Song Quotes · Page 614

Among whom the gods bless, high on the list are the music people, who tune into celestial vibe-brations and give mortals a…

— Ruby Dee

“Music has the power to shake society, especially if the bass is turned way up.”

— Jarod Kintz

Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four…

— Dave Van Ronk

I wish you'd listen closer to the songs I play because the lyrics speak the words I fail to say.

— Sushan

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

— Stan Getz

I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.

— Alan Palomo

It's [Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life.

— Jane Monheit

I'd love to write a song that someone else sings that can actually sing really well.

— Bo Burnham

"Straight Edge" was a song about my life. There was no structure, no premise as if I was forming a club. There…

— Ian MacKaye

“If radios and microwaves merged, then the ideal pop song would be three minutes, or the length of time a bag of…

— Jarod Kintz

There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin"…

— Aaron Watson

I think one of the reasons [Nikolai] Medtner hasn't had a chance is that his music needs very, very committed performances. If…

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

With Free, we had phased out all of the blues material and wanted to phase in all original material, and the only…

— Paul Rodgers

I don't really write journals and stuff and then adapt them to music, it's completely within the form of the song. My…

— Emily Haines

I chose not to jump into the media frenzy and defend myself, though I was begged to be on every single TV…

— Marilyn Manson

Always in movies... drummers are portrayed as the dumb character... I don't know why. Most of the drummers I know are the…

— G Flip

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.

— Joni Mitchell

There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.

— John Cage

The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting…

— Jennifer Egan

“The creative process is beautiful and magical thing. Whether its a song, a radio story, or a novel, it all springs from…

— Greg Kihn

I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're…

— Vince Gill

When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was…

— Trombone Shorty

For my theme song, my leather black jeans on. My by any means on, pardon I'm getting my scream on.

— Kanye West

I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.

— Jessie J

A lot of people hear the records on the radio, they aren't absolutely sure who exactly Tears For Fears is, they just…

— Roland Orzabal

Right, those relationships with your parents and family are the hardest to figure out, and the same patterns get carried into a…

— Stone Gossard

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

— Bill Wyman

Taking the higher ground can be difficult, so it really helps when you can write those feelings into a song.

— Bishop Briggs

I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the…

— Ella Henderson

Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.

— Johann Sebastian Bach

It's sort of funny to have songs get big about like, how much you feel like nobody likes you. It's sort of…

— Olivia Rodrigo

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

— Joan Baez

In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

— Bob Dylan

Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.

— Henry Rollins

“Adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the chord of monotony is stretched most tight, then it breaks…

— G.K. Chesterton

I wanted to be Rick Danko for most of my life despite the fact that I didn't play the bass!

— Jack Savoretti

When we made 'North Hills,' I had never heard Warren Zevon, and I never heard the Grateful Dead. I had never heard…

— Taylor Goldsmith

“The changes in her are like music missing the refrain. The song's transformed, though what's left remains familiar.”

— Corrine Jackson

Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.

— Wynton Marsalis

The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords / If when the soul unto the lines accords.

— George Herbert