Song Quotes · Page 523

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

— will.i.am

I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important…

— Sharon Van Etten

I don't know if I could write songs if it wasn't for the female race, to be honest with you.

— Christian Kane

We want our music to reach everybody, so we're using the Internet. Every kid today is online, and we want to make…

— Kailash Kher

Music has a lot in common with mathematics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to…

— Jascha Heifetz

If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over…

— Anonymous

I want to make music three-dimensional. I want to make a song also a painting, and a painting also a culinary experience.

— Benny Cassette

Our sound is really hard metal but looks cute, and in some parts of the song the lyrics are really cute.

— Suzuka Nakamoto

“Song for the Puberty Rite of a Girl Named Cowaka: A poor man takes the songs in his hand And drops them…

— Frances Densmore

The more people who come from musical backgrounds and go into promotion, production, songwriting, A&R, plus get their business head together, the…

— Harvey Mason, Jr

Technically, my first acting job was in one of my videos for a song called 'Retrospect For Life,' which Lauryn Hill directed…

— Common

Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means…

— Norah Jones

There are two things that really move me: music and acting. And I'm not talking about my music or watching myself as…

— Janet Jackson

During those times like in my early years as a writer I could actually write a song in ten minutes because all…

— Ben E. King

Everybody needs inspiration Everybody needs a song A beautiful melody When the nights are long 'cause there is no guarantee That this…

— Miley Cyrus

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd…

— Amy Winehouse

Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

— J Mascis

I just got into music very heavily as a kid and I pretty much knew I wanted to be a musician.

— Michael Penn

I'm not gonna ever announce that I'm going to do an album again. Waking up with that on your head almost doesn't…

— Skepta

Much of my music is inspired by what I heard at picnics and weddings and bar mitzvahs.

— Neil Sedaka

I'm just making fun music so you can let your guard down and enjoy it, don't worry about what's cool and what's…

— Girl Talk

I think that once an artist has proven herself and you sell lots of records, you should be compensated.

— Toni Braxton

One of the things that defined me is that I spoke in my songs very loudly, the negative messages, and I already…

— Anuel AA

Songs have been my greatest teachers and continue to be really important in my life.

— Mary Gauthier

Wish I could be there,wish I could see you smile. I could be there for just a while... then you'll see what…

— MEEE

I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.

— Meryl Streep

Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and…

— Richie Sambora

I like stuff that sounds big and full and makes your head trip and your body react.

— Taylor Hawkins

I think The Czars had an identity crisis, as we were five guys pulling in different musical directions.

— John Grant

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song…

— Levon Helm

The point of songs in theater is that you're supposed to end up in a different place than where you started.

— Barrett Wilbert Weed

I download music just like anybody else, but it's a weird relationship when you're a musician.

— Tim Hecker

We got a new song called 'Ashes in Your Mouth,' and it is NOT about a joint falling apart.

— Dave Mustaine

“Never More is neither our motto nor a refrain of our song. Let’s kiss and make up!”

— Lara Biyuts. Forever Jocelyn

The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person's opinion about it.

— Adam Levine

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

— Thomas Aquinas

Musically, I just like when people are knowledgeable about music and they can talk to you about it.

— M. Shadows

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you…

— Wynton Marsalis

I hate when I get pinned down to a genre. I have a sound, a lane I want to go down, but…

— Brynn Cartelli

Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those…

— Joe Perry