Song Quotes · Page 589

I'd love to travel around the country to clubs and hear my song playing and get on the mic.

— Scheana Shay

I won't be the kind of artist speaking in riddles all the time - it will be lyrics that make sense the…

— Rex Orange County

You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad…

— Scott McClanahan

To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.

— John Burroughs

I think that music is the only thing that is going to change minds and build bridges.

— Snow Tha Product

There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child…

— Jake Shimabukuro

But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid…

— Ed O'Brien

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

— John Mellencamp

I always travel with my guitar. I take it myself - with me in my hand. I don't like to send it…

— Juanes

“Later that evening, he sat in the bar, pint in one hand, pipe in the other, with good food beneath his belt…

— Barbara Anderson

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy whenit departs too far from the dance;…

— Anonymous

“Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of…

— Leo Tolstoy

I formed Humble Pie when I was only 18. We were one of the first 'supergroups,' with Steve Marriott of The Small…

— Peter Frampton

“Judy, I read that you said your first memory was music. Music that fills up a home. And one day, suddenly the…

— Ava Dellaira

The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days…

— Leonard Slatkin

I am really not a speedcuber. My best time when I was practicing was about a minute. Usually people say if you…

— Erno Rubik

Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece…

— Claudio Arrau

What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.

— Andrew Bird

I write about things I care about, like any songwriter, whether it's a personal thing or not.

— Declan McKenna

And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy…

— William Blake

I never really wanted to base success on charts and chart positioning. For me, it's really about the shows and seeing them…

— Dua Lipa

I've kind of shut myself off to a lot of new music because I don't want to be influenced by it.

— Hoodie Allen

In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive…

— Q-Tip

I suppose that it doesn't matter whether a song is written or sung by a man or a woman. If the sentiment…

— Emmy Rossum

I've been making music since I was damn near born. For me to be a producer and be on my sixteenth year…

— Justin Smith

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

— John Flansburgh

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.

— Luciano Berio

They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Like some fruits in due season a so Jr. Gong come and mi deh 'round dis ya music from mi small and…

— Junior Delgado

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough

— Isaac Rosenberg

I ain't sayin she's a gold digger, but she ain't messing with no broke white guy who's afraid to finish the rest…

— Anonymous

I am not a technical drummer at all. I'm more from the Keith Moon/Lars Ulrich school of, 'Hey, look at me!' I…

— Mike Portnoy

I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island.

— Billy Bush

I grew up in the church around my mum singing in the choir and my dad leading worship. Music runs in my…

— Raye

Ive realized that the Beatles got itwrong. Love isnt all we needlove is all there is.

— Hemantsmarty

Music's always been in my home. My dad plays guitar, and I grew up listening to cumbia and salsa and boleros.

— Jessie Reyez

Long live the reckless and the brave I don't think I want to be saved My song has not been sung So…

— All Time Low

I'm just really interested, when a band plays and they think they sucked from a band perspective.

— Pat Smear