Song Quotes · Page 511

I see myself more like a novelist or a polygamist than a musician in terms of my output.

— Mark Kozelek

You know that song that asks, "Why do fools fall in love?"? I think the obvious answer is because they're fools.

— Ellen DeGeneres

I think it's OK to compose songs and sing them about questions that we don't have answers to yet.

— Rene Marie

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and…

— Martin Luther

I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me…

— Jimmy Buffett

That's what metal means to me, feeling that feeling when you hear something that totally turns you on.

— Chris Reifert

Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.

— Carlo Grante

I'm trying to just keep pushing on the things I've been wanting to do in my life and in music. And think…

— Kamasi Washington

I think music should be free. I think all communication should be free. I think people should respect artists, and there should…

— KRS-One

“banjo. A plucked, fretted lute where a thin skin diaphragm is stretched over a circular metal frame amplifying the sound of the…

— Liz Doherty

I was always brutally teased for being George Harrison's son. That was from the age of about four or five, before I…

— Dhani Harrison

When you play guitar and strum, you're using biceps and triceps to move up and down. I realized you could just turn…

— Jake Shimabukuro

When I dabble in watching the news and reading about current events, I tend to get a future negative view, and that's…

— Matt Bellamy

The thing that sucks the most about it is that everybody steals music. You spend thousands and thousands of dollars to make…

— Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein

I've always loved 'Umbrella.' Funny enough, my ex-husband wrote that, and I'm not saying it was meant for me or anything -…

— Christina Milian

What I basically do, is create a rough version of the song, and send it to the director for his approval. If…

— Tanishk Bagchi

“Mourning was its own kind of music—the sound of so many hearts, of so many breaths, of so many standing together.”

— Victoria Schwab

It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him…

— Jeff Lynne

I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching…

— Florence Welch

Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!

— Alice Herz-Sommer

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song'…

— Kenny G

I feel it's much easier to be honest or be myself in songs when I'm playing. That's why I felt, 'You know,…

— Alice Merton

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

— Phoebe Snow

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not…

— Virgil Thomson

I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour…

— Anne Akiko Meyers

“The limbo of life is like a song, a melody that comes around occasionally but that sticks in your head and never…

— Leigh Hershkovich

For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose…

— Khalil Gibran

And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.

— Smokey Robinson

'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.

— Bruce Springsteen

Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

— Friedrich Ebert

But Mike was like a Bjork song-all happy and giddy and fun on the surface, but bubbling with turmoil and pain underneath.

— Sara Shepard

I want to make myself better and get working with some of my biggest influences and make the best music I can.

— Rex Orange County

Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.

— Bayard Taylor

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

— Steve Lacy

Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.

— Moby

The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.

— Anthony de Mello

And you know there’s nothing like writing a song about someone who’s mean to you, and just makes your life miserable…and then…

— Taylor Swift

“To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of…

— Dani Shapiro

“MOST DAYS MY LIFE CAN BE SUMMED UP IN MOVIE QUOTES AND HIP HOP AND R&B LYRICS ”

— Qwana Reynolds-Frasier

You won't hear any more alcohol songs from Snoop Dogg - unless I stumble upon some Hennessy.

— Snoop Dogg