Song Quotes · Page 346

Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.

— Richard Rodney Bennett

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

— Marvin Hamlisch

I just want us to understand each other. That's the point of my music.

— Benjamin Clementine

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

— Dido Armstrong

Michael Tomlinson's music truly explores the issues of the heart.

— James Redfield

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll

— Gavin DeGraw

You are the music while the music lasts.

— T. S. Eliot

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

— George William Curtis

When I started the band, the name 'Silver Jews' had no literal meaning - it was just an abstraction.

— David Berman

But I put her car in park and never let her cry alone I listen to her heart beat because it plays…

— Lil Wayne

What I've learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someone's life.

— David Archuleta

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

— Pearl S. Buck

I really hate when I do a great song with great lyrics but my voice just don't fit because of the type…

— Rico Nasty

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

— Colin Greenwood

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

— Gene Clark

At the piano, scales, arpeggios And chords, the morning exercises, The afternoon's reading, the night's reflection, That's how to produce a virtuoso.

— Wallace Stevens

A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step…

— Henry David Thoreau

Gospel music was very prevalent in my house. My mother also loved Nat King Cole. That was some of the first music…

— Gregory Porter

I would have liked to have traded places with Jimi Hendrix for a day just to have that kind of mind in…

— Naveen Andrews

I don't hide anything about my life, I talk about everything. I talk about it - all kinds of things. I've done…

— Lady Saw

Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about…

— Greg Graffin

I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the…

— Kelela

One of the important things when you're making a record or doing a performance is the sequence of the songs. It really…

— Timothy B. Schmit

Collaboration allows me to challenge myself to find a new passion for music.

— Rodney Crowell

Sholeh Wolpé poetry proves to be rumination, prayer, song.

— Nathalie Handal

Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.

— Debra Wilson

I have always wanted my colours to sing.

— Paul Delvaux

I've never stopped working on songs and practising singing and guitar.

— Richard Dawson

Music becomes my best friend when nobody understands me.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

— Max Lucado

I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

— Jake Shears

So I wanna see all of you making out during this song.

— Joel Madden

I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.

— Cecil Taylor

I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself.

— GRiZ

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

— Tori Amos

I'm not using Comic Relief to launch my own singing career.

— Alex Brooker

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

— Glenn Miller

Many of my lyrics are about having sex with prostitutes.

— Kid Rock

O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!

— John Keats