Song Quotes · Page 186

Songs are easy to remember because they have rhythm and music.

— Asha Bhosle

A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

— Ernest Newman

I like Telecasters because they are so versatile.

— Julien Baker

I grew up in the backyard of music from all angles.

— Quincy Brown

Has the industry done to music what McDonald’s has done to eating?

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

My musicians know all of my music, and so that makes for something different.

— Dianne Reeves

If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song

— Oscar Isaac

I like music, a lot of different types of music.

— Raymond Kelly

No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts…

— William Osler

I missed being onstage behind the microphone. After a while, it was hard to hear another voice singing my lyrics.

— Maren Morris

In the West we are constantly hit with music of Middle Eastern descent signifying terror, intrigue or sorrow.

— Rostam Batmanglij

I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

— Robert Wyatt

I don't think there's anything wrong with singing a song and having fun with it.

— Joe Nichols

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes…

— Whitney Houston

Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that…

— Alfred Austin

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is…

— Alison Krauss

I like the jarring thing, both in the music and the lyrics. That's why a lot of times our songs have a…

— Ron Mael

I wanted to focus on songs that I was inspired by growing up. I love so many of them from the last…

— Josh Groban

We were never the cool band to like. They tried to put us into a hair-metal thing, but we weren't really Warrant…

— Nuno Bettencourt

“Rhythm is a conception, not a physical reality. It is true that, to be realized in music, rhythm must be marked by…

— Henry Cowell

There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing…

— Nick Cave

I feel like a lot of people in the hip hop world don't take me seriously as a rapper, and I feel…

— Travie McCoy

I got hit up for a tampon commercial and so I asked [JD and Jo] if they had anything. Jo sent that…

— Kathleen Hanna

The second song is called 'Easy As Life,' which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being…

— Deborah Cox

There's a ton of amazing music that's not getting heard.

— A-Trak

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

— Gabriel Marcel

Music is a very spiritual and emotional force.

— Susan Tedeschi

Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.

— Nat Hentoff

Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

— Billy Idol

I'm not making music for old people or young people.

— Stromae

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

— Joseph Addison

My mother and dad loved music, were very much into music.

— Jim Foglesong

It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.

— Sara Teasdale

But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

— Walton Goggins

I love making music. It's just something that I can't stop doing.

— Fetty Wap

I've been singing most of my life in choirs and musicals.

— Noah Reid

It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.

— Neil Young

I don't like when songs are distinctly happy or sad.

— Alex G

I started singing when I started talking.

— Mariah Carey