Song Quotes · Page 398

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

— Alanis Morissette

I've written songs everywhere, and I think the place does matter.

— John Rzeznik

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

— Paul Whiteman

An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.

— Renee Fleming

I like to experiment when it comes to music.

— Javed Ali

I don't stream or buy CDs pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.

— Mark Hoppus

Music is something that's so powerful and means so much to me.

— Fantastic Negrito

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

— Trevor Dunn

Coming out of 'Wretched and Divine,' I was still wanting to explore the more theatrical elements of songwriting. That led to Andy…

— Andy Biersack

I kind of tend to write a lot of songs, so it's never too hard for me to finish an album; it's…

— Soccer Mommy

The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.

— Walther von der Vogelweide

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

— Joey Ramone

Honestly, I've been excited for music ever since I was 16 years old. I'll always love the music.

— Charles Bradley

What happens with writing a song and demoing it, for me the demo always becomes the master.

— Curt Smith

“88% of what we call good songs aren’t really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A lot of people assume that musicians are comrades by nature. It's cutthroat like anything else.

— Mike Patton

I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you…

— Sophie Tucker

Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and…

— Emile M. Cioran

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs…

— Kristin Hersh

We all feel like we're alone, but as artists, we get to see firsthand from our fans that we're not. Hearing them…

— Justine Skye

“Many today insist that music is amoral, that there is nothing innately good or bad about music itself. They say it is…

— Anonymous

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed…

— Mary J. Blige

When I sing, I go somewhere else. Every time after I sing, I'll ask, 'Did I do OK?' Because I feel like…

— Ashley Monroe

In life you can get a feeling which is part of a person, the same as in the songs. Music is almost…

— Steve Winwood

I've always loved singing and the catharsis of it.

— Autre Ne Veut

I just always make honest music. I just always kinda do what I wanna do.

— Julia Holter

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

— Garth Brooks

Music and space collide for me, as I find them incredibly stimulating.

— M. Shadows

For me, learning how to sing was just like learning how to speak.

— Lisa Stansfield

The battle over Napster has divided musicians and industry officials.

— Parker Conrad

I wanna sing about something that's sexy and edgy.

— Brandy Norwood

“Music only makes me think deeper and love stronger.”

— Debasish Mridha

The music is the easy part. The business is the hard part.

— Boosie

Hopefully, I can stay around a lot of young musicians and feed off of them.

— Trombone Shorty

I have nothing to say about the music of others because it's a matter of taste.

— Dennis Lloyd

Music never stops; it is only the listening that is intermittent.

— Henry David Thoreau

I hope to touch many Hearts through my music

— Prince Royce

We're a band that keeps writing and recording - we don't know when it's over.

— Shavo Odadjian

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

— Tim Finn

The hardest thing with musicians is getting them not to play.

— Prince