Song Quotes · Page 339

When you listen to someone's songs, their soul comes through.

— Matt Ross

Good music is very close to primitive language.

— Denis Diderot

There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress.

— Coleman Hawkins

I'm very enthusiastic about new music, old music - whatever.

— Leslie Uggams

“If people are not dancing to your tune, change the song.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

— Erykah Badu

The worst things in life come free to us

— Anonymous

My voice gon' stick out like a turd in a punch bowl.

— E-40

From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.

— Dave Grohl

I didn't want to release a song like 'Spice Girl' right after 'Caroline' because I didn't want another 'hit' kind of song.

— Amine

I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

— Eddie Van Halen

Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father.

— David Platt

As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.

— Bryce Dessner

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because…

— Ani DiFranco

Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway…

— Jimmy Page

I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to…

— Ariana Grande

The copy of an ad is merely a punning gag to distract the critical faculties while the image of the product goes…

— Marshall McLuhan

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I…

— Jordin Sparks

I heard these stories [about musicians from my mother] and somehow music, it was my understanding what my father had done. I…

— Jon Gordon

Maybe in the future, you'll be able to understand what I'm saying. I'm going more for an atmospheric vibe in my songs.…

— Washed Out

Metal never dies. Sometimes it's not on the radio and sometimes it's not at the forefront, but heavy rock or metal, or…

— Wayne Static

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when…

— Donald Miller

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the…

— Gerry Mulligan

With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims, And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns,…

— Bob Dylan

To me, prog-rock is ELP. And for me personally, that stuff is really boring.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.

— Diana Gabaldon

I sure love to write songs, but I'm not so sure of my voice.

— J. J. Cale

What we've learned is there's no right way to write a song.

— Susan Tedeschi

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

— Dan Hill

Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.

— Anonymous

I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.

— George Benson

Music reflects an artist's feelings and their experiences.

— Adnan Sami

I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.

— Jerome Kern

There's songs like 'Africa' that just have kind of become part of pop culture.

— Steve Porcaro

The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.

— Joshua Bell

I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

There's no stopping and no limits on what musicians and artists can produce.

— Bhushan Kumar

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

— Kristin Hersh

Every song asks to be sung in a different way.

— Ray LaMontagne

Spotify will dramatically change my industry.

— Chamillionaire