Song Quotes · Page 487

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

— Kris Allen

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the…

— Charles de Lint

When a song comes on, whose face pops up in your head?:) whose name makes your stomach drop when you hear it?:)

— Anonymous

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

— Bob Brookmeyer

Sometimes you just have to turn the volume up full blast and lose yourself in the music...

— Unkown

Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves…

— Yasmina Khadra

“Why buy vinyl when he could keep all his music on a device that fit in his pocket?”

— William Miller

I have songs - even from my first album, I've always been on some socially conscience/love whatever music, you know?

— Raheem DeVaughn

Sweets [Edison] can say more with one note than any other Jazz player alive... an approach that stresses simplicity, glorious tone, natural…

— Oscar Peterson

The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not…

— T Bone Burnett

What was life has crumbled. What was form, now falls away. Mortal chains unbind and the soul s free. May you find…

— Yasmine Galenorn

'Memoryhouse' came out, and there wasn't a single review and zero sales, and after about a year, it was deleted. So I…

— Max Richter

I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes…

— Jason Isbell

“You should all know how to read music. It's as basic to understanding the composer's reaction as knowing how to read words…

— Jennifer Laurens

I dont know. We dont really fall under a label. Its generally based around rock music, but I guess, theatrical rock? I…

— Brendon Urie

If I feel like I'm going too far in one direction, I just can it. It's a weird thing. Some of my…

— Mac DeMarco

The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind.

— Maria Cristina Mena

I've always been an artist who's about being real and about telling the truth and making music with integrity and talking about…

— Santigold

Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a…

— Bucky Pope

When we recorded 'Iowa,' we jammed, we went through the songs, we played as a band and we recorded as a band.

— Jim Root

'Ice Cream' is such a sweet song, just like ice cream! Whenever I need to relieve some stress, or just want to…

— Dahyun

Of course, we wore silly outfits, the pictures were corny, and some people still focus on that. But ABBA wasn't a big…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

'Shooting Star' started out as the arrangement on the record, and it's developed into a real audience-participation song, just from playing it.

— Paul Rodgers

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

— Jonah Lehrer

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records…

— Al Green

I'm musical in the sense that I can write a song, but I realised when I was learning the piano as a…

— Leslie Bricusse

In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters.

— Midge Ure

I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the…

— John Lennon

Music is the outlet to bigger and better business; that's what I'm excited about.

— Redman

“Without death life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that could never be sung. For…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I came up with the lyrics and the melody for 'good 4 u' one morning in the shower.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I love, love, love songwriting. It's like the most therapeutic thing in the world.

— Troye Sivan

I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.

— Paul McCartney

It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

— Lupe Fiasco

I long for real and true connection. It has been the theme of all the songs in my whole life.

— Mary Gauthier

Doing an album is like having a business card; to show people what you do. The most important thing to me is…

— Angelique Kidjo

My perception is that there is no distinction in music as many people perceive. The difference lies in the way you hear…

— Ilaiyaraaja

You're always remembering songs you wanna sing except when you're actually at karaoke.

— Sebastian Stan

I get to work with people I love who challenge and inspire me. And I get to sing songs that do that…

— Karen Mason

I said, baby, do you have no shame? She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train.

— Don Henley