Song Quotes · Page 371

Has the industry done to music what McDonald’s has done to eating?

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

I like music, a lot of different types of music.

— Raymond Kelly

There's a ton of amazing music that's not getting heard.

— A-Trak

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

— Gabriel Marcel

Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.

— Nat Hentoff

Music is a very spiritual and emotional force.

— Susan Tedeschi

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

— Joseph Addison

My mother and dad loved music, were very much into music.

— Jim Foglesong

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.

— Elaine Paige

From the beginning, with our first album, we wanted to make the music that maybe was lacking around us - the music…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

If people really like your music but you're not selling so many records, I don't think it really matters.

— Nina Nesbitt

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

— Richard Thompson

I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.

— Esperanza Spalding

I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing of rags and patches,…

— Julian Sands

I played the guitar in ninth grade. My sister's friend went on a semester abroad, and she left the guitar at our…

— David Walton

The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

— Satyajit Ray

We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask…

— Gene Ween

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what…

— Kate Bush

“Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone and because of that, it discredits people,…

— Stephen Chbosky

Oh God almighty, another Detroit monster is Chad Smith of the Chili Peppers. Their music is intoxicating between Flea and Chad Smith.…

— Ted Nugent

We formed this band when we were 18-19, we couldn't play... We were just like 'Let's get together and play some cover…

— Lars Ulrich

When I was taking arithmetic in the first grade I said to myself, "I'm going to be a singer. I don't have…

— Linda Ronstadt

Of course, you're not making records in a vacuum. I'm not making them for myself. It would be nice if I could…

— Pat Benatar

Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people…

— Eric Van Lustbader

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

— Billy Idol

Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not making music for old people or young people.

— Stromae

But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

— Walton Goggins

It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.

— Sara Teasdale

I've been singing most of my life in choirs and musicals.

— Noah Reid

I love making music. It's just something that I can't stop doing.

— Fetty Wap

I don't like when songs are distinctly happy or sad.

— Alex G

It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.

— Neil Young

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

— Vikram Seth

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

— Frederic Chopin

I started singing when I started talking.

— Mariah Carey

I love singing. The joy of singing live - I don't think I will ever stop that.

— Emmylou Harris

'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.

— Erich Bergen

Band shuts down at two but we're hangin' out till three.

— Trace Adkins

Whenever I'm obsessed about anything, that becomes the subject of a song.

— Redfoo