Song Quotes · Page 51

Let the music speak for itself.

— Roy Hargrove

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

— Henri Matisse

“The right song can change everything.”

— Jody Gehrman

I love bummer songs.

— Ben Gibbard

Music is the soundtrack to my life.

— James Hetfield

Songs are as sad as the listener.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Music is the silence between the notes.

— Claude Debussy

I believe in item songs.

— Sameera Reddy

If I like a song, I'll just keep playing it, and it never gets old.

— Bradley Cooper

Sometimes I have songs born out of stories.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

— Cyndi Lauper

Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.

— Robert Schumann

Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.

— Courtney Barnett

My mom wouldn't let me sing 'Strawberry Wine' because it had 'wine' in it.

— Avril Lavigne

Apartheid didn't impinge on music. It impinged on people's freedoms.

— Hugh Masekela

I'm tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat.

— Charlie Sheen

Singing is kind of like stress relief and everything just kind of makes sense when I'm doing this.

— Rose

Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing that's lasting.

— George Benson

We never said we were hard-core or that we didn't want our music crossing over or being popular.

— Pepa

“I don't get jazz. It always sounds like a bunch of toddlers let loose in a music room.”

— Libba Bray

I was a young troubadour when I rode in on a song. And, I'll be an old troubadour when I'm gone.

— George Strait

You can impact on people with music, and I love that because music impacts on me.

— Tash Sultana

I've literally become comfortable with approaching whatever style of music at any time.

— Jonny Lang

There were songs that we cut out after we chose the name, because 'Praise Break' turned out to be an underlying concept…

— Daniel Caesar

Entertainers are nothing special. Maybe we have a talent for singing a song, but other people have talents. I wish fans would…

— Eddy Arnold

Cause I'm carryin' your love with me From West Virginia down to Tennessee I'll be movin' with the good lord speed, carryin'…

— George Strait

It changes over the course of life, depending on how you're feeling. There's this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends…

— Bill Walton

There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws…

— Adrian Rogers

“Something is conscious of us. It listens as it plays upon the instruments that we are. It takes delight in the cacophony,…

— Dielle Ciesco

I've written a lot of wordy, erudite, pretentious songs, but believe it or not, I'm usually doing my damnedest to resist the…

— Peter Blegvad

Phillip is a repository of random snatches of film dialogue and song lyrics. To make room for all of it in his…

— Jonathan Tropper

You're letting such a fragile side of yourself out when you're creating or writing music. To do that with people who are…

— Alex Kapranos

I create music everywhere.

— Susan Tedeschi

Music itself is just music.

— MC Hammer

“Music is God's voice.”

— Brian Wilson

I'm always playing guitar.

— John 5

“They play like file clerks file.”

— Lauren Kessler

I really love singing.

— Andrea Corr

I'll always be a student of music.

— Vidya Vox

A life without songs

— Ayumi Hamasaki