Song Quotes · Page 665

There are a lot of different ways you can be a part of this music and love it and make a contribution…

— Jon Gordon

I feel that in the music industry there are so many artists it's easy to be forgotten because it's so cluttered.

— Big Daddy Kane

... all of the great sounds that James Burton and Jimmy Bryant were getting, came out of Telecasters

— Albert Lee

Remember that song that you let me listen to last time, well even though I didnt like it that much, because of…

— Josephine

Fighting to get up in the morning, fighting to get on stage, fighting to make music that makes people feel good when…

— Blackbear

“One can spot a fellow musician in any context, even amongst policemen. The craziest-eyed, unruliest-haired one, either hungry-skinny or jovial-portly.”

— David Mitchell

“My mom used to have her own hymnal. It was as marked up as her Bible. She sang in the church choir…

— Katherine Reay

Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Music is an act of creation. A musician gives life to a song, even if he or she didn't write it. I…

— Mark Delaney

When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was…

— Paul Weller

I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're…

— Nick Cave

A song playing comprises a very specific and vivid set of memory cues. Because the multiple-trace memory models assume that context is…

— Daniel Levitin

When it seems like the night will last forever, And there's nothing left to do but count the years, When the strings…

— Robert Hunter

Grief is a solitary journey. No one but you knows how great the hurt is. No one but you can know the…

— Helen Steiner Rice

The thought about changing my genre of music does cross my mind, but then I remember why I started making music in…

— Badshah

I heard Smokey Robinson was singing one of my songs on the radio the other day. Being in the presence of Mavis…

— Gregory Porter

“Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.”

— Abigail Biddinger

To us the music is the most important element and they lyrics are something that adds an extra element.

— Ron Mael

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without…

— Mark Twain

My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.

— Ricky Martin

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

— Rod Stewart

We would say, OK, the B section isn't good enough, let's rewrite that,' until we felt the song was great.

— Tony Kanal

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

— Neville Marriner

“Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”

— William Congreve

I'm a guitar player. I've carved out my own style of guitar music, so I don't look for inspiration with playing guitar.

— Jamie Hince

You’re the missing piece I need The song inside of me I need to find you I gotta find you

— Demi Lovato

Confusion starts to rhyme in this melody I sing. Questions filled my mind, puzzlement is all it brings.

— Cleo

John Bonham, probably the greatest drummer ever - all of us wanted to play drums like him.

— Vinnie Paul

I was genuinely happy when I wrote that song [Training Wheels] and very in love. That's a very rare emotion to evoke…

— Melanie Martinez

The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang…

— Shusaku Endo

Any of the bands that came out at the same time as us, they're either gone now, or they got just mega…

— Wayne Static

The thing for me though, is that songs are good depending on the memories I have with them.

— George Ezra

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter…

— Laurence Sterne

Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.

— Kenny G

When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make…

— Arca

'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

— Chip Esten

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius”

— Confucius

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

— Bill Frisell

There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.

— Rick Rubin

I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.

— Lola Kirke