Song Quotes · Page 52

I sing in key, thank you very much.

— Burton Cummings

“Always, there was music.”

— Alex George

Where words fail, music speaks.

— Hans Christian Andersen

Original music is always appreciated.

— Bappi Lahiri

I can operate in half-a-song format.

— Frank Ocean

Music has always been transnational;

— Yo-Yo Ma

Jazz is what I play for a living.

— Louis Armstrong

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

— Andy Serkis

It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.

— David Sylvian

Where you fail to speak music says the words that were ment to be said.

— Mee

The Beatles are dying in the wrong order.

— Victor Lewis-Smith

I learned to play drums to the 'Blue Album.'

— Brendon Urie

Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.

— Modest Mouse

When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.

— Gary Numan

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

— Henry David Thoreau

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

— Eric Nam

Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.

— Lorna Luft

I don't have a problem rhyming "bar" with "car" - I do it all the time - but sometimes it doesn't feel…

— Craig Finn

My songs are very much a kind of psychoanalysis. I am very introspective in my songs, and I am working through, always.

— Vic Chesnutt

I would love to choreograph a song for Sanjay Leela Bhansali... that's my dream.

— Shakti Mohan

I really have shaken hands with where my voice is right now. I think it's got a little deeper; it's got some…

— Emmylou Harris

I don't think I've ever spent more than an hour on any one song, but that doesn't count the thinking that goes…

— Henry Mancini

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

— Carson McCullers

The Ramones were American, and I knew about them, and I thought they were interesting. But they were like a pop band…

— Rick Nielsen

I've found that when I'm having trouble solidifying a character or a scene, that music will often free my subconscious just that…

— Kim Harrison

“Because music is like hope. Between the strings in this box," he ran his fingers along the keys of the piano and…

— R.S. Belcher

I'm pretty critical, but I'm also pretty good at letting go once it's done. There's this existential argument that comes in, at…

— Chris Cornell

The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my…

— Dhani Harrison

You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the…

— Gene Wolfe

You're beautiful and sad," I said finally, not looking at him when I did. "Just like your eyes. You're like a song…

— Maggie Stiefvater

They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come…

— Oscar Wilde

Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know…

— Charles Hazlewood

“Life is filled with music and rhythms”

— Julius Veal

Music is my ultimate passion in life.

— Selah Louise Marley

My music is about identity.

— Rostam Batmanglij

I think my music is very positive.

— Guy Sebastian

Adults take our songs out of context.

— Cliff Williams

Rock n' roll is a participatory sport.

— Steven Van Zandt

I'm compelled to make music.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

You’re a song, a wished-for song.

— Rumi