Song Quotes · Page 138

When you write for an orchestra, the sky's the limit.

— Michael Giacchino

Tchaikovsky was one of the great melody writers of all time.

— James Newton Howard

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

— Annie Lennox

I like to think of myself as a musical scavenger.

— Bryce Dessner

If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.

— Joan Baez

Rock and roll is about having a good time.

— Andy Biersack

My goal is to write catchy songs that make people feel something.

— Sigrid

I grew up listening to a lot of Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, Devo, all that stuff.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

We want to be an important band to people for the right reasons. It's always been a goal.

— Luke Hemmings

All I ever wanted to do, personally, was bring something new to what I loved: the thing that I loved the most,…

— El-P

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself,…

— Johnny Cash

I don't want to try to do music or satisfy anyone else's ears; it has to come from here first and what…

— Tweet

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to…

— Tom Morello

Doing a remake of an iconic song is always nerve-racking because you never know if you can actually do justice to it.

— Nora Fatehi

I am struck by the wild character of this land and, as the Kazak herders often do, I have the urge to…

— Tim Cope

I held in being sexually attracted to women for so long that once I got that out of me, the music became…

— Young M.A

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie. The…

— Trisha Yearwood

Three Songs 1 Mountain. I whip my quick horse and don't dismount and look back in wonder. The sky is three feet…

— Mao Zedong

“Sienna's Pick for Best Pink Floyd Combined Song and Album Title Ever: "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a…

— Sienna McQuillen

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of…

— Oliver Sacks

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to…

— Dick Smothers

In my culture we had songs for everything, and that's lost now. There were songs for when people were born, when they…

— Einar Selvik

Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... music is…

— Leopold Stokowski

In jazz improv, there is no such thing as wrong notes, only notes that are better chosen and it's not about the…

— Larry Carlton

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

— Johnny Winter

“J.S. Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.”

— Roger Fry

I can't sing very well but I'd like to try.

— Elvis Presley

If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.

— Lawrence Welk

Everyone be quiet! I'm trying to shazam this song...

— Nicky Hilton

Music isn't about music, it's about life.

— Herbie Hancock

I didn't really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s.

— Anthony Kiedis

Music is admitted under the skin without permission.

— Jon Foreman

Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.

— Ferruccio Busoni

I'm putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.

— Kendrick Lamar

I may be preaching to the choir, but the choir needs a good song.

— Michael Moore

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

— Billie Holiday

My voice is not so much 'bel canto' as 'can belto'.

— Harry Secombe

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

— Morton Feldman

I've read that I'm ruining music. It makes me kind of laugh.

— Dr. Luke

Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.

— Andre Rieu