Song Quotes · Page 307

I've always loved music and loved recording.

— Samantha Barks

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

— John Cage

Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

— Alasdair Gray

I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.

— Little Richard

We have songs like 'Holiday in My Head,' which has that 'All Star' vibe to it.

— Steve Harwell

The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Dave East

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

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

I believe my songs are strong enough to stand on their own - even way back then when they were recorded badly…

— Sharon Van Etten

I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.

— Nish Kumar

I started singing and writing songs since childhood and later started releasing my independent music.

— Guru Randhawa

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

— Ed Kowalczyk

As we begin to face up to the holiness of God, our lives resound with that very same anthem, here and now…

— Matt Redman

When I'm having a song-in-the-shower moment, I go to 'The Blessed Unrest' by Sara Bareilles.

— Jonathan Van Ness

The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the…

— Jose Saramago

I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

— Richie Sambora

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step…

— Henry David Thoreau

A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic…

— Bruce Dickinson

That's how a lot of Tame Impala songs start out - as ideas for songs I could potentially give to someone else.…

— Kevin Parker

Through the dark days of legalized segregation and on into the civil rights era, jazz shone as a beacon for achieving interracial…

— Randy Sandke

One of the important things when you're making a record or doing a performance is the sequence of the songs. It really…

— Timothy B. Schmit

Gospel music was very prevalent in my house. My mother also loved Nat King Cole. That was some of the first music…

— Gregory Porter

I would have liked to have traded places with Jimi Hendrix for a day just to have that kind of mind in…

— Naveen Andrews

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

— Rich Mullins

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

— Kristin Hersh

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

We had always put ballads on all of our albums.

— John Rzeznik

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

— Van Morrison

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

— Katy B

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

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

— George Harrison

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

— Charlotte Caffey

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

— Jimi Hendrix

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

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

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

— Chico Hamilton