing a NASCAR race - and I said…

— Brett Eldredge

Music was more fitted to my temperament. If you were feeling sad and down in the boxing gym, you'd get hit more…

— Bugzy Malone

I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one…

— Andrew Bird

When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already…

— Sampha

I love the songs we've written together [with Ivo Moring] and believe that Rock music is coming back with a vengeance. There…

— Wendy Starland

I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body…

— Shalom Harlow

Music is powerful, it can change your mood, the way you feel, and change your heart. Be careful what music you allow…

— Ash Sweeney

I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song,

— Sufjan Stevens

So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

— Duncan Sheik

Just equating my price to one hit song is taking credit away from my lifetime's work.

— Anu Malik

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

— Henry Ward Beecher

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

— Taylor Swift

I've learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with.

— Jeremy Denk

It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if…

— Vance Joy

I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.

— Lucinda Williams

I listen to music all the time, and a lot of the things I cover are the standards of my time, and…

— Dianne Reeves

When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make…

— Arca

'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

— Chip Esten

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius”

— Confucius

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

— Bill Frisell

There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.

— Rick Rubin

I obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me.

— Melanie Martinez

I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.

— Lola Kirke

When your songs are like your babies, even the one that you know aren't great, you still love.

— Cody Johnson

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.

— Phil Collins

Life is like a Piano, white keys are happy days, black keys are sad days, and both are needed to make music

— Anonymous

To record an album is cathartic, or at least it was with 'Belus,' but to make music is more fulfilling than anything…

— Varg Vikernes

My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

— Carl Sandburg

Music is like my secret garden. It's where I heal myself from every pain that I feel. It's like a therapy.

— Jain

Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change…

— Thom Yorke

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

— Anonymous