Song Quotes · Page 238

I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I started in a covers band with my brothers when I was just four years old.

— Sara Evans

A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.

— Rod Stewart

My theme song is always: 'Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them.'

— Anne Sweeney

Summertime And the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.

— Ira Gershwin

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

— Pablo Picasso

Music is the most spiritual language for the human being.

— Celedonio Romero

I like to think of music as an emotional science.

— George Gershwin

“I never talk during music, at least during good music. If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it…

— Oscar Wilde

I often think it's unfair to the listener and "too easy" to just choose one tempo while I make and decide the…

— Gylve Nagell

Everybody [in The Beatles ] was singing at the same time and the harmonies were great.

— Lemmy Kilmister

“Her name was a silent song on his lips. Her love was like a circle in the water, radiating ever outward, inevitably…

— Susan Wiggs

All the music we know that's popular is actually commonly shared music that takes things that are similar about all of us.

— Tod Machover

Live music is the most primal form of energy release you can share with other people besides having sex or taking drugs.

— Kurt Cobain

We grew up with a different gauge on what pop is. Pop for us was INXS and John Farnham.

— Jessica Origliasso

My voice adapts itself to the music. I can do a lot more than you hear in Portishead.

— Beth Gibbons

“As he sat by the radio, J.R. was fascinated to see how Roy listened to the country singers with the same devotion…

— Robert Hilburn

You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us…

— Page McConnell

Well, after Zombie Birdhouse came out, I toured behind it in the fall of 1982, into the spring, and in the summer…

— Iggy Pop

Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open…

— Henry Rollins

Baller Alert' is based on my lifestyle. As I talk about in the song, I've done a lot of dirt and worked…

— Young Dolph

I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm…

— Mayer Hawthorne

I think I just speak on what the regular people are going through outside of love 'cause, of course, there's always gonna…

— PJ Harvey

'Correct' is a song and an exercise for me where I've been able to reclaim who I am and the good that…

— MNEK

When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.

— Rick Danko

I have pit bulls barking at me on half of the love songs.

— Matt Berninger

Sometimes I stumble upon a wonderfully irresistible to me voice, unexpectedly.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

— Moon Unit Zappa

My songs are a time stamp for a lot of people's lives.

— Craig David

One of the great regrets of my life is that I don't play piano.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Sublime is one of my favorite bands; I've been listening to them my whole life.

— Loren Gray

The piano is not really in the language of the 'Game of Thrones' score.

— Ramin Djawadi

In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.

— Gustav Mahler

A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.

— Rokia Traore

Sing such a song with all of your heart that you'll never have to sing again.

— Kabir

I rely on music heavily, just in life and in my work.

— Sandra Bullock

I like Jay-Z for his lyrics, his flow; he's always forward thinking.

— Kano

We were getting tagged as a one-hit wonder and we knew we had more in us.

— Steve Harwell

'Uri' has been made on a big scale and it's technically sound as well.

— Mohit Raina

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

— Ludwig van Beethoven