Song Quotes · Page 578

I think music can be therapeutic and a really positive thing, but that seeing a therapist is the best form of therapy…

— Olly Alexander

For people to link my music to their lives, it's incredible, there's no other feeling like it.

— Adele

Metal needs to be exposed to more people, so it's good for rock if there's bigger bands.

— M. Shadows

If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like…

— Holly Near

But if you work in the rock industry, you should realize that the most important bands are the troublemakers.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

— Robert Glasper

I was short and I had a really high voice, and now my voice is low and I'm tall.

— Greyson Chance

There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to…

— Duke Ellington

In the car on my way to the studio, I was listening to 'Where Are U Now' with Justin Bieber and Jack…

— Zara Larsson

I've been playing piano my whole life but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made really. Try to imagine if…

— Caio Fonseca

So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the…

— Mike Wilson

I had written the song 'aaza aaza Shamiyane ke tale... ' for Ghai's film 'Yuvvraj' but he felt the song did not…

— Gulzar

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Or so the poet…

— Richard Stidham

Punk gave me the strength to think, "Yeah, you can stand up and be counted, and do what you want in life,…

— Steve Diggle

I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that…

— Ariel Rechtshaid

If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself, Now, every…

— Judy Collins

I was listening 'Plastic Ono Band,' the John Lennon album a lot, and that might have had some inspiration on me.

— Rostam Batmanglij

“Dude: What do Pink Floyd and Dale Earnhardt have in common? Me: The wall was their last hit.”

— Jason Myers

If I was 13 years old and Kurt Cobain tweeted me some advice or even just said hi, my whole world would…

— Mark Foster

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

— Ritchie Blackmore

The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in…

— Kevin Bacon

Frank [Zappa] was not a big fan of having lyrics, but sometimes he had things to say that lent themselves to lyrics.

— Gail Zappa

I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll pull them tight to…

— Brandi Carlile

Growing up, all I cared about in a song, before I really listened to lyrics, was that beat.

— Walker Hayes

I just can't bring myself to see Sabbath without Bill Ward, because he was such an integral part of that band.

— Joey Jordison

A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words,…

— Taylor Swift

Mem'ry All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days Life was beautiful then.

— Trevor Nunn

Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.

— Adam McKay

“Say what you want to say, and let the words fall out. Honestly, I wanna see you be brave!”

— Sara Barellies Brave

Music completes me in a way that nothing else ever will. It saves me every day, gives my life a purpose, and…

— Anonymous

Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men.

— Eve Babitz

My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my…

— John Legend

The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together.

— Richard Hamming

If all the elements are in place, you should get 80 percent of what a song has to offer no matter how…

— James Blake

I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much…

— Patty Griffin

I grew up listening to a lot of classic jazz, and stuff like The Beatles, and old Motown stuff, and a lot…

— Alison Sudol

When I think of my high school days, the song that I think about is Deana Carter's 'Strawberry Wine.'

— Lainey Wilson

The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and…

— Sun Ra

I'm always very conscious because I like to give time between records, even though I feel like I write music that will…

— Visionist