Song Quotes · Page 216

“Songs are built by whimsy, faulty memory, and free association.”

— Sting

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

— Van Morrison

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

We had always put ballads on all of our albums.

— John Rzeznik

The songs become the show, which is how it should be.

— Kristin Hersh

We've made music to boost people up, make people happy and to inspire them.

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

There is the music that we make, and the music that makes us.

— Rich Mullins

I think my music is more personal than most of the music I'm hearing.

— Dave East

I just can't sit down and write three verses and a chorus and a bridge anymore. It just don't find it inspiring.

— Sturgill Simpson

My idea is that artists should make their music available for free, and fans should only pay for it if they really…

— Kim Dotcom

I think my music tastes keep changing, so I think the music I make changes a little bit.

— Eric Hutchinson

As Juan Gabriel, music is my religion, and mariachi is my devotion. And my songs are my prayers.

— Juan Gabriel

From my early training days, I am an avid listener of heavy music which is laced with proper diction and effective use…

— Javed Ali

I don't really work on songs when we're touring because there's just too much other stuff going on.

— Taylor Goldsmith

And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it.…

— Taylor Swift

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

— Madame de Stael

He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production…

— Deborah Cox

That's sort of what I try to do with music: to harness whatever energy is already there and see where that momentum…

— Pharrell Williams

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of…

— Greg Ginn

I feel like the albums I grew up listening to - for example, Eminem, Lauryn Hill, Christina Aguilera - they all spoke…

— Anne-Marie

Every place has its own punk flavor, but they all borrowed ideas from SoCal. It's still a vibrant scene creeping into every…

— Greg Graffin

I'm just old enough to be able to say I got those very first Beatles records right as they were hitting America.…

— Lee Ranaldo

There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul…

— Jackie DeShannon

Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with…

— Nina Simone

I make music, and if people like it, they like it, and some people won't.

— Katy B

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

— George Harrison

I usually do about five drafts per rhyme for each song.

— Gza

A song isn't finished until it's played live, and then it moves on.

— Paul Rodgers

Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.

— Robert W. Service

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

— Chico Hamilton

“I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger.”

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

Together, we make incredible music with just the right beat.

— Kemis Khan

If all the media are singing one song, it gets dangerous; it really does.

— Margarita Simonyan

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

— Jimi Hendrix

Being in a band, whether your female or male, is really hard.

— Charlotte Caffey

I always just made music that resonates with me emotionally.

— Moby

Them boys will steal your radio and the music will still be playing! -Si

— Duck Dynasty

A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

— Al Yankovic

I love the blues, but I love a lot of music.

— Anand Mahindra

You can cage the singer but not the song.

— Harry Belafonte