Song Quotes · Page 791

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because…

— David Guetta

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.

— Michael Stipe

“Music is undescribable, and no words can be said to understand it. The only way to understand it is to hear it.”

— Allyson McClain

The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice…

— Black Elk

Sometimes it takes a tragedy to bring people together, Other times it just takes music.

— Pink

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or…

— Sinead O'Connor

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.

— Perry Farrell

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes…

— Mick Jagger

One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mixed, you need…

— Carmen Ejogo

I am still working on developing my voice. I am, I know, better as a coloratura singer than I was. It's a…

— Anna Netrebko

I have this rule: It's like, if you write an amazing, cool song that you mean and then you go put your…

— John Rzeznik

I never thought I would sing professionally, but it so happened that I made Babul hear a Bengali song I had sung…

— Hema Malini

I don't kind of want to be known as a one-trick pony who just does the adult-alternative song once a year that…

— Ed Sheeran

Christianity only hopes. It has hung its harp on the willows, and cannot sing a song in a strange land. It has…

— Henry David Thoreau

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the…

— Billy Joel

I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where…

— Nina Simone

I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really…

— Mike Shinoda

There are two kinds of music: good music and bad music. Both are and will continue to co-exist.

— Shankar Mahadevan

I will say this: I've always sort of had maybe an inflated sense of my ability to sequence songs in a narrative…

— Rodney Crowell

Its funny how we remember lyrics to like so many songs, but can't remember to study for a test. that's me!

— Anonymous

That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it's a happy song and I can still feel sad in…

— Shane McAnally

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

— Aldo Leopold

Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness.

— Sri Chinmoy

I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in…

— Dick Dale

I'd like to do an anthology. Maybe a collection of songs set in my world, or based on my world. I think…

— Patrick Rothfuss

What I liked about grunge was the realness. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't glamorous.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

— Dar Williams

It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus.

— Paul Weller

“For songs are the heart of our memory and they let us live the search for meaning in our lives again and…

— Judy Collins

I think when you look back at the different eras in jazz, what leads from one to another is never a melodic…

— Stefon Harris

They're very different things, a poem and a song, you wouldn't think they would be, but they are.

— John Cooper Clarke

To be able to do a song with Kanye West and then a video with Hype Williams who directed the video, that's…

— Paul Wall

…the songs are universal enough that in ten years time they should still hold up quite well.

— Greg Graffin

I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

— Lupe Fiasco

I feel like all my songs slept-on. I'm not complainin', but I just wanna drop more heat.

— Lil Tjay

I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

— Bobby Sherman

Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye.

— Wynton Marsalis

Life is so mundane, isn't it? It's great to hear a guitarist getting into it and the rhythmic section blasting, even if…

— Paul Rodgers

Music is an extraordinary locksmith; it is so competent that it can open our soul's door even with closed eyes!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Song Joong-ki was always considerate of his fellow actors and staff members, and Jeon Yeo-been always brought her own energy and charm…

— Ok Taec-yeon