Song Quotes · Page 244

People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.

— Dick Dale

Singing is the form I've chosen to express myself. It's the way I emote best.

— Billy Squier

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

— Frank Ocean

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

— Katey Sagal

I hope Green Day write more for the theater. They're brilliant at it.

— Tom Kitt

People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

— Talib Kweli

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

— Michael McKean

We used to jam forever. We'd play one song for three hours, easy.

— John Popper

I've played piano since I was 4 years old, and I've always loved songs by J. S. Bach.

— Andrew W.K

Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing…

— Elihu Burritt

I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the…

— Dr. Dre

'Meri Odhe Naal' is a traditional Punjabi song and our constant endeavor is to traditionally urbanize the folk sound and bring it…

— Neha Bhasin

Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't…

— Chad Hurley

It was a lot of insensitivity, especially as maybe as far as the 'Africa' video goes. But the song was about a…

— Steve Porcaro

Surviving in music is the same as surviving in a place like Knowle West - sometimes you need to be low-key, but…

— Tricky

It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human…

— Nina Simone

Albums tend to dictate what they need. Every time I have made an album it sort of feels like it is decided…

— KT Tunstall

I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only…

— Jerry Spinelli

There's still value in a CD, even if it's just nostalgic. People are still willing to pay. But it can't compare to…

— J. Cole

I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down…

— Yo-Yo Ma

Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes…

— Anthony Davis

I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La…

— Kim Gordon

“done with the planets and the hills and the trees and the oceans and the lesser beasts. The cliffs that bound existence…

— Neil Gaiman

Part of the shabbiness of our culture, if indeed it is shabby, is that it doesn't seem to prepare people. With all…

— Leonard Cohen

If I could make noise with anything, I was going to.

— Hunter Hayes

Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.

— Josh Tillman

You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.

— Lou Reed

“life-sucks-but-at-least-there's-good-music”

— Lauren Myracle

I can't ever see myself stopping DJing or producing.

— Hardwell

Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.

— Kenneth Branagh

We have started to make music at age seven. That was a hard work.

— Bill Kaulitz

Not all of my songs are electronic, they're not house or dancey.

— Chaz Bundick

I feel like good music comes and goes in waves.

— Santigold

The universe corresponds to the nature of your song.

— Michael Beckwith

Maybe we should all just listen to records and quit our jobs

— Jack White

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

— Dizzy Gillespie

If you see the trend today, people's music preference changes every two years.

— Rahul Vaidya

I am actually a soprano. No one knows this.

— Donna Lynne Champlin

I can't remember the last time I looked at a Nirvana web site.

— Krist Novoselic

We proved to the world that a completely Spanish song can take over the world.

— J Balvin