Song Quotes · Page 564

Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe…

— Fay Weldon

We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher…

— Valerie Simpson

I used to sing in a choir when I was young. My mom forced me hardbody. I was hella young, like 5…

— Goldlink

Drinking and partying never appealed to me in lyrics - they don't have a lot of meaning behind them.

— Ava Max

You're like the lyrics to my favourite song; hard to forget and always on my mind.

— Anonymous

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

— Ken Burns

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didnt learn the…

— Chuck Brown

A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.

— George H. W. Bush

Sometimes when you grieve, you grieve at a time where you don't really expect it. You might hear a song or you…

— Michael B. Jordan

The girl that introduced The Smiths' song 'Asleep' to me was an important musical influence that I met in college. From there…

— Stephen Chbosky

Records that were the sound of somebody - more often than not, a she - speaking with a voice that had never…

— Greil Marcus

I won't forget those kind of things, but I just want to write them down and look at them. It's almost like…

— Justin Vernon

If you're a musician, you can practice your guitar every day and write songs, but when you're an actor, you can't just…

— Winona Ryder

So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it…

— Andy Wilkinson

The thing I realised about composition is, we remember most composers for four bars of music. Four singable bars of music. Pretty…

— Bryce Dessner

The lesson there is that there's no hiding the sound of a band that is bored with its own music. Whatever it…

— Steve Berlin

When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.

— Eric Dolphy

The guitar speaks for me and it says things - hopefully - for everybody that I play for.

— Julian Bream

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

— Gary Oldman

“When the music starts, the travel starts! You never remain where you are, you go to somewhere, and you go to everywhere.…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I first started playing the violin at 6. And then at 7, it was piano. So from then it was just classical…

— Henry Lau

Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise.

— Squarepusher

All The Way Over' is a song for anybody on a journey to the other side of loss, grief or heartache.

— Sam Ryder

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

— Carrie Underwood

If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.

— Billy Corgan

People are experimenting with streaming, with subscription services, whether it's a Spotify or a Pandora or a Rdio.

— Troy Carter

There were some miles-better bands than us. We were conscious that we weren't the best or the smartest, but we certainly knew…

— Shaun Ryder

At the end of the day, if you follow the music, it'll take you on a really, really great journey

— Mike Dirnt

I got a classical piano training when I was little, and we also had music study lessons where we'd have to listen…

— Kerli

I quit piano and violin because it felt too rigid. It was just my thing, something I fell in love with from…

— Jillian Hervey

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

— John Entwistle

I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.

— Tom Araya

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

— Mary J. Blige

I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.

— Liz Phair

If you drop a phonograph needle on Brasky's nipple, it plays the Beach Boys Pet Sounds.

— Bill Brasky

It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real.

— Kanye West

I've got a dream too, but it's about singing and dancing and making people happy. That's the kind of dream that gets…

— Kermit The Frog

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

— Trisha Yearwood

It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.

— Norah Jones

The pressure's on both hearts beat like a metronome both in sync like a justin song, feel so right but it's just…

— Drake