Song Quotes · Page 62

My work is more to me than just music.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I use my voice as an instrument.

— Enya

A song is a meaningful thing.

— Doug Walters

Melody is the essence of music.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

— Alistair Cooke

Start off each day with a song

— Jimmy Durante

Music should never be harmless.

— Robbie Robertson

I love so many styles of music.

— Sam Hunt

My father played fiddle and the accordion.

— Eddie Rabbitt

I don't want to focus too much on trying to write a song for radio.

— Tones and I

I love AC/ DC and I love Led Zeppelin and I love guitar riffs.

— Mike Campbell

All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords.

— David Berman

You can listen to 'Cosmic' and truly get to know me, which I think is special.

— Bazzi

Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.

— Virgil Thomson

I make music because I like making music.

— Natalia Kills

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

— Patrick Stump

All my songs are based on personal experience, and 'Lost Without You' came out fully born.

— Freya Ridings

I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song…

— Emily Haines

If my dog Ella, named after the Rihanna song 'Umbrella', could be with me at all times, that would make me happy.

— Alex Scott

Music is really important to me; Kurt Cobain is important to me. Hearing Nirvana was pretty life-changing.

— Jeffree Star

The romantic stuff comes a lot easier when you're experiencing true love. It feels better, it feels more natural to record love…

— Aaron Tippin

A great composition or lyrics no longer decide whether something is good. What matters is, how much has it been seen.

— Diljit Dosanjh

I'm a very slow songwriter; it takes me sometimes years to write one song, if I ever finish.

— Michael McDonald

I feel like humans are a disease. It's a hard thing to communicate in a pop song. I mean, who wants to…

— Zola Jesus

I really like to think of each record as its own thing. So, for sure, but I hate the idea of being…

— Ty Segall

It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward…

— Dwight Yoakam

If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or…

— Stephen Chbosky

Name ten songs you want to hear again before you die, get all of your friends together and scream them. Because right…

— Paul Baribeau

In a band with humor, it's easy to be a caricature, especially when you've been around as long as we have. But…

— Kate Pierson

I think Jive was just a shady label that they didn't want artists in the same room like, 'Hey, what you making?'…

— Too Short

Doing a concert, I look at a room full of different people, and I see you've got Muslims, you've got Jews, you've…

— Fantastic Negrito

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and…

— Chris Martin

I've always wanted to make songs.

— MO

I don't like talking about music.

— Martha Wainwright

“My gift is my song”

— Baz Luhrmann

“Music is the language of memory”

— Jodi Picoult

I am not a very good singer.

— Anirudh Ravichander

I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

— Henry Rollins

“Without music life would B flat”

— Dulcinea Martinez

I've been heavy into music.

— Le'Veon Bell