Song Quotes · Page 661

From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Occasionally, you get a nice surprise when someone covers your song in an extraordinary way.

— John Barry

When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.

— Robert Crumb

“(In reply to: Which is more important, the sound or the music?) 'Both equal, some people don't care about words but for…

— Steven Battelle

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

— Yo-Yo Ma

I feel like it is only music where people are like, "You can't do this for other people, you have to do…

— Thomston

But anyway I think you're bionic And I don't think you're beautiful, I think you're beyond it

— Lil Wayne

I think the music I listen to is always therapeutic. It allows me to get my mind to another place and just…

— Jalen Hurts

It changes over the course of life, depending on how you're feeling. There's this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends…

— Bill Walton

There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws…

— Adrian Rogers

Cause I'm carryin' your love with me From West Virginia down to Tennessee I'll be movin' with the good lord speed, carryin'…

— George Strait

Entertainers are nothing special. Maybe we have a talent for singing a song, but other people have talents. I wish fans would…

— Eddy Arnold

We started out with a lot of bands in the same generation as ours, and there are very few left. Mainly, I…

— Sune Rose Wagner

There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after…

— Edward Weston

Phillip is a repository of random snatches of film dialogue and song lyrics. To make room for all of it in his…

— Jonathan Tropper

You're letting such a fragile side of yourself out when you're creating or writing music. To do that with people who are…

— Alex Kapranos

It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for…

— Thurston Moore

I don't pamper my voice. It's part of my body. If my body is rested and healthy, my voice is rested and…

— Neil Diamond

For each album, I let the music that I love at that point in my life be my guide.

— Miranda Lambert

Listen closely to the songs I play, because the lyrics speak the words I fail to say.

— Anonymous

We knew we were tight and good, but we didn't know we were going to be the band to help each generation…

— John Densmore

I really connect with music that has a point, that's not just a heavy riff and cool sounds. I always like it…

— Piggy D

The reality is not exactly what the song started out to be, but it's not a bad song.

— Robert James Waller

I sort of disbanded the DC5 in 1970. I decided to call it a day when we were still selling records.

— Dave Clark

She like a beat that makes me wanna grab the mic. She like the lyrics that I wanna recite.

— Will I Am

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

— Anonymous

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

— Nile Rodgers

Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

— John Kao

Sound is the basis vibration of the universe All those little vortices may get sent going the other way. Sound is really…

— Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who…

— Chris Cornell

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

— Dizzy Gillespie

Fill my heart with song, let me sing for ever more, you are all I long for, all I worship and adore

— Frank Sinatra

Sometimes, we've made songs where we're angry and yelling, and then there are some songs where we're just having fun and dancing…

— Tucker Halpern

Getting to see the impact of the music that I write and people having moments with their friends is cool.

— Maisie Peters

“But even a wonderful soloist needs a song. Even a pitch-perfect voice needs a message.”

— David Pietrusza

I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.

— David Alan Grier

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that…

— Taylor Swift

“Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe.”

— Don Campbell

I could never teach a class on songwriting. I'd tell them to goof off and find a good hideout.

— John Prine

I either write songs on guitar, or... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop.

— Jay Watson