Song Quotes · Page 288

We were copying lots of bands, like Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show.

— Winston Marshall

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

Music is the most spiritual language for the human being.

— Celedonio Romero

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

— Pablo Picasso

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

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

— Rod Stewart

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

— Matt Berninger

I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.

— Mary Timony

I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the…

— Vince Gill

I used to stand in front of the mirror and listen to Hezekiah Walker all day. I thought I was a member…

— Mike Willis

I've got lifetime memories tied to my songs; I never get tired of singing them. I don't blame you if you don't…

— B. J. Thomas

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of…

— Nana Mouskouri

I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New…

— Talib Kweli

Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that…

— Van Morrison

Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.

— William Wordsworth

I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was…

— Teena Marie

You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine…

— J. Tillman

I didn't have much of a relationship with the songs and my voice was changing. I didn't have any control over it.…

— Tevin Campbell

I get told I'm a confessional songwriter, which gets on my tits because I think of negative connotations attached to the word…

— Beth Orton

I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not…

— Avicii

Basically, I didn't want to sing anything for the sake of singing it. There were some songs where I really wailed, but…

— Aaron Tveit

There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the…

— Esperanza Spalding

Pop music often deals with subject matter like breakups, or you have songs that are like, "I will love you forever," or…

— Shura

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

— Rick Danko

I like to think of music as an emotional science.

— George Gershwin

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

— Ramin Djawadi

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

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

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.

— Rokia Traore

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

— Gustav Mahler

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

— Mohit Raina

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

— Steve Harwell

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

— Kano

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

— Sandra Bullock

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

— Kabir

I think making the songs is to put strength in the community in some way.

— Craig Finn