Song Quotes · Page 327

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

— Frederic Chopin

Music is an organic thing. It's always progressing.

— Jim Kerr

Pretty young babe cost you nothing. Take a chance If you sing my song.

— Bob Sinclar

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

— Wim Wenders

I wouldn't be writing songs if I didn't have something to say.

— Cat Stevens

I take all of my music seriously and personally.

— Trevor Dunn

Our job is just to keep making great-sounding music and great performances.

— BoA

The Replacements don't sound like The Replacements half the time!

— Phoebe Bridgers

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

— Norman Granz

I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years.

— Thelma Houston

I write titles of songs a lot. sometimes I'll end up writing a song that I don't have a title for and…

— Shuggie Otis

When you look at anyone's iPod or iPhone and their music collection on there, it's not the same 10 songs. People like diversity.

— Jann Klose

Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls

— David O. McKay

Music is so much a part of me: my parents told me that when I was an infant, I wouldn't eat unless…

— Neil Sedaka

The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.

— Gregory Colbert

People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes.

— Kurt Cobain

“She loved your mother', Taliesin said gently. 'This is her farewell.' As he spoke, a chanted melody began inside the chamber, a…

— Rosalind Miles

You have to write songs for yourself and not worry about what other people are going to say or think about it.…

— Ben Howard

I went through eight years of classical piano lessons without being able to read notes. I only have to hear a melody…

— Liam Howlett

It's definitely complicated, but it's all about the music. When people focus on other things, I think that's when it gets lost,…

— Brynn Cartelli

“I wrote a song called "Stinky Sodomite." It isn't a pop song, a historical song, or a song condemning homosexuality. Rather, it…

— Jarod Kintz

I think I had a knack for music, but I think what I was more sort of talented at more than anything,…

— Justin Timberlake

Lost in Static 18 And the storm is closing in now Automatic 18 - Got to push through - Trapped in living…

— Mike Oldfield

I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could…

— Henry Rollins

The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.

— Albert Einstein

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

— Jim Capaldi

Music to me is life. It's what gets me going.

— Apolo Ohno

I have been singing all my life, so it is pretty much second nature to me.

— Gene Watson

Love is the person you think about during the sad songs.

— Kiran

I wrote a song called 'Pretty Little Dead Girl.'

— Seanan McGuire

I don't have trouble being brutally honest with my lyrics.

— Griff

I always want to keep moving musically and trying new things.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

Since I was a little child, I always wanted to do music. That was my passion.

— Tarja Turunen

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

— Travis Barker

I love music so much; I've always played.

— Creed Bratton

The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture.

— Richard Morris

Sometimes I hate writing songs. Because it hurts sometimes. I'm very emotional.

— Bibi Bourelly

“I'm the Hiphopapotomus, my lyrics are bottomless! uhhh…”

— Flight of the Conchords

Riding down in the old back roads, singing our songs. That's the best night.

— Anonymous

I like to sing with people, whether they're good or not.

— John Stamos