Song Quotes · Page 767

Thelma and I are excited to work with UMSL around our shared passion for jazz and education and make this initial investment…

— David Steward

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the…

— Johann Sebastian Bach

I've always really been a big fan of rock music. I wanted to record rock music when I was 14 or 15,…

— Tiffany Darwish

Music seems to hold everything together. It seems to make things not so chaotic sometimes. It seems to make things make more…

— Tyler Joseph

I loved musicals because I felt like breaking out in song makes so much sense to me because it's the stakes of…

— Betty Gilpin

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

— Tommy Bolin

I spent my whole musical career trying to be different and make songs that people think shouldn't go together... go together.

— Ronnie Radke

“I’m an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything. Maybe I should stop writing songs and start writing fiction.”

— Elizabeth Eulberg

Music has always been a huge part of my life from a very young age, and today it remains a very powerful…

— Thalia

I used to carry my dad's empty guitar case around the neighborhood because I wanted people to think I played the guitar.…

— Kristen Wiig

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties…

— Gerry Mulligan

We got the bubble headed bleached blonde comes on at five, She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam…

— Don Henley

There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing…

— Moby

Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me And all the words I ever said have been…

— Al Stewart

You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are…

— Macklemore

I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when…

— David Byrne

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band…

— Thom Yorke

I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.

— Aurora Aksnes

For me, music is God and each song I make is an offering at the temple of music.

— M. Jayachandran

Jis Din Tum' is such a beautiful song to hear. When I came to know that we were going to shoot it…

— Vatsal Sheth

“Life is like Piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black keys show sadness ...”

— Ehssan

What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.

— Camille Saint-Saens

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

— Miles Davis

These days, you're always surrounded by music and sounds, whether you're in the mall or a subway car.

— Ludwig Goransson

I can't sing, like, I can't saaang. I'm no Luther! That to me is singing. Being able to hit a note doesn't…

— Michael Ealy

All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about…

— Sarah Silverman

I probably listen to more instrumental music than music with lyrics, but at the same time I do love both.

— Flume

If you've got a verse with a lot of rhythm, you want to pair it with something that doesn't.

— Max Martin

“sing all the same, the voice doesn't matter, its the reason behind the singing that does”

— Ohadugha Golden O

It makes me feel great, knowing my songs are being heard and of service to people.

— Jason Mraz

I've always sang a little like a 16-year-old girl, but even Ann-Margret stopped after a while and brought it down a bit.

— Leslie Jordan

To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

— Reba McEntire

Faith without works is like a song you can't sing. It's about as useless as a screen door on a submarine.

— Rich Mullins

With songs one invents a world that wouldn't exist otherwise. And in that world you can be more than you actually are.

— Sophie Hunger

Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Music inspires me, and I'm grateful that I've been able to make a career out of something that I'm so connected to.

— Chinmayi

Sometimes, I feel like my lyrics meander a little bit, and our songs are so big I need to write more words…

— M. Shadows

It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.

— Martin Gore

Philosophical enlightenment, musical composition, writing and scientific observation keep me sane. - Johnny Luckett

— Johnny Luckett

I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello.

— Mark Foster