Song Quotes · Page 580

The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension

— J. Robbins

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.

— Lenny Kravitz

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone…

— Chris Cornell

Music is a mantra that soothes the soul...something our body has to have. It's important to understand the power of music.

— Michael Jackson

Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture.

— Joseph Addison

I'm asking questions that most people are asking, but just putting a melody or a song to it.

— Sam Fender

When one individual writer sings her song of beauty, she changes the lives of a million others.

— Richard Bach

Even when metal was on the radio, it was always the watered down stuff. There were only a couple real metal bands…

— Wayne Static

In our profession someone can be very brilliant and acquire total technical mastery. Yet in the last resort, the only thing that…

— Herbert von Karajan

Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration.…

— Pythagoras

With Pantera, we lived through so many trend-of-the-day situations - when grunge was huge, we were still a heavy metal band; when…

— Phil Anselmo

I just never really thought of not being involved, because when I write the songs I take them to a certain place…

— Tom Odell

When I started college, I wrote a song 'Pee Jaun,' with a friend. I never intended to make mainstream music, but that…

— Momina Mustehsan

“The song was about a girl who didn't fit in and she didn't care and she was different than everyone else. I…

— Taylor Swift

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an…

— Gavin Bryars

I don't think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it's something that comes with being in bands. I was in a…

— Bruno Mars

People just want the hottest records. It's not really about all the names attached to the project. It's about the work.

— Scott Storch

Music soothes you, especially when you write, sing or play an instrument. It really can be a cure for everything.

— Hope Sandoval

Mike is a genius guitar player and keyboard player. I realized that, with this group, I just joined Mike Keneally's band!

— Joe Satriani

It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.

— James Taylor

You're always starting with a nugget of truth, whether it's a song or an improv scene.

— Matt Besser

Good Charlotte became more than a band and more than the songs: it became something that the fans owned.

— Benji Madden

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical…

— Steve Winwood

When I got the 'Blue Album,' I was 11 years old, 10 years old, and then I convinced my parents to go…

— Brendon Urie

When we did the 'Roots' tour with Cavalera Conspiracy, it was more flashy. It was supposed to be a big deal because…

— Max Cavalera

I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps...

— Amedeo Modigliani

I pray that when people hear my music, they say at the very least 'man I'm glad that someone else feels that…

— Jonathan McReynolds

People like hearing songs that sound like something they've heard before, that's reminiscent of their childhood and of what their parents listened…

— Bonnie McKee

Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.

— Fat Joe

Throughout history, musicians have never counted on intellectual property really getting them rich.

— John Popper

I never want to pick an easy song. I want to continue to challenge myself vocally.

— Hollie Cavanagh

It's hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time.

— Jack White

I'm a songwriter, my love of music has never left me and I literally don't seem to be able to stop writing…

— Mick Hucknall

It would be important for someone to understand how much our music means to us. Our music comes first right now and…

— Isaac Hanson

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I…

— Gladys Knight

Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.

— Ezra Taft Benson

I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.

— Mac Miller

You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.

— Simon Cowell

Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk…

— John Conyers

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

— Ray Charles