Song Quotes · Page 633

It was all part of being a Beatle, really: just getting lugged around and thrust into rooms full of press men taking…

— George Harrison

I feel really proud of the work I did at Apple Music, and I don't take anything away from it that's negative…

— Bozoma Saint John

I think that because I have so many different influences, and that shows in my music, that different people can connect with…

— Aubrie Sellers

Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to…

— Anton Webern

There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I try to take the foundations of what music is and add some type of twist to it.

— Jay IDK

As a child actor, I had sung a song in the Bengali film 'Bhagyadebata' but it wasn't kept in the final edit.

— Soham Chakraborty

I express myself through song when I can't let people in on my thoughts otherwise. I need the creative process.

— Iman Shumpert

That's why you put out records: hoping that people will connect with them. I mean, I play music for myself, for sure,…

— Jim James

I started playing the piano aged four in an effort to copy Grandpa, who was constantly showing off and entertaining us all,…

— Richard Coles

There were bands back in the '90s when I started building a rock CD collection or whatever, I would get their CD…

— Lacey Sturm

I've always kind of been a little skeptical about bands that won't play their hits. That's really arrogant to me as a…

— Art Alexakis

I suppose we'll make money off our album and our singles and stuff, but, like, they were made as we wanted them,…

— Sid Vicious

“Stupidity is singing the rebel anthem and hoping you won't get caught, Tucker," he had chided her. "But bravery is singing it…

— Emory Sharplin

There's a definite machinery behind everything that a band does, and sometimes it's hard to figure out how far to go in…

— Ted Leo

I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do' or something: They might like it…

— Ornette Coleman

No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

— R. Kelly

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect…

— Kurt Cobain

Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!

— J. K. Rowling

“There are millions of songs in the world, and millions of ways to connect them into mixes. Making the connections is part…

— Rob Sheffield

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

— Toru Takemitsu

The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment

— Pythagoras

Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end…

— Shawnee Smith

I get asked if I mind when someone burns my music. I'm just flattered that people want to.

— Corey Smith

When a different type of music is put in front of you, you can choose for yourself what you're supposed to like.

— Sigrid

So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

— Duncan Sheik

I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song,

— Sufjan Stevens

Every year I do a song for my homeboy Valley, who passed away from a heart attack.

— YBN Nahmir

I've learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with.

— Jeremy Denk

It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if…

— Vance Joy

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

— Taylor Swift

Just equating my price to one hit song is taking credit away from my lifetime's work.

— Anu Malik

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.

— Lucinda Williams

I listen to music all the time, and a lot of the things I cover are the standards of my time, and…

— Dianne Reeves

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius”

— Confucius

'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

— Chip Esten

When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make…

— Arca

I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.

— Lola Kirke

I obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me.

— Melanie Martinez