Song Quotes · Page 574

“I'd like to hear your opinion on this piece of Beethoven. And remember, it is not Beethoven who is being examined here.”

— Paul Strathern

With music I feel like it's the one time when I don't have to think and I don't have to contrive anything.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I need to get as deep as I can into my own heart to really make people connect and react to the…

— Kyle

For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.

— Charlie Watts

I feel the reasons my songs might seem dark is because of how I viewed the situations I was in and it…

— James Vincent McMorrow

Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.

— Herbie Hancock

I always felt each instrumental and vocal inflection had to be special... I'd spend almost as much time on those as I'd…

— Roy Orbison

You know why Guns n' Roses aren't a good band? Because no black people listen to them.

— Anton Newcombe

I've never acted with my father, but we have always connected through music. He has been a great influence musically. He has…

— Shruti Haasan

“Well, also ask yourself this: do you know what Steve Miller looks like? No, you don’t. Nobody does. He could be standing…

— It Books

Then when we did the untitled record, we just didn't feel like putting joke stuff on it, so we didn't. It wasn't…

— Mark Hoppus

I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about…

— Kate Voegele

Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures…

— Knut Hamsun

Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to…

— Utada Hikaru

There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so…

— Barbara Lazear Ascher

The frequencies of the notes in a scale—do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do—sound to us like they’re rising in equal…

— Steven Strogatz

I have a hard time even calling myself a musician, but I still have to be involved in music in some capacity…

— James Paxton

Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.

— Daniel Ek

[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can…

— Stewart Copeland

I'm just growing so quickly, so my songs are quickly changing on me. But it's fine. I love them for what they…

— Shawn Mendes

I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.

— Kelly Rowland

Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't…

— Caroline Polachek

When punk came along, it made perfect sense to me. I found it melodic. The Clash, Buzzcocks.

— Fred Armisen

I'm not a fitness model; I'm just a singer. If people focus on that, that's what I care about.

— Alessia Cara

There's always a melody running around in my mind and my brain; and I'm really thankful for it.

— John Debney

I always get pissed that I can't make my voice sound like someone from the 50s who had a very girly, innocent…

— Bethany Cosentino

I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

— Marianne Faithfull

My music is about all these things that happen to you while growing up in search for some kind of truth.

— MO

Everyone knows the power of a song and it takes you back to that place. Just that power of words can heal.

— Jimmy Wayne

My fingers are crossed for 'Dekh Lena.' I believe it has shaped very beautifully and also visually the song looks fabulous.

— Tulsi Kumar

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

— Paul McCartney

“Music calms the soul and improves the plasticity, flexibility, and sensitivity of the perceptual world.”

— Debasish Mridha

I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice…

— Black Elk

“Music is undescribable, and no words can be said to understand it. The only way to understand it is to hear it.”

— Allyson McClain

Sometimes it takes a tragedy to bring people together, Other times it just takes music.

— Pink

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.

— Perry Farrell

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or…

— Sinead O'Connor

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because…

— David Guetta

Listening to my records, you feel one way about it when you hear it, but reading my words - that makes us…

— Scarface