Song Quotes · Page 627

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

— Les Baxter

When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.

— Zedd

For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.

— Moby

The song of canaries Never varies, And when they're moulting They're pretty revolting.

— Ogden Nash

It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman…

— George Gershwin

My music has to do with imaginary things, so I took that concept and used the whole "the music is not the…

— Mister Lies

Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in…

— Charles Hazlewood

I've always listened to a wide variety of music, and I know that shows through my songwriting evolution.

— Jeongyeon

I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them,…

— Sonny Rollins

John Lennon was just one of us, another human just trying to get through the day, and help make tomorrow a little…

— Steve Landes

At 11, I went to live with my maternal nan and granddad temporarily, after my parents separated, and Nan would let me…

— Jools Holland

The main reason we understand what we're doing is because we're the individuals doing it. One of the things that surprises me…

— Matthew Healy

I do write. I actually do want to start my music as well. My sister and I are starting a band. I've…

— Kaitlyn Dever

I got started at a really young age. I was about two years old when I started playing the piano and around…

— Jackson Guthy

I do not buy CDs any more; I usually stream Internet radio. For movies, I hardly every buy any DVDS. I have…

— Oren Peli

This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager…

— Leonard Cohen

I grew up singing in church. My family owned funeral homes so I would sing for the occasional funeral, as well.

— Christopher Jackson

I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it.…

— David Friedman

“Alfonso absorbed the music playing. How comforting he found it, a piece of his cousin's soul immune to erasure, beyond invisibility, living,…

— Gar McVey-Russell

I have an ulcerated vocal chord. Can't speak or whisper for 7days. While directing...

— Bryan Singer

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

— Frank Zappa

People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the average person can't…

— Todd Rundgren

I'm changing my flow up so much on every song that you're not going to be able to compare me to nobody…

— Tiffany Foxx

Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.

— D. H. Lawrence

The first time I heard rock'n'roll on a big sound system would have been at a fairground at the seaside. That's a…

— John Cooper Clarke

I want to make sure I continue to make good music that my mom and everybody around me can be proud of.

— Ruben Studdard

I never want to write the same song twice as it's super important to me, I never want to make a safe…

— Ruel

Sam Phillips responded most to a song of mine called, "Hey Porter," which was on the first record.

— Johnny Cash

If you're a musician, you're a musician; you don't ever get that out of your bones.

— Alex Clare

The mind and body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs and music.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the point of view of…

— Troye Sivan

Being from Atlanta I grew up on Kilo Ali and Outkast... the only Biggie song I knew was 'Juicy.'

— Rich Homie Quan

“The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale" features Clapton, Nelson, Knopfler, Tom Petty, Albert Lee, John Mayer, Don White and Jim Keltner…

— Anonymous

Obviously [Black] Sabbath is definitely a huge name and of course deserving with Ozzy coming back.

— John Petrucci

My dad did a wonderful feat of memory and storytelling by taking T S Eliot's 'Four Quartets' on the road in a…

— Freddie Fox

There is something magical about being able to feel somebody. And that is something that has always moved me with music.

— Maria Brink

I'm definitely a singer-songwriter. I'm somewhere in the vein between Elliott Smith and Jack Johnson.

— Bryan Greenberg

We weren't the Temptations, but when we came out onstage, the people always gave us a special respect because our songs were…

— Curtis Mayfield

When I first began to learn to sing, it took me from three to four months to learn two simple hymns.

— Heber J. Grant

The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads…

— Michael Gira