Song Quotes · Page 496

If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

— Danger Mouse

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.

— Lee Konitz

I love music, I've always done music, felt it on a spiritual level and I write for myself and not anybody else.

— Montaigne

I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

I've been walking to school and trying to figure out what's going on there; some of the production and songs are so…

— Mike Tucker

You can say what you think music is, but the only way it really is, is how people experience it.

— Stone Gossard

I like to think illegal downloads only do real damage to the endless amounts of careless pop music though.

— Ben Howard

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

— Ahmad Jamal

I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time.…

— Laura Mvula

I really think it's just the people you put around you. For instance, you mentioned "Kiss Goodbye," that was a song that…

— Cody Johnson

My aim in times to come is not to just work with Muslims but to actually sing songs for everyone and sing…

— Junaid Jamshed

“Abba songs, as anyone who knows knows, are constructed, technically and harmonically, so as to physically imprint the human brain as if…

— Ali Smith

I think the difference between a good song and a great song is... honestly, I think the lyrics, because if you have…

— Bonnie McKee

How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven…

— Edward Abbey

Medicine is often conservative and slow to incorporate something that wasn't there before and that we're afraid people are going to laugh…

— Neal Barnard

It was - I'm very didactic in my lyrics, but I've always been drawn to mock my own emotions, and so I…

— Tim Minchin

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.

— George Jones

“Now I know that the songs are just tools that help us get in the right place for the presence of God…

— Martin Smith

Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music.

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

If I hear a song that I like, my first instinct is to find out about who made it.

— Chris Martin

As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.

— Noel Gallagher

Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help.

— Richard Kadrey

I remember at the age of, and I'll say this, 10 and a half, 11, I had a natural boy soprano.

— Anthony Warlow

You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker.

— Bruce Johnston

I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

— Abigail Washburn

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Artists have different stages in their career, from George Michael via Wham! to people like Kylie. A change of perception is what's…

— Shakin' Stevens

It's not just a song I sing with my hand raised but also with a billfold I've laid.

— Johnny Hunt

The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the…

— Rabindranath Tagore

I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel…

— Anonymous

I can't tell you how many times I've turned to Parliament Funkadelic for inspiration and actually just outright and replayed or sampled…

— Too Short

I think there are records that will sell, and I think what makes a record sell is a continuity of sound.

— Dr. Luke

I want my music to sound good on whatever people are listening - laptop speakers, those crappy little white ones you get…

— Jack Garratt

I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my…

— Mike Stoller

I like listening to Beyonce, and I like Jason Derulo. I love his new song 'Don't Wanna Go Home.'

— Jackie Evancho

Raydiation is more mature, reveals more about me personally and focuses on singing and songs that people can relate to.

— Ray J

I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.

— Taylor Swift

I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should…

— Ice Cube

My dear fellow, my whole life is moved by the principle that the one thing which is more important than peace is…

— Robertson Davies

It's amazing how hearing one song can bring back so many memories and make you realise how much you need that one…

— Nishan Panwar