Song Quotes · Page 506

Everyone's attention span these days is limited to how long it takes to flick the iPod wheel on to the next song.

— Mat McNerney

Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework.

— Yoko Ono

I realised music was my calling, and I am one of those who's strongly bound by an infectious enthusiasm and passion.

— Sid Sriram

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I've always used songs and music and songwriting as a way to sort of let feelings go.

— Adam Gontier

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

When I go to shows, I'm really looking forward to hearing the songs I know. I don't like it when a band…

— Fred Durst

They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging.

— Jay McShann

There's a big song at the beginning [of Sausage Party], and that was really fun to do. It felt like we were…

— Evan Goldberg

The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the…

— Paul McCartney

We are God’s gift to each other. Like a master composer, He brings all the instruments together, each with a different tone,…

— Anonymous

“This afternoon a flock of doves settled on my porch. Their silence took the shape of all I ever wanted to say.…

— Richard Jackson

The first instrument I had was made in the late '70s. Back then they had basically one tuning. I shifted slightly away…

— Greg Howard

I always want to sing, but I don't always want to be trying to have No. 1 records. I don't think you…

— Trisha Yearwood

When the Dark comes rising six shall turn it back; Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; Water,…

— Susan Cooper

It's not the coolest thing in the world to be walking around humming the Taylor Swift song. It's not as cool to…

— Simon Helberg

I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

— Leo Ornstein

Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.

— Sam Hunt

I'm now 23 and feel like it's been a full 'crash course' in the music industry - I've only just found my sound.

— Nina Nesbitt

I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between…

— Fiona Apple

I think we appreciate the musicianship we're surrounded with. Too many bands - it's an ego trip for the leader.

— Derek Trucks

Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.

— Rob Sheffield

It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.

— Wayne Wonder

Music isn't selling like it used to, but the one thing you can't steal or download is a live show experience or…

— G-Eazy

As many times as I have done 'Marriage of Figaro,' I have never been able to ask Mozart what he intended in…

— Susanna Phillips

I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's…

— Stephen Stills

We did something that bands are kind of afraid of, or at least used to be, [which] is the YouTube scene. They…

— Chrissy Costanza

I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.

— Frederic Chopin

“In the mountains our throats become free. It's a wonder we don't break into song.”

— Franz Kafka

Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get…

— Dr. Dre

The last song I listen to before every match is 'Protect Ya Neck,' always has been.

— Dylan Alcott

I didn't really like 'You Raise Me Up' at the time we recorded it; now it's my favourite Westlife song.

— Shane Filan

The universe itself was created by the sound waves which that almighty created. So music and spirituality go together. Everything is interconnected.

— Diljit Dosanjh

“But now Jay’s mind was so full of other things that he could no longer hear the bird’s song.”

— Ilchi Lee

Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

— Beck

You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion…

— Kevin Jonas

I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally…

— Liv Tyler

The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation.

— Robert Greene