Song Quotes · Page 39

Dream Song: The heavens Go with me.

— Frances Densmore

Music is only good sometimes.

— Phil Elverum

Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!

— Mika

Sometimes magic sounds like tape.

— The Amazing Johnathan

Jazz musicians are spiritual by nature.

— John Densmore

I'm not really a music person.

— Bobby Kotick

I just rediscovered my guitar.

— Ben Gibbard

“Sing the song in your heart!”

— Tasha Dunagan

For me every song's like pussy so fuck it

— Anonymous

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

— Randy Newman

Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.

— Thom Yorke

War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.

— Wendell Phillips

There's nothing - nothing - like the magic of playing music.

— Butch Trucks

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

— Martin Fleischmann

Others may sing the song. Others may right the wrong.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

I feel like I'll be writing World War 2 music the rest of my life.

— Michael Giacchino

I realized music is the most important thing to me and I love writing songs, and I think I had more to…

— Chad Gilbert

What makes us so different from anything else is we're a rock band with a boy band fanbase.

— Luke Hemmings

I listen to a pretty wide variety of albums so as to get influenced by nothing particular.

— William Beckett

I get my inspiration from a lot of bands actually. I really like AC/DC, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin and new bands. I like…

— Bea Miller

“Listening to music, I realized, was simply the pleasure of counting without realizing you were counting.”

— Matt Haig

Music is entertainment, and we need that in order not to fall into the pit of despair.

— Varg Vikernes

I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond…

— Robert Wyatt

I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.

— Bruno Mars

I just write songs, I make music, and I have several times over reinvented my life in order to keep making music…

— Doug Walters

When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did…

— Alicia Keys

“A treble clef, for example, resembles a Muscovite or Leningrader in a bulky hooded parka. A bass clef bends as simply and…

— William T. Vollmann

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Youth enwrapped them; the song of Phaethon announced passion requited, love attained. But they were conscious of a love more mysterious than…

— E.M. Forster

James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are…

— Jon Landau

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love…

— Anonymous

Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have…

— Dan Hill

I love songs that grow with you.

— Jelly Roll

I don't intend to stop making music.

— Frank Ocean

Every song is different.

— Dimebag Darrell

Music is a healing tool.

— Rickey Medlocke

I play the guitar a little bit.

— Jim DeMint

Music is what our feelings sound like.

— Vera Farmiga

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

— Ozzy Osbourne

I'm a great lover of ballads.

— Ry Cooder