Song Quotes · Page 501

To us the music is the most important element and they lyrics are something that adds an extra element.

— Ron Mael

Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I'm a guitar player. I've carved out my own style of guitar music, so I don't look for inspiration with playing guitar.

— Jamie Hince

“Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”

— William Congreve

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

— Neville Marriner

We would say, OK, the B section isn't good enough, let's rewrite that,' until we felt the song was great.

— Tony Kanal

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

— Rod Stewart

Confusion starts to rhyme in this melody I sing. Questions filled my mind, puzzlement is all it brings.

— Cleo

I guess I wanted to emulate the artists that my parents were listening to when I was growing up. I've always had…

— Sarah Jaffe

I feel there is love and confidence in me somewhere and I want to find it. So far, music is the only…

— Wesley Eisold

We have a duty towards music; namely to invent it. ...Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. For the…

— Igor Stravinsky

I don't know about the time those songs were written. But he was jamming with someone in Colorado or San Francisco, and…

— Krist Novoselic

I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night…

— Jason Mraz

“Ambitious parents who are currently playing the ‘Baby Mozart’ video for their toddlers may be disappointed to learn that Mozart became Mozart…

— Geoff Colvin

A formidable game of 'Name That Influence' could be based on the music of the seductive rock duo Girls: The band's first…

— Anthony Fantano

When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as…

— Trevor Rabin

You’re the missing piece I need The song inside of me I need to find you I gotta find you

— Demi Lovato

John Bonham, probably the greatest drummer ever - all of us wanted to play drums like him.

— Vinnie Paul

Any of the bands that came out at the same time as us, they're either gone now, or they got just mega…

— Wayne Static

The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang…

— Shusaku Endo

I was genuinely happy when I wrote that song [Training Wheels] and very in love. That's a very rare emotion to evoke…

— Melanie Martinez

Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.

— Kenny G

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter…

— Laurence Sterne

The thing for me though, is that songs are good depending on the memories I have with them.

— George Ezra

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius”

— Confucius

'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

— Chip Esten

When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make…

— Arca

I obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me.

— Melanie Martinez

I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.

— Lola Kirke

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

— Bill Frisell

There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.

— Rick Rubin

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

— Anonymous

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a…

— Sammy Hagar

Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change…

— Thom Yorke

You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so…

— Mick Jagger

To record an album is cathartic, or at least it was with 'Belus,' but to make music is more fulfilling than anything…

— Varg Vikernes

Music is like my secret garden. It's where I heal myself from every pain that I feel. It's like a therapy.

— Jain

My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

— Carl Sandburg

When your songs are like your babies, even the one that you know aren't great, you still love.

— Cody Johnson

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.

— Phil Collins