Song Quotes · Page 73

Music is our myth of the inner life.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Some songs just resonate with you.

— Jessie Buckley

I do like to sing to God!

— Jenny Lind

Song is the heroics of speech.

— Thomas Carlyle

Start off each day with a song

— Jimmy Durante

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

— Alistair Cooke

Music should never be harmless.

— Robbie Robertson

I use my voice as an instrument.

— Enya

I'm just expanding my sound and making it bigger.

— Mike Will Made It

I write songs based on things I see in the culture around me.

— Mark Foster

Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

— Aldous Huxley

I'd like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I'm serious. That would be my dream.

— Anthony Bourdain

Nobody really fights to backstage to see us; were just the opening band.

— Gym Class Heroes

Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.

— Mother Teresa

Even from the darkest night songs of beauty can be born.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

he signed his work .. you could always tell when it was Herb Ellis playing

— Barney Kessel

Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.

— William Wordsworth

When I first started to sing, people automatically asked what Barbi Benton was doing behind a microphone, and I'm determined to show…

— Barbi Benton

Though the inspiration for my songs almost always comes from things that are happening around me, I am definitely not always the…

— Thalia Zedek

'Fix' was a song that definitely put me on the map and changed everything for in me my career. I'm really thankful…

— Chris Lane

I try to listen to stuff that makes me happy for other reasons, rather than being musically inspiring.

— Anna Meredith

“Together me and Amy are Jaramy. Pearl Jam wrote a song about us speaking in class.”

— Jarod Kintz

I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it.

— Sarah McLachlan

There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.

— Scott McClanahan

I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production…

— Jay Reatard

My grandmother was a classical pianist, so I grew up with Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven. I studied piano as a kid. My musical…

— Phillipa Soo

“If Shirley were not an indolent, a reckless, an ignorant being, she would take a pen at such moments, or at least…

— Charlotte Brontë

Everybody used to be busy writing songs - great songs - that became hits. Now everybody's writing hits. Everybody's desperately writing a…

— Nuno Bettencourt

We have this song called 'Radio,' and I wrote that song when we needed one more song for a record. So I…

— Matt Skiba

There's a bit less elbow room and latitude to take it somewhere else, at least at festivals. In the club you can…

— A-Trak

I wish I could sing. I don't technically have a terrible voice, but it's certainly not as good as most of my…

— Moby

Let the church come to God in the strength of a perfect weakness, in the power of a felt helplessness and a…

— Mark Hopkins

My work is more to me than just music.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I just play drums, mate.

— Phil Rudd

All my music sounds the same to me.

— J. J. Cale

Phil is a real drummer's drummer.

— Colin Greenwood

Van Halen is a work in progress.

— Alex Van Halen

Melody is the essence of music.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A song is a meaningful thing.

— Doug Walters

Music should be pushed forward.

— Trombone Shorty