Song Quotes · Page 208

Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.

— Euripides

Nobody has one band anymore. They've got two and three and four!

— Martie Maguire

The only thing major labels can really offer is money.

— Conor Oberst

These are my people, this is my song, dirty street, where I belong.

— Anonymous

Every song that I compose has to satisfy the music director in me.

— Gopi Sundar

I love interpreting other people's music.

— Katey Sagal

Lyrics over some nice beats - that's what the people want from us.

— Ghostface Killah

Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart

— Thomas Kinkade

There is something magical about being able to feel somebody. And that is something that has always moved me with music.

— Maria Brink

I'm definitely a singer-songwriter. I'm somewhere in the vein between Elliott Smith and Jack Johnson.

— Bryan Greenberg

My dad did a wonderful feat of memory and storytelling by taking T S Eliot's 'Four Quartets' on the road in a…

— Freddie Fox

There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.

— Angel Haze

I had funny memories, too, but the music was more important to me than anything else.

— Lita Ford

You wait all your life to be signed by a major label, and then when they sign you, they don't want you…

— Allan Holdsworth

It's about important things such as having faith, pursuing your dreams and goals. My music is about drive.

— R-Truth

When I am excited about a song I want to release it rather than wait to build up an album.

— Jackson Harris

I'm not stupid, I realise selling it is not as important as it used to be that way, I think it's more…

— Butch Walker

I have enough rhythm to blend at this point. I have enough rhythm to blend one song into another. But man, I…

— Talib Kweli

I've been trying to sing for a long time. I didn't realize that's what I wanted to do until I was about…

— Trevor Jackson

I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My…

— David Gilmour

Our band Stereophonics never wanted to release a couple records and be the biggest band in the world for 10 minutes. We…

— Kelly Jones

Hendrix was the bass player for Little Richard. We were both left-handed, but we would use a right-handed guitar held upside down…

— Dick Dale

'She's a Mystery to Me' was released in 1987, when I was 11 or something, and I absolutely adored the song. This…

— Cillian Murphy

“The lesson for this Round, as we shall hear time and again, is that each generation inhabits a different acoustic universe, constituted…

— Hillel Schwartz

“a wise man could earn more from silence than from song.”

— George R.R. Martin

'Crazy Story,' biggest song for sure. Everybody love 'Crazy Story.'

— King Von

When you listen to music, you can tell if it's a real love song or not.

— Borns

My music has always been important regardless of other projects.

— Mya

Rather than becoming the best, I want to become a singer with meaning.

— Taeyang

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

— Henry Rollins

Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.

— Zubin Mehta

My music isn't just music, it's medicine.

— Kanye West

I can't force myself to make up a song. Music comes to me naturally.

— Atif Aslam

I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.

— Carly Rae Jepsen

For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.

— Donatella Versace

“Sometimes, you just need a badass theme song to get you through the day.”

— Ilsa Madden-Mills

Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.

— Philip James Bailey

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

— Banks

I have always been into music. That's my number one passion.

— Audrina Patridge

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.

— Jan Hammer