Song Quotes · Page 489

Is it music? ... This is not the important question. The important question is, is it interesting?

— Mark Applebaum

I want to eventually get to a point where I can make all types of music for every type of crowd.

— Dave East

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

— Mark Knopfler

When you're listening to music while you're sad all what you are focusing on is the lyrics , but the lyrics is…

— Spido

You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch, but the…

— Thundercat

I've always been music-oriented. My dad was a musician, and I listened to the radio all of the time.

— Timothy B. Schmit

It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.

— Keith Richards

You know, I've written many of my songs while driving - which is against the law in many cases.

— Chuck D

The one good thing about a movie and music and stuff like that: Sometimes it's a counterpoint between the movie and the…

— Patrick Watson

It was Miles Davis who took me to New York, and Coltrane was in the band, as well as Paul Chambers, Philly…

— Curtis Fuller

Music speaks directly to the heart. This response, this echo within the heart, is proof that human hearts can transcend the barriers…

— Daisaku Ikeda

“John… Paul… George. And Ringo. Collectively the four most famous names in the world. Extraordinary young men who have directly altered the…

— Brian Epstein

You know One Direction do a lot of up tempo songs, but when they did that Ed Sheeran song 'Little Things,' that…

— Shane Filan

I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to…

— Al Yankovic

The fact that I'm shouting that I have Gangnam style makes people crack up. Imagine if Brad Pitt was singing the song…

— PSY

“The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight, the weight we…

— Allen Ginsberg

I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.

— Neil Farber

Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just…

— Chris Isaak

In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

— Yoko Ono

I have country songs, I have rock songs, I have songs that don't even sound like songs.

— Riff Raff

'Allegiance' is pretty much a book musical. You know, people talk and then they burst out into song.

— Lea Salonga

Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like…

— Eddie Van Halen

“I know that whenever I see some goon energetically mouthing the words to a song I can't hear, I assume the worst:…

— John Sellers

Many of my songs just come together in quatrains because that's how a hymn goes.

— Julien Baker

I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth…

— Olive Schreiner

Babe, I'll walk the seven seas when I believe that there's a reason. To write you a love song today, today.

— Sara Bareilles

My music is my way of reaching out to the world and I am glad that through the right projects I am…

— Tanishk Bagchi

Being in a band is like a small family. You travel together, make music, and share time with each other.

— Mohit Chauhan

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that…

— John Cage

I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music.

— The Notorious B.I.G

Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than…

— Martin Luther

I think an album is all about the songs you've worked on and the journey it's taken to get there.

— Bishop Briggs

I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.

— Alex Cox

I've fully turned a corner in terms of thinking about my own voice. I think I have a pretty cool voice, just…

— Bowen Yang

I hear a good song and I start thinking, 'Oh shoot. You know there's a story that can be told to this,'…

— Uzodinma Iweala

If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose…

— Aaron Copland

The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.

— Kailash Kher

In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.

— Anonymous

There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make…

— George Eliot