Song Quotes · Page 103

Today's imaginary band name: The Significan't.

— Janina Gavankar

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.

— Gioachino Rossini

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

— Juliana Hatfield

I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.

— Henry Rollins

Music keeps my life pumping It saved my life

— Jenny Pabualan

“Music is one way many experience the light”

— Lee Vickers

Music is my God, and it is the only love that has never left me.

— Ville Valo

I'm really good at writing 'almost hits'.

— Ben Folds

No created powers can mar our Lord Jesus' music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice…

— Samuel Rutherford

I love exploring the hypnotic elements of music, and because of that there are very long tracks on 'Immunity.'

— Jon Hopkins

I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that…

— Zooey Deschanel

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else

— Sarah McLachlan

I was writing songs from when I was 12. My songs always came from questions that I need answers for.

— Curtis Mayfield

It's kind of always been a secret fantasy of mine, the idea of writing a song and then not having to be…

— Kevin Parker

One overlooked great 1980s rock n' roll band, maybe punk rock - they were on SST Records, same label as Black Flag…

— Beto O'Rourke

I started off playing the harmonium and singing. By the time I was eight or so, my interest moved to Western instrumental…

— Vidyasagar

There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally…

— John Philip Sousa

Honestly, I could sing you a song But I don't think words can express your beauty It's singing to me How the…

— Patience

Sometimes I'll write a song first and then I'm like, "Oh this person will be great on this song." But there are…

— Robert Glasper

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that…

— Wes Borland

Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm…

— Jim Jarmusch

Music is completely not reality. There's nothing about music that has any meaning at all. A lot of people disagree with that,…

— Michael Bacon

I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment. I also…

— David Gilmour

Study Bach. There you will find everything.

— Johannes Brahms

I love singing. I can't say it sounds good; it's just something I like doing.

— Tori Bowie

What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together.

— Elton John

I just want to share trendy music with my fans.

— Hyuna

A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.

— Robin Trower

I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.

— Sam Phillips

I'm very lucky my parents were into different kinds of music.

— Devendra Banhart

I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies.

— Mike Stoller

Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.

— Michael Moriarty

What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?

— Duke Ellington

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

— Billie Holiday

We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man.

— Stephen Baxter

When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song.

— Imelda May

I wonder if I could make an electric bass.

— Leo Fender

It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.

— Paul McCartney

The songs from 'Sri Raghavendrar' got me spiritually inclined.

— Raghava Lawrence