Song Quotes · Page 281

Torturing yourself with depressing music when you're already feeling sad.

— Anonymous

When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice.

— Sarah Vaughan

Hold up your cups and sing along, to one more drinking song.

— Jerrod Niemann

As a kid, I loved to sing along to the Drifters and Otis Redding.

— Paolo Nutini

When I know it's like a bass song, I gotta go with my SP-1200.

— Mannie Fresh

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

There is a pinciple in the heart of music which has yet to be discovered.

— John Herschel

To play your colors by eye is worse than playing the piano by ear.

— John French Sloan

Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.

— Bob Dylan

It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything:…

— J Mascis

Most of the time in Nashville, you're so replaceable. Anybody can get another nice-looking guy to sing a country song.

— Walker Hayes

Genuine music, to me, is the one which has no purpose. It should be as natural and as purposeless as the flow…

— Ilaiyaraaja

Music should not be a contest, it should be an individual thing that each band is putting out from within themselves.

— Chuck Schuldiner

When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song…

— Deborah Cox

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

— Pete Fountain

A lot of big whoever producers, they come with a song and they say, 'Sing this,' and I'm not that girl.

— Estelle

I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm…

— Nate Ruess

I think for new artists the hardest thing is putting the face with a name. People maybe heard our song on the…

— Charles Kelley

I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 and I wrote my first song shortly after. Music was really important in…

— Eric Hutchinson

I'll make a whole bunch of beats whenever, but unless I'm living through something or have a female in mind, or have…

— PartyNextDoor

I definitely always wanted to be a singer and a performer. I think I got it from my parents because my dad's…

— Perrie Edwards

“The travelers emerged into a spacious square. In the middle of this square were several dozen people on a wooden bandstand like…

— Vasily Grossman

Meditate, oft. Separate thyself for a season from the cares of the world. Get close to nature and learn from the lowliest…

— Edgar Cayce

There's no reason anybody should be reading too much into 'Thrift Shop.' I just have because I have a 10-year-old and a…

— Al Madrigal

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.

— Anonymous

You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.

— Petra Haden

Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.

— Paul McCartney

I'm very careful with the lyrics in all my dance songs.

— Devi Sri Prasad

As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion.

— Slash

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.

— Maria von Trapp

The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.

— Anonymous

I love amazing lyrics paired with amazing melodies.

— Kim Petras

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

— Keith Jarrett

In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.

— Immortal Technique

I want my music to leave an indelible mark.

— Roger Miller

Sometimes I feel the music is the only medicine.

— Kanye West

“Music is a light! It can reach anywhere and it can touch anything!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Music is life. Its slowly taking it over and I love it.

— Anonymous

What does sharing music mean? It means playing it for people.

— Anonymous

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

— Friedrich Nietzsche