Song Quotes · Page 441

Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

— Carl Sandburg

The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.

— Richard Hell

I tend to like the traditional sound: three-part harmonies, guitar, and piano. I mean, a well-played guitar is a joy forever... or…

— Christine McVie

The Beatles and the Stones are for blowing your mind. The Doors are for afterward, when your mind is already gone . . .

— Gene Youngblood

I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is…

— Jimmy Heath

We can understand each other with music without words - and that's so important in these times when walls are built. In…

— Andris Nelsons

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

— Toru Takemitsu

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

— Gary Cole

“I mean, they're only the best punk band out there right now, named for the fucking apathy of a xenophobic fucking nation…

— Rachel Cohn

Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals…

— John Milton

I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it…

— Ryan Adams

As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of…

— Carl Linnaeus

The thing that makes you a good 'Caraoke Showdown' singer is you gotta have some knowledge of these songs. You gotta be…

— Craig Robinson

I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that. It encouraged my grand aunt…

— Peter Tosh

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds…

— Eberhard Weber

Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies…

— Barry Manilow

I'm hoping that people will love the music, but at the same time, the most important thing to me is that I…

— Justine Skye

I'm never going to stop writing music as Porter Robinson and I see 'Virtual Self' as more of a tangent.

— Porter Robinson

As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.

— James Bay

“The fire sings to the marshmallow, and the song turns the marshmallow brown because that's what marshmallows do when they're happy.”

— Rita Leganski

My biggest worry is that we have to keep making good music, and I want to do well, but I wonder if…

— Suga

I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

— Brenda Lee

The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.

— Bruce Lee

The Raspberries were together two years for one century. It was a very successful failure of a group.

— Eric Carmen

If a new artist comes, and he doesn't have a good record label to invest in him, then there is no point.

— Guru Randhawa

I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a…

— Don Johnson

I was a huge fan of this band called Sparks. It was a pretty good inauguration to music, since their music is…

— Johan Renck

The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.

— Plato

Reality is that even if you come out with a really good song, all will go to waste without good promotion.

— Seungri

The only goal right now that I can have, the only thing I can offer right now, is the need to get…

— Julian Casablancas

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and…

— Billy Bragg

I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying…

— Phillip Phillips

I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.

— Sergei Prokofiev

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

— John Berryman

“There is a music that forms sometimes, from the pairing of two people. An inescapable cadence that continues on.”

— Jason Mott

In Holland, there's a song that goes, 'Redheads - they know how to kiss.' But that's obviously not a song I made.…

— Lotte Verbeek

I always hope that my music can inspire someone, the same way other artists inspire me.

— Kelly Rowland

The punk era, at its best, celebrated questioning the norm and the promotion of originality. Both concepts have always resonated with me.

— Prabal Gurung

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

— Erin McKeown

I remember people telling me that at 5 1/2 minutes long, 'Lightning Crashes' would never be a hit song.

— Ed Kowalczyk