Song Quotes · Page 437

I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

— Bela Fleck

You know, your voice can only last for so long. It's a muscle and when you get older it sort of fades…

— Vera Lynn

Musicians always respected me because they knew I'm a huge music lover and I know what I'm talking about.

— Perez Hilton

I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way.

— Nuno Bettencourt

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

— Isadora Duncan

Watch for all that beauty reflecting from you and sing a love song to your existence.

— Rumi

“In the words of a rap song my neighbor used to play on his boombox when I was a kid: Hold up,…

— Mariana Zapata

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

— Anton Yelchin

Sometimes you might get inspired by something, write about it, then later that lyrics sounds better on another beat. That's happened a…

— Dizzee Rascal

Before any girl was making me her Man Crush Monday, I was a singer. Back before I had muscles, when I had…

— Luke James

Being in a boy ban,d you're not allowed to be good at anything. You're not allowed to be talented. You're not really…

— Ronan Keating

I have no problem with people illegally downloading stuff. I'm not going to drive hard into 'You should buy my stuff,' because…

— Brendon Urie

... you should wait until the book is finished before making a judgment on its content. By the time you have gone…

— Walter Mosley

You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all…

— Art Blakey

“...bands fall out. But at the end of the day, they're like family. You get back together because you have to, because…

— Antony John

Now, jazz institutions are more readily available for young people, but for me, the institutions were the bands that I was in.…

— Dianne Reeves

I think that, for me - and I try to show it with my music - whatever is real to you is…

— Maisie Peters

Guerillas' uses a snippet of 'Procreation of the Wicked' by Celtic Frost because I always loved that song.

— Max Cavalera

You know I ain't really got the money. This your favorite song, song but I promise one day we gon go I…

— Bei Maejor

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

— Roscoe Mitchell

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

— Anonymous

Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about…

— Sean Paul

“Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermès factory. Shit is real. You're not going to find a chink. It's 100,000 percent…

— Kanye West

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle…

— Barry Gibb

I like singing in the street, so if you saw a little Indian kid walking on the street singing loudly, that was…

— Sanjaya Malakar

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing…

— Keith Richards

Singing has always been an important part of my life and I have always loved singing.

— Sara Khan

I never had any other thought in my mind. I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a…

— Kim Carnes

I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake…

— Charles Darwin

A day-time song like 'Word Starts Attack,' I want to make your heart blow up and make you want to punch the…

— Johnny Marr

I listen to a wide variety of music of all genres, but sometimes you just need a cheesy pop song.

— Cynthia Addai-Robinson

Indie music is picking up and artistes are more confident about putting out music with no big name attached to it.

— Amaal Mallik

We don't want to categorize our music. Some people say you need a definite musical direction to give a group visibility.

— Billy Squier

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of…

— Dave Brubeck

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

— Alanis Morissette

People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.

— Chick Corea

Lots of people say it's the song. For me, it's not always the song - there's something bigger: the spirit of an…

— Steve Lillywhite

Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.

— Saul Williams

It's weird because it almost takes something like Chickenfoot to make me realize why I was playing music in the first place.…

— Michael Anthony

In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different…

— Itzhak Perlman