Song Quotes · Page 576

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material…

— Rebecca West

On the surface, being a musician can look pretty glamorous. But so much work goes into it.

— Sid Sriram

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but…

— Billy Corgan

When we started off, we weren't even thinking of being a global band. We just ended up becoming that.

— Steve Harris

Music will be my mistress, loving like a whore, Lennon is a genius living in every pore.

— Queen (band

My whole experience with the Beatles was really no different from any other band, except it was the Beatles.

— Glyn Johns

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

My music is the foundation of everything that I do, and my fans make it possible for me to keep recording.

— Xzibit

The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's…

— Jason Mraz

I love creating. I am addicted to the drug of creation and creating things. I get a little depressed when I am…

— Mat Kearney

I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you…

— Gary Calamar

I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones…

— Dee Dee Ramone

Rush like a river from the highest mountain, drink from the fountain and stop your counting. What kind of wine does he…

— Trevor Hall

I am honored I have performed 'Quizas Quizas Quizas' with Jennifer Lopez, an eclectic artist who thanks to the charismatic power of…

— Andrea Bocelli

It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs. When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew…

— Bob Dylan

DJ-ing itself is not just about playing songs. The art of DJ-ing is presenting new songs to the crowd that they haven't…

— TyDi

“Romance is for you, who have always known that life's melody and harmony orchestrate from love played by the human heart.”

— Joss Landry

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

— Samuel Barber

This is the city that taught me how to write all of these cool songs. Yeah, you guys definitely need a royalty.

— Katy Perry

The band may be small in terms of numbers with only two members, but Halifax rockers The Town Heroes are mighty in…

— Ken Kelly

I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote…

— Neil Diamond

There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.

— Martin Gore

Doing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.

— Chip Esten

I can't possibly overstate how much influence Rush had on me as a young teenager. I would say from about 1981 to…

— Mike Portnoy

All of my experiences as a singer will be of good use long into the future, when I get old enough to…

— BoA

There's a lot of ridiculous hypocrisy about sex in films today. And that's one of the reasons why I made 9 Songs,…

— Michael Winterbottom

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

— Fred Allen

Research is always a high priority in my fiction. Songs, fashion, politics, television, movies, trends - I try to get those details…

— Mitali Perkins

If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have…

— Taylor Dayne

When I write songs, I try to remove myself a little bit. Obviously, they're very personal to me, but it feels easier…

— Hozier

Sounding like I have agency in a song is important to me. I want to feel empowered by the music.

— Kelela

Bands have good nights, and they have bad nights. I'm not going to cover up anything or pretend. For me, personally, that's…

— John Corabi

I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time.

— Ryan Adams

I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.

— John Fogerty

As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change.

— John Feldmann

We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving.

— Neil Young

I started playing the drums at five years old and used to listen to a lot of screamo bands like Asking Alexandria,…

— Rich Brian

How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn't get exposed to.

— Jerry Garcia

He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

— Arthur Golden