Song Quotes · Page 622

Our criminal institutions are full of creeps like you who do wrong things, and many of them were driven to these crimes…

— Frank Zappa

I'm driven by music. It's in my blood, and I've never been able to stay away from it for too long.

— Tommy Lee

In everything I do, my principal inspiration is the 1996 Belle & Sebastian album 'If You're Feeling Sinister.'

— Sally Rooney

I love singing, and whenever I can sing some more vocal leads, I always covet the chance.

— Nancy Wilson

Songs are just like your kids. You love them all, and they're all different. I can't really pick out favourites.

— Kris Kristofferson

I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because…

— Conor Oberst

I could read music and sing all the right notes at the right time. And over time, I literally found my voice,…

— Caroline Shaw

I just didn't really relate to Kurt Cobain. There was nothing very glamorous about him.

— Justin Tranter

God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us…

— Khalil Gibran

There were actually times where I thought, 'Do people even remember us? Are people gonna be interested in hearing what we put…

— Ray Toro

When I was in the marching band, I used to take my snare drum and turn it over and use my drumstick…

— E-40

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he…

— Elliott Carter

We were proud of our first two records, but the parameters were pretty narrow. We didn't have full drums, for example. There…

— Ted Dwane

The first time I actually heard any of the Beatles' music it was in a car. I think it was the, the…

— Jeff Barry

You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living…

— Robin Williams

Some people will totally get restless, since you can make demos pretty easy. It's not unreasonable for someone to say, "All right,…

— Craig Finn

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

— Joe Strummer

In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different…

— Itzhak Perlman

It's weird because it almost takes something like Chickenfoot to make me realize why I was playing music in the first place.…

— Michael Anthony

Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.

— Saul Williams

I look at the lyrics, and if that's something honest for me at the moment, I'll sing it.

— Ysabella Brave

I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs].

— Leonard Cohen

If I had to choose a song to listen to before I died, it would be Simone singing Começar de novo.

— Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

— Michel Legrand

I make negative music, but I also make positive music because that's what thrown at me with life.

— Tyga

I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.

— Antonio Carlos Jobim

I always say, 'If it looks good on a T-shirt, it would probably be a pretty cool title or cool song.'

— Cole Swindell

Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction…

— Albert Einstein

Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.

— Roberta Flack

Songs from the theatre can be taken and put on record in a commercial and contemporary way, be reinvented and become standout…

— Michael Ball

I like the idea that songs can communicate in a way no other media can. That's why I write them.

— David Longstreth

Writing music - particularly music without lyrics - calls almost exclusively on the subconscious.

— Jon Hopkins

Some of my favorite songs--and I don't know if this is the right terminology--are white-boy classics.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Music taught me how to always be patient and focused, and to train the little concentration in myself.

— Hiromi

Every time I hear a song that reminds me of my ex I have a strong erg to punch the radio.

— Ambri Bright

I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think…

— Tyga

“Speaking is like conducting an orchestra; but instead of music, you are directing emotions.”

— Anonymous

I don't know if this is a good thing to say, but the musical obsession has almost shifted to a creative obsession…

— Erol Alkan

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose…

— Alicia Witt

Life is like a music..sometimes it gets to hight pitch or sometimes low…life is beautiful...live your life your way and u'll find…

— Maclon S Fernandes