Song Quotes · Page 535

I'm always trying to think of something clever and fun to do with the music. There's so many cool things musicians and…

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

— Candy Crowley

If you aren't faithful to your music or your people or your work, then who will care anymore?

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You dont love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only…

— Fad Ibra

Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal

— Pierre Boulez

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring

— Nelly Furtado

Every day I feel different about music, but what never changes is my love for it.

— Kid Rock

Not many people come out of a big band as the lead singer/songwriter and making a record, and all of a sudden…

— Richard Ashcroft

The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so…

— Yoko Ono

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know…

— Chet Atkins

When I first got involved in the underground metal scene in '82, '83, there were only about five or six major Death…

— Chuck Schuldiner

I think there's a curiosity that can make you feel anxious as to what the world's going to make of what you're…

— Jeff Tweedy

My brother was a drummer, and he was always, like, smashing the kit around when I was a kid, and my dad…

— Sam Fender

I think I've gotten a pretty fair shake in the music press over the years. The only think that kind of irks…

— Thalia Zedek

'The Awakening' is meant to be listened to in its entirety. Every song ultimately explores a character dealing with life, making mistakes,…

— Sonny Sandoval

At the beginning of each project, I like to create a palette of sound for that particular project.

— Ramin Djawadi

You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the…

— Miles Davis

“Music's a powerful thing. A song can change your mood. Make a memory. One song can change your whole life.”

— Kent Moran

“All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago.”

— Bryant McGill

My biggest inspiration was always early Iron Maiden, because it was the only band I knew for some time, and, as we…

— Varg Vikernes

Ideas are what we make a living out of. Whether it's a song or a talent search, we are in the business…

— Shankar Mahadevan

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided…

— Iris DeMent

I think people are entitled to have a new album by Wilson Pickett in their homes every year.

— Wilson Pickett

My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in…

— Lindi Ortega

In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess…

— Paul Weller

I wanted to make an album that would make other people feel the way I felt listening to 'Melodrama.'

— Maisie Peters

The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your…

— Shelby Lynne

Songs are like anything else - they dictate to you which ones go together and which ones don't.

— Brian Fallon

As my exquisite Life winds down, I shall hand you my Candle. Take it out into the World, so others may know…

— Eric Nickel

Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.

— Elvis Costello

The record business. It’s exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they won’t take care of…

— Dr. Dre

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

— Anton Corbijn

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.

— Helmut Walcha

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.

— Bruno Mars

I encourage everybody to get into music because it's therapeutic, it keeps you out of the way, and it's lucrative if you…

— Benny the Butcher

There's nothing that makes me happier than singing, and there's nothing that makes me sometimes sadder than singing.

— Bridget Everett

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's…

— Daniel Barenboim

I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.

— Caitlin Rose