Song Quotes · Page 34

“Nothing safe is worth the drive.”

— Taylor Swift

I come from a family of musicians.

— Dianne Reeves

Music is organized sound.

— Edgard Varese

Honest songs aren't written for money.

— Pete Seeger

All I care about is my music.

— Noah Cyrus

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

— Dorothy Fields

My songs are like my kids.

— Billy Joel

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

— Regina Spektor

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

— Morton Feldman

My voice is not so much 'bel canto' as 'can belto'.

— Harry Secombe

I'm putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.

— Kendrick Lamar

I may be preaching to the choir, but the choir needs a good song.

— Michael Moore

Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.

— Ferruccio Busoni

“This song would have no end; it couldn't possibly. This song was forever.”

— Steve Brezenoff

Music is admitted under the skin without permission.

— Jon Foreman

Drumming is the simplest thing that we can do to bring us together.

— Babatunde Olatunji

“Symphonies begin with one note; fires with one flame; gardens with one flower; and masterpieces with one stroke.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop…

— Kevin Parker

I love doing concerts, and I think my songs get another expression and energy when they are being played live.

— Astrid S

My wife is an incredible pianist. I don't think there's anything my wife can't do, in all actuality.

— Matt Hardy

Music is, I think, the best way to... not forget, but to just escape for a moment.

— Hayley Williams

When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.

— Linda Grant

I see myself as the ambassador of hip-hop. I do songs with people from everywhere. We ain't got nothing but love.

— Nate Dogg

In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.

— Anonymous

I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be…

— Dana Hill

“Familiar like a forgotten song from long ago that takes you back to a moment the second you hear it. And you…

— Katy Regnery

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of…

— Joan Baez

“The Qu'ran is God's song, not ours, not even Muhammad's. To allow such a song to pass through one's body, however imperfectly,…

— George Dardess

I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that…

— Elvis Costello

“Aren’t all the best songs about a girl? It doesn’t matter if it’s metal, if it’s country, if it’s blues or rock…

— Jay Crownover

I'm very grateful for being in this band, but there are only five people who know what it's like to be in…

— Fab Moretti

I was in bands as a singer-guitarist-songwriter until 1980-81. So, there's a bunch of stuff. A lot of the stuff is hard…

— David Torn

I literally cannot work without music.

— David Carson

“O lyric love! half angel half bird”

— Robert Browning

The music is a continuing thing.

— Stanley Donwood

I was singing before I could talk.

— Shelby Lynne

Music expressed what words cannot.

— Avieh Concepcion

I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

— Caitlin Rose

The music industry is very small.

— Rita Ora

Music can't change the world.

— Bob Geldof