Song Quotes · Page 143

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

— Benjamin Zander

Busking is the essence of what I do. It's made everything possible.

— Passenger

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.

— Richard F. Thomas

I don't got nobody writing my lyrics and that's why I freestyle.

— Riff Raff

The world doesn't need any more pretty good songs.

— Mary Gauthier

Garage music came up when people weren't paying attention.

— Estelle

We had no clue what heavy metal was. We were like: 'What's that?'

— Yui Mizuno

Every album we've done is tightly linked with our lives.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

— Billy Higgins

The first CD I ever bought was Gwen Stafani's first solo album. She was the light of my life when I was 8.

— Dove Cameron

Music is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

— Layne Staley

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

— Sting

I don't really focus on if what I'm writing is pop or not. I just write music and then I try to…

— Natalia Lafourcade

When I was a kid, I listened to the Doors and the Eagles and bands like the Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club,…

— Grace Potter

Music should be like making love. Sometimes you want it soft and tender, another time you want it hard and aggressive.

— Jeff Buckley

I enjoy my own songs, but I can never love them in the way that I can love someone else's song.

— Mark Lanegan

When I was a little kid and I heard a song I liked on TV, I would jump up and run to…

— Brendon Urie

I would be happy if I could meet some musicians interested in different acoustics and traditional music. Maybe I will find some…

— Albert Kuvezin

I'm really happy that people are starting to hear my band, and we are so happy to be conduits for all this…

— Carey Mercer

You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this…

— John Powell

I try not to listen to other music. I have to keep my mind open for what's coming in as a songwriter.…

— Mark Farner

With a lot of positive feedback, I can find myself getting lost in it a little bit and feeling like I'm trying…

— Noah Kahan

Most of the time I approach a track as series of experiments: seeing what fits, and trying to manipulate sounds into each…

— Bonobo

Since I didn't spend a great amount of time on writing the lyrics, some people would argue that they're too vague or…

— Jack Tatum

I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.

— Zach Condon

“For so long music has been my heart, but now it's you...you're my heart.”

— Cassandra Giovanni

There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.

— Jeff Lynne

Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.

— Fanny Crosby

Music is life. My love, my dream. Real talent is hard to find.

— Anonymous

My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.

— Gary Wright

I think the Beatles are a lot of people's favorite band.

— Miranda Cosgrove

You can't force music; It just has to come to you.

— Debby Ryan

I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.

— Chuck Mangione

Singing, to me, just feels really vulnerable.

— Mac Miller

There's a song", I say. "There's always a song", he says.

— Alaya Dawn Johnson

There isn't an audience in the world that Billie Joe can't command.

— Mike Dirnt

I wrote my first song when I was twelve on the piano.

— Rachael Yamagata

I don't do CDs. I only do radio. That's the truth.

— Michelle Visage

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

— Dolly Parton

“History tells creativity is a result of Soul song.”

— APORVAKALA