Song Quotes · Page 629

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional…

— Will Durant

Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.

— Alex Van Halen

Every day, somebody has a song they want you to hear, and you're stupid if you don't listen to it because you…

— Blake Shelton

We're just a band. We don't have to be the 'cool' thing or the 'in' thing. It's real important we get out…

— Slash

My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships.

— Kenny Rogers

You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So,…

— Billy Corgan

Music helps immensely with math skills, and math skills help immensely with music skills.

— Michael Giacchino

It was [Kanye West] who spoke, and then we met and recorded some songs. After, you know what it is: we all…

— Young Thug

I suppose musicians have the kind of arrogant attitude that they can actually offer the world something, because through their passive power,…

— Lisa Gerrard

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically,…

— Roscoe Mitchell

I'm a real Otis Redding fan, and I just think he sounds so good. He sounds like he's always at the end…

— Lizz Wright

The spirituality of the music is something that I always search for in what I do, because I think that music has…

— Ludovico Einaudi

The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the…

— Chris Thile

Whether it's an inspiring song or whether it's an entertaining song - whatever it might be about it - I just want…

— Danny Gokey

I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't…

— John Prine

The idea that music is art has been something we advocated for years. And yet it doesn't receive the same treatment as…

— RZA

Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

— Keith Richards

Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams; And sorrow tracketh wrong, As echo follows song.

— Harriet Martineau

The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of…

— Claude Debussy

Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.

— Rick Warren

Unless I've got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it's going to be tough to sell a lot of records.

— Kenny G

I get lots of requests from people to write sad songs, and I'm like, 'No, that's rubbish patter.'

— Lewis Capaldi

I'm just doing what I do best and that's what makes good music, and that's how you can relate to people.

— Snoop Dogg

“To this day, I can’t hear “Fight Song,” “Roar,” or “Rise Up” without getting emotional.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

When I became a parent I forgot about the part of myself which was very emotional, very dour a little depressed -…

— Roland Orzabal

To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

— Sarah Dessen

If Madison Avenue advertising executives were to pick a song that would best represent America, the last one they would choose is…

— Ronald Kessler

Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you…

— Jonny Greenwood

Maybe we're just stupid and don't realize you can't make music that sounds like a chase scene from a 'Scooby Doo' cartoon…

— Andrew VanWyngarden

Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework.

— Yoko Ono

Everyone's attention span these days is limited to how long it takes to flick the iPod wheel on to the next song.

— Mat McNerney

I realised music was my calling, and I am one of those who's strongly bound by an infectious enthusiasm and passion.

— Sid Sriram

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I've always used songs and music and songwriting as a way to sort of let feelings go.

— Adam Gontier

My music comes from heartbreak - from feeling what it's like to lose everything and not being able to express it through…

— Bibi Bourelly

The whole reason to make a solo album is to express what you can't express with the B-52s. The B's are so…

— Kate Pierson

When you have a song on the radio your career and your life changes maybe for the better and maybe for the…

— Loudon Wainwright III

Body Electric... It is the first song from my new short film called # Tropico that is coming out in the end…

— Lana Del Rey

The most important thing is to find people that you enjoy - friends that you enjoy playing music with.

— Michael Glawogger