Song Quotes · Page 635

Fighting to get up in the morning, fighting to get on stage, fighting to make music that makes people feel good when…

— Blackbear

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without…

— Mark Twain

My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.

— Ricky Martin

“Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.”

— Abigail Biddinger

To us the music is the most important element and they lyrics are something that adds an extra element.

— Ron Mael

Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I'm a guitar player. I've carved out my own style of guitar music, so I don't look for inspiration with playing guitar.

— Jamie Hince

“Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”

— William Congreve

“This one is the Andante Moderato from his sixth symphony. It’s uplifting. Way uplifting. We won’t have you listen to the rest…

— Terez Mertes Rose

I believe the advantage music has is the capacity to multiply itself, the capacity to keep itself in space and access itself…

— Bocafloja

There are a lot of people that impacted me. I remember hearing Oscar Peterson live at the Blue Note, which was very…

— Jon Gordon

I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know…

— Nick Hornby

There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed.…

— Anthony Trollope

Whether I'm trying to or not, I have this inherent feeling that music is uplifting; it makes you feel victorious, and that…

— Andy Biersack

“It has been well documented that for a few decades MTV played music videos. VJs like J.J. Jackson, ‘Downtown’ Julie Brown (‘we…

— John Chattman

You don't have to just hit nails with hammers, you know; you can use a hammer to beat somebody's brains in, to…

— Stephen Bruner

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

— Neville Marriner

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

— Rod Stewart

We would say, OK, the B section isn't good enough, let's rewrite that,' until we felt the song was great.

— Tony Kanal

Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.

— Angel Olsen

I listen to all kinds of music and sometimes I try to do something that's referential to an era or a genre,…

— Phil Elverum

My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

— Yoko Ono

“It’s the only album I have where I can listen to every song with equal enjoyment.”

— Penelope Douglas

Dream Theater has never been a band that hit at a particular fashionable point and said, 'OK, that's basically it.'

— John Petrucci

“Lovehandles, the station where love is more than just a song. This is Peter 'Punch' O'Brien and Judy Bently. Punch and Judy…

— Holly Jacobs

I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta…

— Steve Earle

We're more about other things over odd timings: orchestration, composition, horn/vocal arrangements - that's where we get super weird.

— Synyster Gates

We're past the self-doubt. We just have fun with it and just try to make the best music that we can make.

— Tyler Joseph

I like my lyrics to feel conversational and truthful, as if we're having real talk. I don't really like generic lyrics.

— Meredith Brooks

“For all the way he loved her. Every song had her memory, every rain had her smell, and every girl had her…

— Akshay Vasu

“Life, she felt, was an instrument, and the trick was to find the tune you could play on it.”

— Owen Sheers

If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

— Danger Mouse

You can be more creative when you're not feeling like a slave. When you're on a record label, they have you like…

— Nate Dogg

Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.

— Lee Konitz

I love music, I've always done music, felt it on a spiritual level and I write for myself and not anybody else.

— Montaigne

I've been walking to school and trying to figure out what's going on there; some of the production and songs are so…

— Mike Tucker

You can say what you think music is, but the only way it really is, is how people experience it.

— Stone Gossard

I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

I like to think illegal downloads only do real damage to the endless amounts of careless pop music though.

— Ben Howard