Song Quotes · Page 326

My music is evidence of my soul's will to live.

— Charles Mingus

I just want people to listen to my music, respect it and like it.

— Snow Tha Product

We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.

— Twyla Tharp

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

— Claude Debussy

I think this song, 'Ioniq,' is the best song for commercial music.

— Kim Tae-hyung

I want my music to have a positive effect on people.

— B. J. Thomas

The first time I listened to jazz was when I was 8.

— Hiromi Uehara

Anytime I sing the anthem, it is an honor and my heart beats out of my chest.

— Luke Bryan

Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

— James Brown

I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have…

— Jimmy Cliff

That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else.

— Kendrick Lamar

I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time.

— R. Kelly

If people say to me, 'So, what were you doing in Dubai in that song?' or they spend ages comparing me to…

— Aldous Harding

You may be a top singer with the best voice, but some1 singing with all his heart may somtimes be better..

— Yudish

I was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church…

— Frank Fairfield

There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

— Katey Sagal

Buddy Holly had something very different from the other great early rock n' roll stars, whether it was Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley,…

— Greil Marcus

I never stopped grinding. I never stopped hustling. I never stopped working. I just kept moving. It has nothing to do with…

— Juicy J

The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got…

— Jimmy Chamberlin

As 'Dilbar' has become a huge hit internationally, including Middle East, we have taken the song and re-composed it, written Arabic and…

— Nora Fatehi

I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you…

— Chantal Kreviazuk

At a certain age, we have already been struck by love; it no longer develops alone, according to its own mysteries and…

— Marcel Proust

As I've gotten older, I've realized the element that sounds like The Gaslight Anthem that's mine is always going to be me.…

— Brian Fallon

I think, as an artist, the overall goal is to teach and educate no matter what the song is about. Somewhere where…

— Gza

“Good music will make you forget all your misery.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

— Billy Sherwood

I've been writing songs since I was a kid. You just hope that you get better.

— Michael Penn

Life is Like a song it tells a story it can be good at times and bad at others

— Andrea Ball

I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.

— Mitski

This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.

— Samuel Goldwyn

I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.

— Chris Isaak

The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.

— Henry Miller

“Every single day I'll keep you with me, no matter how far from me you are.”

— S.C. Stephens

I think music - it sounds cliche, but music can be very healing.

— Mack Wilberg

The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right.

— Prince

I hate everything I do. I hate my voice. I sound like a guy.

— Robin Wright

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

— Bruce Springsteen

I don't remember ever not singing. It's just as natural as breathing for me.

— Keith Whitley

When I was 11 years old, I started playing guitar.

— Wyclef Jean

God has provided true musical and spiritual restoration.

— Jonathan Cain