Song Quotes · Page 183

The songs that give you the most trouble become your best songs.

— Matt Shultz

Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece.

— Camille Saint-Saens

If there's one thing I really love... it's sad music.

— Danny Elfman

If I ever write a love song. I think I will write about you.

— Mee

As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.

— Kendrick Lamar

Music is music whether it is for the stage, rostrum or cinema .

— Erich Wolfgang Korngold

I think you just have to have some rapport with the song.

— Eric Bachmann

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

Surf is that music which is entirely about evoking something. There's never any vocals, so it's not about the lyrics, it's about…

— Stephin Merritt

When I'm listening to music for pleasure, I'm gonna listen to someone else's music.

— Mark Lanegan

Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn…

— Robert Frost

If there is a possibility within a film to have a song in the music score that adds a little bit of…

— Lara Dutta

Creating the album 'VIBES' has been the biggest life lesson I have ever learned.

— Theophilus London

I enjoy albums, not a song here and there. The recordings I like have been a soundtrack to a universe.

— Little Simz

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've…

— Perfume Genius

I wanted to emulate music from America - young punks playing rock n' roll is what it was. I read part of…

— Jimmy Page

I write these songs and I like the idea of letting the band interpret it as they will. This band is like…

— Taylor Goldsmith

I can never tell what's going to end up being on an album until it's all finished. I'm reading the news everyday,…

— Jack Johnson

The voice muscle doesn't last forever. I have a lot of friends who are classical and opera singers. My friend Beverly Sills…

— Johnny Mathis

“Performing music is the job that has the most to do with the belief in the existence of a soul. I deal…

— Christian Tetzlaff

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday…

— Ethan Coen

I never get enough of the adrenaline rush of hearing good music played live and played loud like this. Hearing these songs…

— David Moody

Music can be all things to all men. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system…

— Leopold Stokowski

I like to start by wiggling my fingers on top of guitar strings.

— Zacky Vengeance

I didnt really have an agenda for my talent. I just wanted to be able to sing.

— Brenda Lee

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

— Jackson Browne

I'm a musical person, and that's what I want my life to be about.

— Lesley Gore

Every time you fight the scars are gonna heal But they're never gonna go away.

— Simple Plan

The whole truth... sings only -and all lovers are the song

— e. e. cummings

Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.

— Tom Waits

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

— Henry Rollins

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

— Paulo Coelho

I was always that girl who loved music and thought of music as an escape route.

— Rita Ora

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

— Anais Nin

Another song with no singers, lyrics... no voices. Unseen performances...

— Jo

I played the piano growing up and then stopped for 10 or 12 years.

— Timothee Chalamet

My favorite song is 'Cybele's Reverie' by Stereolab.

— Fred Armisen

“Music is the music of all music, and I am jealous.”

— John Sladek

At times, I fit into lyrics more then I fit into life.

— James Merrow