Song Quotes · Page 663

Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end…

— Shawnee Smith

The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment

— Pythagoras

Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!

— J. K. Rowling

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

— Toru Takemitsu

“There are millions of songs in the world, and millions of ways to connect them into mixes. Making the connections is part…

— Rob Sheffield

When a different type of music is put in front of you, you can choose for yourself what you're supposed to like.

— Sigrid

I get asked if I mind when someone burns my music. I'm just flattered that people want to.

— Corey Smith

I love finding songs, going through them, tearing them apart, and seeing if I can find anything wrong with them.

— Randy Travis

“In one study, psychologists Tim Wilson and Jonathan Schooler had participants listen to a piece of music, Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Some…

— Eric Weiner

Working with Yahoo! allows us to give our fans a chance to listen to our songs, check out the video, purchase our…

— Isaac Hanson

“Radio One played “Ebony and Ivory,” a new song by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. The breakfast DJ Mike Read played it…

— Adrian McKinty

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or…

— Tom Glazer

Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want…

— Fred Durst

There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that…

— Al Yankovic

I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book…

— Emma Watson

Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for…

— Lester Bowie

During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed…

— Geezer Butler

We have high expectations and a high level of standard we try to reach in everything we do. Ideas get through if…

— James Righton

Music is my life… the lyrics are my story... for each time I hear the beats, I begin to live again

— Mercy Pheona

I was in the back of the car with my girlfriend, the Rascals came on the radio and I realized their song…

— Steven Van Zandt

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a…

— Jimmy Cliff

I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.

— Kid Rock

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

— James Blunt

“Don't die with your music still in you, play your music unencumbered. Should your guitar remain unstrung?”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

My third song I put out, it got a lot of shares on Facebook. I'm like 'OK, they digging it.'

— GloRilla

The song is very light-hearted, it's just a bit of fun. For a couple of tracks [the rest of the band] let…

— Brendon Urie

Oberst is one of those musicians that some people hate in a visceral, biological way.

— Ben Dolnick

Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention…

— Melissa Manchester

I was once sitting on a tube, and someone was playing my song so loudly through their ear phones next to me.…

— Sam Smith

But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that…

— Vanessa Carlton

I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think…

— Zach Condon

I feel like I'm always just trying to write better music and keep topping myself.

— Borns

I've always been in music. I started out in music, and I will continue to do music.

— Jacob Latimore

Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.

— Charles Kingsley

I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I'll do three versions of a song, then think, "Is the demo better?"

— Marc Almond

My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections.

— Zacky Vengeance

Hate and anger and disappointment and rage can be channeled in music into the most positive place.

— Brody Dalle

I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth…

— Kurt Vonnegut

So you can play if you wanna nigga it's goin' down and I don't need a manager cuz I don't trust a…

— Yo Gotti

I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as…

— Idris Elba