Song Quotes · Page 378

The evolution of the music is what allows it to survive.

— Eric Church

Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.

— Michael Jackson

The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

We would turn everything into songs in those days.

— Arlo Guthrie

Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.

— Utada Hikaru

The second album is the hardest to write. It's nothing like the first album.

— Theophilus London

There's nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be.

— Joey Ramone

I never gave up on music, and I feel like music never gave up on me.

— Bobby Womack

There's just a few people that call themselves stars can actually sit down with a guitar and sing you a song.

— Merle Haggard

The most important thing I gave the Beatles was my friendship. They trusted me: there was no fear in being photographed.

— Astrid Kirchherr

I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.

— Taylor Momsen

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday…

— Robert Fripp

You cannot put a song - you cannot put a person's talent over somebody's humanity. That's just insane.

— Tarana Burke

Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad…

— Elliott Smith

I wanna do a God album, a positive album so the kids and everybody will understand what's going on.

— Ghostface Killah

I feel like I always have to have a song on my album that people can use in their weddings.

— Brooke Fraser

The thing with the piano is, the piano is like percussion almost - well, it is. You have to... not beat on…

— Gregg Allman

People should listen to my music if they are into a lot of different genres and kind of want to get it…

— Kyle

I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Jazz is something that's constantly changing. Its sole purpose is to let people improvise, to let them solo differently each time they…

— Allan Holdsworth

I write songs in batches and then record them and then can't write again for ages. I try and build one song…

— Nick Cave

Everybody knows, when you have a band, there's always going to be a hierarchy, and there's always going to be some issue…

— Ashleigh Murray

There's a lot of women now with a whole lot of style but they are not necessarily song stylists. Some of their…

— Dolly Parton

The songs I was writing still had lyrics or sentiments that didn't match what I was feeling. It was old, negative energy…

— Damien Rice

“From castles of bone unknown music comes”

— Arthur Rimbaud

I also want to sing the lyrics penned by poets like Srijato.

— Jeet Gannguli

Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole

— Keith Richards

Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.

— Madonna Ciccone

“How could music cause so many lives to veer off course?”

— Rick Riordan

Jazz is not gonna be a dinosaur and stay around in one form.

— McCoy Tyner

All genres of music have their own beauty.

— Vidyasagar

'Through The Dark' - for sure, that's my favorite One Direction song.

— Anna Todd

The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind.

— Frederick Lenz

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

— Warren Zevon

I'm the oldest in my family and do play piano.

— David Lambert

Each song is a little snippet of my life - and I got to work with Rudimental!

— Tom Walker

If I wanted to make a subversive record, it would be horrifying and insane.

— Hunx

Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.

— Renee Fleming

Music is your life partner; don't let anybody come between music and you.

— Anonymous

I think I've just gotten better at learning how to write a song.

— Jonny Lang