Song Quotes · Page 456

Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker.

— William Green

I just want to write songs in my little corner. And I still love music, I've not been worn down by cynicism.

— Mick Hucknall

Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.

— George Etherege

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man in the moon.

— Harry Chapin

Lyrical content is very important to me. I'm always trying to make sure the lyrics and music complement each other perfectly.

— Matt Smith

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

— Kenny Werner

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

— Tori Amos

I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.

— Hamilton Leithauser

When I was asked to do a song from 'In the Heights' at the White House in 2009, I chose instead to…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

In high school, I started training, singing with choirs, and getting voice lessons and doing a lot of creative writing and decided…

— Goapele

This is pop music. You've got a candidate for president of the United States using it, that's hitting the biggest audience you're…

— Sammy Hagar

Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience…

— Al Jarreau

There are a lot of people on the lowest rung of Jacob's Ladder, and we must somehow reach down, give them a…

— Dave Brubeck

Only music clarifies, reconciles, and consoles. But it is not a straw just barely clutched at. It is a faithful friend, protector,…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to other…

— Bonnie McKee

“I’d always admired The Beatles for starting out as a bubblegum pop group and then getting heavier and heavier as their albums…

— Ozzy Osbourne

One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to…

— Marilyn vos Savant

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

— Kris Allen

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the…

— Charles de Lint

Under-sung vocals can be very sexy because of the intimacy, but they can be just as heartbreaking for the same reason.

— Justin Tranter

I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.

— Moby

The band changes one guy, sometimes the whole damn thing changes - look what happened when I joined Van Halen.

— Michael Anthony

I think there are more religious overtones in music because these artists want to be connected to greatness. What is greater or…

— Andy Mineo

We were always broke and always complaining about something and music came and gave us a reason. That's why we started Sepultura.

— Max Cavalera

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

— Charles Hazlewood

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the…

— Elton John

If you look at the big rock hits I've had - 'High on Emotion,' for example - the songs I write have…

— Chris de Burgh

When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.

— Joe Satriani

What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.

— Robert Wyatt

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

— Aldous Huxley

I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.

— Billy Corgan

There's no way to be a 30-year-old band, go on tour, and pretend the nostalgia isn't happening.

— Chris Cornell

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

— Confucius

If some of those people who wanted to ban Beethoven's music could hear the music that's being played today, wow, what would…

— Smokey Robinson

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I got a guitar when I was 14. I made really, really, really bad music as a teen. I learned to play…

— Hunx

I make music in my room, so it doesn't matter too much where I am, as long as I'm workin'.

— Snow Tha Product

I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans.

— Missy Elliott

That's the great thing about songwriting: You have that time to have perspective and look back and think about all the things…

— Gin Wigmore

I have an obsession with making an album rather than a collection of tracks. For me it's like making a film -…

— Jon Hopkins