Song Quotes · Page 717

My mom and dad sang in the church choir. They also had a local group. They loved music, especially my dad.

— Gladys Knight

Music is a weapon of the future / music is the weapon of the progressives / music is the weapon of the…

— Fela Kuti

My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it.

— Tyra Banks

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

— Joe Hill

Inspiration comes from everywhere. Obviously, my lyrics are what I most care about in the moment and what I feel like I…

— Sophie Hawley-Weld

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

— Robyn Hitchcock

I'm definitely still putting effort into my lyrics, for them to be emotional and tell a story.

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

I studied violin since I was a boy, and my dream was to be a violinist and to play.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound…

— Mike Harding

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same…

— Nat King Cole

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of…

— Mel Tillis

I've been in bands since I was about fifteen, so there are probably quite a lot of terrible teenage songs kicking about…

— Lauren Mayberry

The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur.…

— Kenny Smith

What do you mean, 'playing really creatively'? Can you give me an example?" "Hmm, let's see ... you send the music deep…

— Haruki Murakami

When I listen to Airplanes record, it takes me back. I remember a lot of my thought processes when I was 20…

— Ben Gibbard

I only wrote one song in jail. But I'm writing new album - you're going to feel the entire 11 months of…

— Tupac Shakur

There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.

— Ruth Brown

I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.

— John Darnielle

If you're living a nice lifestyle and you have no problems, you put on our record, you won't get it.

— Jeff Hanneman

When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.

— Dan Hill

When it comes to my songs I'm confident. Back in 1967, I would go to a publisher's office, and tell them they…

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.

— Paul Verlaine

Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Lennon and McCartney have the best catalogue of songs ever produced. It will never be surpassed.

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.

— Becky G

There is something in the spirit of song...that fires the soul in a way that it can't otherwise be touched or fired.

— Charles W. Nibley

I didn't know what kind of sound I wanted to make. I didn't have no influences. I just heard my voice in…

— Blueface

What's important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It's very reflective of my ideology.

— Mitski

I loved singing something like 'I've Got My Eye On You' when it's really about the FBI. It turns a love song…

— Dianne Reeves

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all…

— Frederic Chopin

“Past relationships are nothing more than a collection of songs you can no longer listen to.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Music sets up ladders, it makes us invisible, it sets us apart, it lets us escape; but from the visible there is…

— Hilda Doolittle

To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.

— Jason Mraz

Playing with Iggy pulled me back in for a while and reminded me of what I love about music.

— Duff McKagan

A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.

— Yuna

“I want to be your song, Laurelyn." I move up her leg and kiss the inside of her thigh. "Always.”

— Georgia Cates

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

— Ernest Newman

Every time I lay down and jamm to those songs I used to hear when I was with you..i swear it brings…

— L P J

I like to call it 'album making' because everybody hears the word scrapbooking and thinks, 'All the glue and the glitter -…

— Nancy O'Dell

A lot of people don't know about music, but buy records. A lot of people that know about music can't afford to…

— Marc Bolan