Song Quotes · Page 171

You're living in a fantasy to think that music can actually change something.

— Ed Kowalczyk

I think the four men of the Beatles are an apt comparison for one Robin Lopez.

— Robin Lopez

Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.

— Victoria de los Angeles

To me, 'Auto Music' wasn't work. It was in-between work.

— Brian Reitzell

“I've always found D Minor to be the sad key.”

— Christopher Guest

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state

— Frank Zappa

Mission Mangal's' 'Yeh Sindoor' song gives me a patriotic feel.

— Tanishk Bagchi

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

— Katy Perry

For me, music is about expressing the inexpressible, and as I get older, man, what I feel the need to express becomes…

— Devin Townsend

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've tried to use my love of music, and spoken word performance to create companion pieces for the book.

— Rich Ferguson

Naturally, in a band or duo, it's really about compromise which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

— Curt Smith

Music is my time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.

— Eminem

I was 29 or 30 when I felt sure of what I was doing, but not fully identifying as a songwriter until I was 37.

— David Berman

We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.

— Lee Ranaldo

There's so much business that comes into play in the music industry, and honestly, it just got old to me.

— Sky Blu

My dad is in the music business in Nashville. I was the third child born in my family, and there are three…

— Chord Overstreet

The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

I was too shy to do any vocal lessons or go to choirs; I just didn't want to be seen doing it.…

— Alessia Cara

Right now there’s a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear. He…

— Andrea Gibson

Music fills peoples with life. It doesn't have to be a 'happy song.' If you have that one song that relates to…

— Kyle

I can imagine lyrics becoming better written by smart machines rather than stupid musicians. Songwriters generally have nothing to say. They may…

— Stephin Merritt

I've often said this - that you can get through a tragedy, and... you trudge on, but the pain never really goes…

— Lorrie Morgan

“Through my history's despite and ruin, I have come to its remainder, and here have made the beginning of a farm intended…

— Wendell Berry

Without love it is like having a good song without an audience.

— Fanny Brice

Watch out where the Huskies go And don't you eat that yellow snow

— Frank Zappa

Basically, when I like a song, I have to dance.

— Christine and the Queens

Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

“Just sing me your song. Teach me the words. Tell me what you know.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.

— Albie Sachs

I play piano and write better than I can sing.

— Irene Cara

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news,

— Marvin Hamlisch

I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere.

— Johnny Cash

You're my favorite song. Always on the tip of my tongue :)

— Unkown

From an early age I've written songs and played the piano.

— Ella Henderson

You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All of our lyrics are really personal, and we get a lot of personal letters.

— Benji Madden

I don't sing as well as I used to. Nor does anyone else in their 60s.

— Anne Murray

We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.

— Maynard James Keenan