Music Quotes · Page 516

One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

— Billy Eckstine

I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.

— Alex Scally

Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.

— Robin Williams

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

— Berthold Auerbach

No one has to give you permission to make music or make art.

— Jared Leto

“Every situation, every person has a melody playing, even if you can’t hear it.”

— Nina Schuyler

I want to release music that I like and feel comfortable with.

— Tulisa

“I got in and started the engine, also turning on the radio. When the music began I wished that there might be…

— Saul Bellow

Both my fathers are unconventional. They are like unicorns or wizards. They are musicians through and through. The way they think is…

— Liv Tyler

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound…

— Joseph Jarman

“[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers [novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with…

— Jess C Scott

It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears!…

— William Shakespeare

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.

— Enya

I just like heavy music in general - from heavy rock and heavy metal and heavy rap and heavy everything. I've always…

— El-P

It really has lifted my spirits. It's intensified my faith, given me more hope. That's what music does for me.

— Reba McEntire

I have a real soft spot for flying saucer songs and Frenkenstein songs. When I was a kid the first record I…

— Tom Verlaine

“Just as music is a natural way to empathy, music can also be a way to open you to compassion. Have you…

— Will Jelbert

“The sound of the wind stretches its limbs. The jazz music witholds some of its ruckus. Hands move something in the dark.…

— Ashur Etwebi

After 'Mosaic,' I think a lot of people didn't know what my next record was going to be. And that's what I…

— Ricky Skaggs

If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen…

— Alan Cumming

I started rapping because my mom died when I was about 11 years old, and I was a very rebellious kid. I've…

— Tory Lanez

“We have seen year after year the passion you have for music, and the way you have always been incredibly passionate fans,…

— Hanson

I'm a huge fan of The Chemical Brothers and the Ninja Tune label and a lot of the stuff that they put…

— KT Tunstall

I think for music, it's global. You have a song, it sounds good, everybody likes it.

— Henry Lau

“You make me want to play music until I fall asleep, and then wake up and play some more.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

— Chris Barber

If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .

— Nick Drake

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

— Bo Burnham

My kind of retro-sounding songs, or whatever you want to call them, aren't for everybody.

— Natalie Prass

I've never been in this business to make money. I've always been in it to make good music.

— Peter Frampton

I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.

— Birdy

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

— Bill Haley

(For songwriters) Development of your facility as a musician is also important.

— Ryan Cayabyab

In music you don't punch out at the end of the day.

— Fab Moretti

I'm glad I've been offered songs from various genres, but I love singing melodies the most.

— Neeti Mohan

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I knew my limitations even when I was a music director.

— Vijay Antony

I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine.

— John Mayall

Listen to music you don't even like and see why you don't like it.

— Phil Woods