Song Quotes · Page 119

“Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All musicians are potential band leaders.

— Thelonious Monk

I just want to make music that people hear, and I'm not ashamed of that.

— Justin Tranter

A song about our love will never see the light of day.

— Big Sean

The more music I do, the more I want to do.

— Jonita Gandhi

Music is what I care about. Not material things.

— Louis Walsh

It is love that heals and music is the one thing that speaks to all our souls.

— Liz Mitchell

What would the world be like without men and music?

— Margaret Warde

In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you…

— David Amram

“You had to write it, and he had to play it, and I'm just so grateful I got to see it.”

— Jess Walter

I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.

— Lady Gaga

I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most…

— Yo-Yo Ma

I consider music to be a service and I am trying to serve the music, the musicians and the audience the best…

— Jeff Coffin

I've always been a songwriter, whether it's singing or playing with a band or doing DJ sets, they're all different ways to…

— Matthew Koma

I enjoy the music I make because I have to - if I didn't, I wouldn't want to make it, and I…

— Jack Garratt

Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.

— William Congreve

I don't think we care anymore about what we're gonna do. We're just gonna be our own band and we're not gonna…

— Patrick Stump

My mother made me take piano lessons, and because I am her oldest and she had not yet been worn down by…

— Sheri L. Dew

The lesson there is that there's no hiding the sound of a band that is bored with its own music. Whatever it…

— Steve Berlin

The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm…

— Jon Crosby

Records that were the sound of somebody - more often than not, a she - speaking with a voice that had never…

— Greil Marcus

The girl that introduced The Smiths' song 'Asleep' to me was an important musical influence that I met in college. From there…

— Stephen Chbosky

The thing I realised about composition is, we remember most composers for four bars of music. Four singable bars of music. Pretty…

— Bryce Dessner

So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it…

— Andy Wilkinson

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.

— Mark Hoppus

Putting in headphones and lip syncing like you wrote the damn song.

— Anonymous

Every band goes through breakups or splits.

— Mike Portnoy

Love the music in yourself, not yourself in the music.

— Jon Peter Lewis

You don't have to be singing songs about angst and pain to be credible.

— Tony Kanal

I'll write whenever I can and I'll use whatever instrument is around.

— Melody Gardot

I play piano very badly. That's my great regret.

— Marcello Giordani

“When Blue sang, a lyric became a libation; a song became a sacrament.”

— Pearl Cleage

Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are.

— Paul Robeson

I can't sing that well, but when punk-rock came along, it changed all that.

— Jim Carroll

I don't like to collect music. I don't want it if only I liked it.

— Seungri

I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up

— Barry Gibb

I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.

— Terry Gross

Being a singer, it's feast or famine. You have to hit it when it's hot.

— Gregory Porter

With our first record, we wrote concept songs but not a concept record.

— Frank Iero

Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.

— Florence Foster Jenkins