Song Quotes · Page 504

My music has to do with imaginary things, so I took that concept and used the whole "the music is not the…

— Mister Lies

I grew up singing in church. My family owned funeral homes so I would sing for the occasional funeral, as well.

— Christopher Jackson

Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in…

— Charles Hazlewood

I've always listened to a wide variety of music, and I know that shows through my songwriting evolution.

— Jeongyeon

I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it.…

— David Friedman

I have an ulcerated vocal chord. Can't speak or whisper for 7days. While directing...

— Bryan Singer

“Alfonso absorbed the music playing. How comforting he found it, a piece of his cousin's soul immune to erasure, beyond invisibility, living,…

— Gar McVey-Russell

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

— Frank Zappa

“Your violin has only two strings,” I say. “You’re missing the other two.” Yes, he says. He’s well aware. “All I want…

— Steve Lopez

“To its left stood a transistor radio, which was emitting and indeed had been emitting for some considerable time, a symphonic movement…

— Edmund Crispin

Music is one of those businesses in which, if you're talented and hustle hard enough, you can make it - specifically as…

— Troy Carter

I had the chance to play with Benny 'The King' Carter here in Copenhagen for three days in the Montmartre, and two…

— Ben Webster

The best tunes are songs with a face. You recognize them. You know them. It’s like a person. They have a face…

— Cindy Walker

“Here is a rewriting of the British national anthem, by 'Camille, Australia'. It is, she explains, chiefly for the benefit of Microsoft…

— David Crystal

I've found that as I've learned to improvise melodically, it seems like I can come up with a bigger variety of stuff.…

— Paul Gilbert

I've had my differences with Massive Attack, but you can't deny what they've done. They've changed the face of music. They should…

— Tricky

Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.

— D. H. Lawrence

I'm changing my flow up so much on every song that you're not going to be able to compare me to nobody…

— Tiffany Foxx

People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the average person can't…

— Todd Rundgren

I never want to write the same song twice as it's super important to me, I never want to make a safe…

— Ruel

I want to make sure I continue to make good music that my mom and everybody around me can be proud of.

— Ruben Studdard

The first time I heard rock'n'roll on a big sound system would have been at a fairground at the seaside. That's a…

— John Cooper Clarke

If you're a musician, you're a musician; you don't ever get that out of your bones.

— Alex Clare

The mind and body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs and music.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Sam Phillips responded most to a song of mine called, "Hey Porter," which was on the first record.

— Johnny Cash

I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the point of view of…

— Troye Sivan

Being from Atlanta I grew up on Kilo Ali and Outkast... the only Biggie song I knew was 'Juicy.'

— Rich Homie Quan

Obviously [Black] Sabbath is definitely a huge name and of course deserving with Ozzy coming back.

— John Petrucci

“The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale" features Clapton, Nelson, Knopfler, Tom Petty, Albert Lee, John Mayer, Don White and Jim Keltner…

— Anonymous

The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way...…

— Michael McKean

I feel like, as an artist and a songwriter, I have to reach certain audiences and give people a little bit of…

— Romeo Santos

And my biggest revelation that will never be beaten is the Beatles. I couldn't believe that I'd gone my whole life without…

— Ryan Ross

I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows…

— Karen O

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

Sometimes the songs just come to me. I don't sit down to write like you'd sit down to make a pair of…

— Donovan

I think that layers in music, whether it's layers juxtaposing emotions and feelings or layers of texture, make for a more interesting…

— St. Lucia

Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.

— Henry Rollins

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

— Zoltan Kodaly

I've never done any vocal warm ups, ever. As a matter of fact, I learned to sing playing three sets a night…

— Eric Carmen

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut…

— Wynton Marsalis