Song Quotes · Page 549

I think music is a great way of helping people to get to know a country's culture.

— Anitta

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think that the people who put caps and the people who put genres on music are the people who are killing…

— Austin Carlile

You couldnt get a job playing in a club unless you played so much Top 40 and so many Beatles songs. I…

— Gregg Allman

But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.

— John Milton

Hindi film songs are the best of everything - whether it is lyrics, melody and talented singers.

— Badshah

The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.

— Richard Wagner

For 'Black Beatles' to be so true to us and our sound - we weren't chasing a sound - it solidifies that…

— Mike Will Made It

By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean…

— Maya Angelou

Punk's really cool because it's very inclusive of all types, which I like. And I would submit that even though people talk…

— Milo Aukerman

Sure there are people who do everything "I do my own beats, my own lyrics, my own mixing, my own mastering, my…

— Grieves

I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being…

— Cameron Crowe

I always tell people that, just to be a bad jazz musician, you have to be better than most musicians. The worst…

— Robert Glasper

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you…

— Brian Eno

My concern with this approach is that music becomes a substance devoid of people. It's a consumer model of what music is:…

— Vijay Iyer

But it's all about confidence and allowing yourself to put your personality into it. I really am the worst singer on the…

— Drew Barrymore

"Macarena" is a great song. If music is something you can remember - the worst crime music can do is to be…

— Fred Armisen

To me, the music industry doesn't exist, it's like the devil, it doesn't exist if you don't believe in it.

— Princess Nokia

“You are my body, my soul, the energy by which I live, and the song in my heart.”

— Keri Arthur

I think it's not only Babymetal's sound but also the fact that we dance to metal that represents a new way of…

— Moa Kikuchi

I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.

— John Lennon

They [The Beatles ] were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs…

— Lemmy Kilmister

I must for a time part, I shall leave you all, My Beautiful Heart. Keep it safe, Hear it's song, I shall…

— Eric Nickel

... hearing Andres Segovia in person was quite a revelation ... It was a knockout...

— Julian Bream

I love jazz and blues, where there's a structure, but a lot of the cool stuff is veering off the page and…

— Nick Nurse

“Megan, I’m pretty sure none of my family is going to break out into song like in a Bollywood movie tonight,” he…

— Katie Ashley

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

— Pat Metheny

I like to get a vibe first, then a melody and really beat up the melody for a while, then try and…

— Matt Squire

Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter.

— Mark Herman

“It is a melody to me. You are a song, Lenore, harmony and discord. I am learning to sing it.”

— Kat Dunn

Our band was different. We were still playing rock 'n' roll, but we had an entirely different sound: just one guitar, but…

— Dave Clark

I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.

— Samuel Barber

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

— Duke Ellington

I love the Warrant songs. I wrote them from the heart, but I have a side to my songwriting that a lot…

— Jani Lane

I don't want to sing boring pop songs - I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.

— Victoria Justice

I don't think that a lot of my favorite producers or bands would produce our albums or even play on them, unfortunately.

— Chad Gilbert

The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down…

— Calvin Harris

In my world, if you want to make a record to make money, you're already off to a bad start.

— John McLaughlin

I'm a music lover and I hate to hate on any music because people are just doing their best.

— Bridget Everett

To be honest, just trying to get everybody together in one room to get our picture taken for the back of the…

— David Pajo