Song Quotes · Page 330

Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.

— Sun Ra

All John Coltrane's records are amazing.

— Kamasi Washington

I always said that I'm not the best singer in the world, just the loudest.

— Tammy Wynette

Everything I listen to is influential in some way.

— Joanna Noelle Levesque

I don't believe in false memories, like I don't believe in false songs.

— John Lydon

We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.

— Adrian Smith

You know how bad my voice sounds - well it feels just as bad.

— George Herman

We don't tend to break into song when we go to war.

— Niki Caro

I just know that young people suffer, and I also know music is one of the things that help you get through…

— Patti Smith

The way people come to church every week, know the songs and be hurting on the inside. We miss the moment to…

— Israel Houghton

Between nature and music there seems to be an elective affinity: they fit together, and when they do experiences of an ineffable…

— David E. Cooper

I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire…

— Jessica Pare

It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.

— Morton Gould

When I was 6 years old, I asked my parents for an organ. I don't have any idea why I wanted an organ.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Every song becomes an emotional journey for me, and only then will the soul of the song remain honest.

— Anirudh Ravichander

The number-one thing about the hyphy isn't the sideshow or doing donuts. It's the music.

— Too Short

I'm still not entirely sure how 'Pretty Girl' blew up the way it did. It wasn't really meant to. The song was…

— Clairo

Don't let the sun go down on me Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see I'd just allow a…

— Anonymous

A lot of times what happens is, not even just with child actors, but people in general, is they get so caught…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

When I hear other artists talk, they talk about 'How come radio's not playing my song?' Well, you have to look at…

— Blake Shelton

“It was a hymn with the force of a march, a march with the majesty of a hymn. It was a song…

— Ayn Rand

It's funny: Your relationship changes with a song over time. After a year or so, you're a different person, so your songs,…

— Hozier

I can write a song in the back of the bus, where I am right now, or in my living room, and…

— Juliette Lewis

Seasons may change winter to spring, but I love you until the end of time Come what may, come what may, I…

— Ewan McGregor

Like a song stuck in my head... You are stuck in my heart

— Becca

I think people care a lot more about mood and feeling than they do genre.

— Laufey

“Bach: a scale of tears upon which our desires for God ascend.”

— Emil Cioran

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

— Darren Criss

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

— Luciano Pavarotti

Memorizing the song and singing it are two different things.

— Jim Sarbh

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

— Mel Brooks

The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.

— Alan Hovhaness

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

— John Lewis

I think the more removed I feel, the more I warm up to the role of singer.

— Dan Bejar

Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he's always crying.

— Billy Idol

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.

— Clarence Clemons

My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician.

— Reeve Carney

Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.

— R. Kelly

I'm watching The Singing Detective.' I'm rather taken by it.

— Jonathan Bailey

Music is decisions, and I decide for me what are brilliant decisions.

— Gylve Nagell