Song Quotes · Page 649

There's a lot of bands that blow up quickly, but then they die quickly. Longevity is the healthy thing; that's the pursuit.

— Mark Foster

The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their…

— George Crumb

Unfortunately it's easy to just label us as part of a Laurel Canyon sound. What we try to do is to be…

— Taylor Goldsmith

Music is made from the heart and the mind. It is every emotion a human being can convey.

— Travis Benton

I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a…

— Jean-Marc Vallee

We should invest in healthcare... We can and we should do all of this without succumbing to the siren song of big…

— Tate Reeves

I like big songs that feel quite upbeat, the songs that people love - me singing them, less so.

— Lou Sanders

“In-Between the strumming of the strings... a Life is Lived and Ends... Play your music well, It's All you have to Give”

— Dr. Marc

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or…

— Madonna Ciccone

“I am the blade that is swung by your hand, Slicing a rainbow's arc, I am the clapper, but you are the…

— Neal Shusterman

I always think that you should never, ever force a producer to do something with a song that they don't think they…

— Beth Hart

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing…

— Etta James

Ridley Pearson also plays bass guitar and sings with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of such successful authors as…

— Otto Penzler

I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked…

— Herbie Mann

The great Initiates in the spirit world have vast and imposing plans for the musical future. What is this plan? It is…

— John Todd

Punk rock was the first thing I found in my life that made me feel acceptable. The thing that got me into…

— John Porcellino

Normally I don't compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.

— Kate Bush

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all…

— Marilynne Robinson

My mother said that if I went off and joined the quartet, I would end up marrying a musician and living in…

— Marian McPartland

on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.

— Jean Genet

The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation.

— Norman Granz

“Why only one song, one speech, one text at a time?" - "When Our Lips Speak Together”

— Luce Irigaray

The man who talks to his wife about his dog instead of singing a love song is a wise man.

— Vikrant Parsai

I wrote the song 'I LOVE U, U LOVE ME' wishing to have the most fantastic show ever.

— Ok Taec-yeon

When you first start out, it's a big thing you're always like 'does my voice sound good?'

— Dean Lewis

My music is quite diverse, but it blends Grime, Hip-Hop, Old Skool and other urban genres together.

— Bugzy Malone

'Communication Breakdown' - it was punchy and direct, with a real attitude that was different to other bands going around.

— Jimmy Page

“Asking to hold a musician’s instrument is roughly similar to asking to kiss a man’s wife.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

Dear Music, thank you for being there when no one else was. But please, enough with the ballads for awhile.

— Anonymous

Selena recorded a song I had written and she left my parts in on the middle eight so it ended up being…

— Pixie Lott

The 'Aldous Harding' record isn't easily placed because it wasn't trying to sound like anything. It was quite organic.

— Aldous Harding

In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.

— Anonymous

If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.

— Nikki Sixx

Sometimes my lyrics may describe a situation that happened to a friend. Other times, I create a story from the ground up.

— Bridgit Mendler

I hope somebody does this to all my crap demos when I'm dead, making them into hit songs.

— George Harrison

The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.

— Thomas Beecham

When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.

— Linda Grant

I see myself as the ambassador of hip-hop. I do songs with people from everywhere. We ain't got nothing but love.

— Nate Dogg

For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop…

— Kevin Parker

I love doing concerts, and I think my songs get another expression and energy when they are being played live.

— Astrid S